Award Abstract #0521566
Acquisition of Beowulf Cluster for a Center for Computational Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz

NSF Org:	AST Division of Astronomical Sciences
Initial Amendment Date:	September 16, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	April 6, 2006
Award Number:	0521566
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Andrew Clegg AST Division of Astronomical Sciences MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Start Date:	September 15, 2005
Expires:	August 31, 2007 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$1100000
Investigator(s):	Stanford Woosley woosley@ucolick.org (Principal Investigator) Joel Primack (Co-Principal Investigator) Gary Glatzmaier (Co-Principal Investigator) Donald Gavel (Co-Principal Investigator) Pascale Garaud (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	University of California-Santa Cruz 1156 High Street SANTA CRUZ, CA 95064 831/459-5278
NSF Program(s):	ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES & INSTRM
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):	OTHR, 1206, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	V969, 1218

ABSTRACT

AST-0521566/Woosley, UCSC

This project will provide the necessary supercomputing resources to study roughly a dozen grand-challenge problems in astrophysics, planetary science, and telescope instrument design at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Principal users would include approximately 25 graduate students and postdocs. The equipment proposed is a 280-node Beowulf Linux cluster having two AMD 246 64 bit processors per node. Each node will also have 4 Gbytes of memory and the overall machine will be served by 20 TB of disk storage in a fast RAID system. A variety of highly parallelized, production-ready codes will be fielded on this system to simulate cosmology, structure formation, supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, magnetohydrodynamics, planetary formation and structure, planetesimal collisions, and adaptive optics.

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