ARCHIVED: Petascale computing on the TeraGrid: Multicore Optimization of an Astrophysical Simulation Code using Performance Annotations

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Note: The project described in this document is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) to use TeraGrid's petascale environments for highly advanced scientific analysis and simulations that advance the frontiers of scientific and engineering research. For more, see ARCHIVED: Petascale computing on the TeraGrid.

This project will demonstrate use of performance annotations to optimize the FLASH astrophysical simulation code for use with computers containing more than one thousand multicore processors. The work will focus on three code units of broad interest to the astrophysical simulation community, hydrodynamics (Euler equations), particle transport, and gravitation (Poisson's equation).

For more, see award abstract #0804982 on the National Science Foundation (NSF) web site.