Gabrielle Allen
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany

The Cactus Code: A framework for parallel scientific computing

Abstract:

• Cactus philosophy, design requirements and their realisation
• The parallel layer in Cactus
• How to run an application within Cactus
  • Cactus Configuration Language
  • Example application
• Making use of the Cactus Computational Toolkit
  • testsuites, parallel IO, elliptic solvers and more
• Connections with other projects
  • HDF5, PETSc, Globus, GrACE, Autopilot, ...
• Using Cactus on SGI machines