Development Projects: Applications
Projects based on developing applications for Cactus feed
directly into enhancing the code base, through testing,
bug reporting, and development of computational
tools. Here we list some of the projects we know of that
are using and contributing to the Cactus community.
Application Domains
| Numerical Relativity |
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Cactus is widely used as a programming framework in
the Numerical Relativity community, and the standard
release includes the CactusEinstein
arrangement which includes Initial Data, Evolvers
and Analysis thorns for the evolution of black holes
and gravitational waves.
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International Numerical Relativity Group
The numerical relativity group at the
Albert Einstein Insitute has developed the Cactus Relativity
Toolkit providing initial data, evolution and analysis thorns for
simulation relativistic spacetimes.
Washington University Relativity Group
Researchers at Washington University have developed a suite of
thorns for simulating Neutron Stars within the framework of
General Relativity.
Penn State Numerical Relativity Group
The Penn State numerical relativity group uses Cactus as
computational infrastructure for it's Maya code
for 3D evolutions of spacetime.
Zeus
The Laboratory for Computation Astrophysics (LCA) at the
NCSA are porting their successful
Zeus code to Cactus.
Europe Neutron Star Network
The EU has funded a network of ten European
institutions to develop thorns for modelling Neutron
Stars.
Lazarus Project at University of Texas, Brownsville
The Lazarus Project
combines perturbative theory with
full 3D numerical relativity calculations with Cactus to
produce extended gravitational waveforms.
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