Yearly Archives: 2011
GPU Papers
- (abs, pdf) Fluke et al., Astrophysical Supercomputing with GPUs: Critical Decisions for Early Adopters
- (abs, pdf) Schive et al., GAMER: a GPU-Accelerated Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code for Astrophysics
- (abs, pdf) Wang et al., Adaptive Mesh Fluid Simulations on GPU
- (abs, pdf) Jonsson & Primack, Accelerating Dust Temperature Calculations with Graphics … Continue Reading ››
09 Sept 2011
08 Sept 2011
AMD 16-core CPUs now shipping
AMD just announced that their 16-core Opteron "Interlagos" processors are now in production. First they will be shipped to retailers for testing in their platform, and then later in Q4 they will be available to the public. This is great news for the group because our new 512-core cluster will be based on the Interlagos … Continue Reading ››
07 Sept 2011
- (abs, pdf) Kruijssen et al., The dynamical state of stellar structure in star-forming regions
- (abs, pdf) Revaz & Jablonka, The Dynamical and Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with GEAR
- (abs, pdf) Robertson & Ellis, Connecting the Gamma Ray Burst Rate and the Cosmic Star Formation History: Implications for Reionization and … Continue Reading ››
05 Sept 2011
yt-2.2 Released
The yt team has released version 2.2. The major addition to this release is the GUI Reason that uses web browsers as a platform to interact with your local or remote data. For information, read their announcement!
Cover image on Science News
Let's start out the news feed with something big. A fantastic rendering of one of our simulations made the July 30th cover of Science News! The associated article does an excellent job in describing the current state of the field. This beautiful visualization was … Continue Reading ›› 02 Sept 2011
- (abs, pdf) Riebe et al., The MultiDark Database: Release of the Bolshoi and MultiDark Cosmological Simulations
- (abs, pdf) de la Rosa et al., The link between the Star Formation History and [alpha/Fe]
- (abs, pdf) Hibon et al., Search for z~6.96 Ly-alpha emitters with Magellan/IMACS in the COSMOS field
- (abs, pdf) … Continue Reading ››