{"634658":{"#nid":"634658","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Physics Researchers Awarded $2.3 Million to Develop NSF Einstein Toolkit for Astrophysics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo School of Physics professors are part of a multi-institution effort to provide scientists with the best computational resources for a new era of relativistic astrophysics \u0026ndash; an era that now includes measurements of gravitational waves caused by black hole collisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $2.3 million through its \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/funding\/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505505\u0022\u003ECyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovations\u003C\/a\u003E (CSSI) program to an existing collaborative effort between Georgia Tech, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rochester Institute of Technology, Louisiana State University, and West Virginia University to further develop the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/einsteintoolkit.org\/about.html\u0022\u003EEinstein Toolkit\u003C\/a\u003E. The new funding will put UIUC as the lead investigating institution; Georgia Tech had been the lead during a previous funding round.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe project at Georgia Tech is led by co-principal investigators and School of Physics professors\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/The project at Georgia Tech is led by co-principal investigators Pablo Laguna, professor and chair of the School of Physics,\u00a0and Deirdre Shoemaker, both with the Center for Relativistic Astrophysics in the School of Physics.\u0022\u003EPablo Laguna\u003C\/a\u003E, who is also the school\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;chair,\u0026nbsp;and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/deirdre-shoemaker\u0022\u003EDeirdre Shoemaker\u003C\/a\u003E. Both are also with Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Relativistic Astrophysics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Einstein Toolkit is a community-driven open source ecosystem that provides computational tools to solve Einstein\u0026rsquo;s equations of general relativity, and\u0026nbsp;to advance research in relativistic astrophysics and gravitational wave physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research team aims to address current and future challenges in modeling sources of gravitational waves such as the collisions of black holes and neutron stars. The main goal of the effort supported by this award will be to improve the scalability of the software and expand the science addressed with the toolkit. The project stems from a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=1550461\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003Eprevious NSF grant\u003C\/a\u003E for collaborative research in community planning for scalable cyberinfrastructure to support multi-messenger astrophysics (gravitational waves, neutrinos, gamma and X-rays, along with traditional\u0026nbsp;observations from telescopes and space probes). That grant was\u0026nbsp;awarded to Laguna in 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.gatech.edu\/gravitational-physics\/\u0022\u003EEinstein Toolkit\u003C\/a\u003E is utilized by many groups across six continents, and is developed and supported in a distributed, collaborative manner. Its focus on community-based development has resulted in a large user base \u0026mdash; to date, 282 registered users from 194 different groups and 40 countries. In addition, the toolkit supports simulations providing information on gravitational waveforms for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ligo.caltech.edu\/\u0022\u003ELaser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory\u003C\/a\u003E (LIGO).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;OAC is pleased to support community-driven software platforms that advance research in relativistic astrophysics that are relevant to Multi-Messenger Astrophysics,\u0026quot; says Dr. Manish Parashar, office director for the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) at NSF.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2003893\u0026amp;HistoricalAwards=false\u0022\u003ERead more\u003C\/a\u003E about the collaborative frameworks research project, The Einstein Toolkit Ecosystem: Enabling Fundamental Research in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"NSF awards $2.3 million to effort led by Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker for the development of the Einstein Toolkit Ecosystem: Enabling Fundamental Research in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo Georgia Tech physicists, Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker,\u0026nbsp;are part of a new National Science Foundation award to continue development of the Einstein Toolkit, a collection of scientist-shared computational resources for advancing studies of relativistic astrophysics and gravitational wave physics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"NSF awards $2.3 million to effort led by Pablo Laguna and Deirdre Shoemaker for the development of the Einstein Toolkit Ecosystem: Enabling Fundamental Research in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics"}],"uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2020-04-22 20:10:28","changed_gmt":"2020-04-23 18:45:51","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2020-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2020-04-23T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634659":{"id":"634659","type":"image","title":"Figure 1 Simulation of the merger of two neutron stars detected by LIGO using the Einstein Toolkit. 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