11-27-2006/Cactus Code
The Sidney Fernbach Award is one of the most prestigious awards given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE.)
Ed Seidel won the 2006 Sidney Fernbach Award for his work with Cactus and Black Holes. He received one of the highest honors in computational science at the annual Supercomputing Conference in Tampa, Fla. on Nov. 15.
Seidel gave a keynote address on his research at the conference. He was honored for his work to develop collaborative, high-performance computing approaches to solve complex problems in physics, such as Einstein’s equations of general relativity, specifically for colliding black holes, which was the subject of his speech.
In his speech, Seidel discussed how developing the software needed to solve these problems has advanced breakthroughs in grid computing and high-performance computing for other academic disciplines with similar complex challenges, such as fluid dynamics and coastal sciences.
Using the high-performance software that Seidel and the CCT researchers developed to model black hole collisions will enable researchers to make predictions on what gravitational waves would look like, and the supercomputing technology at CCT allows teams of researchers from different fields to work together at mapping the collisions.
Offering scientists a model for understanding what gravitational waves from black hole collisions look like will ultimately lead to breakthroughs in physics and astronomy, Seidel said.
Among the past recipients are John B. Bell (2005), Jack J. Dongarra (2003), Michael L. Norman (1999) and Phillip Collela (1998).
The Sidney Fernbach Award is one of the most prestigious awards given by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE.)
Ed Seidel won the 2006 Sidney Fernbach Award for his work with Cactus and Black Holes. He received one of the highest honors in computational science at the annual Supercomputing Conference in Tampa, Fla. on Nov. 15.
Seidel gave a keynote address on his research at the conference. He was honored for his work to develop collaborative, high-performance computing approaches to solve complex problems in physics, such as Einstein’s equations of general relativity, specifically for colliding black holes, which was the subject of his speech.
In his speech, Seidel discussed how developing the software needed to solve these problems has advanced breakthroughs in grid computing and high-performance computing for other academic disciplines with similar complex challenges, such as fluid dynamics and coastal sciences.
Using the high-performance software that Seidel and the CCT researchers developed to model black hole collisions will enable researchers to make predictions on what gravitational waves would look like, and the supercomputing technology at CCT allows teams of researchers from different fields to work together at mapping the collisions.
Offering scientists a model for understanding what gravitational waves from black hole collisions look like will ultimately lead to breakthroughs in physics and astronomy, Seidel said.
Among the past recipients are John B. Bell (2005), Jack J. Dongarra (2003), Michael L. Norman (1999) and Phillip Collela (1998).
Publish Date:
11-27-2006
