Cactus Institutions

Here is a list of institutions and groups connected with the support and/or development of the Cactus code.

• Center for Computation and Technology at LSU: The current home of Cactus Code.
• Albert Einstein Institut: The birth place of the Cactus Code.
• Washington University Gravity Group: Best Buddy in developing Cactus since the beginning.
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications: Support and development for the computational layers of the cactus code (aka the Cactus Computational Toolkit). Host of the monster simulations.
• Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin : Visualization, IO, Distributed computing and all the cutting edge stuff.
• International Relativity Group: A bit outdated web site hosting cactus simulation movies and more.
• Argonne National Laboratory: More cutting edge distributed metacomputing and collaborarory future

Software Links

• Perl: Can anybody live without it?
• Gnu: make, CVS, gnu C++, etc...great!!
• CVS: CVS
• Cygwin: GNU utilities for Windows
• MPI: The Message Passing Interface standard
• LAM: Implementation of MPI
• Globus: Distributed computing infrastructure
• HDF: Hierarchical Data Format
• FlexIO: API for storing multidimensional scientific data
• IEEEIO: Library for storing multidimensional scientific data
• LCA Vision: Free scientific visualisation tool
• Amira: 3D visualization and modelling system
• 4D2: 3D visualization
• PETSc: Portable, extensible toolkit for scientific computation
• GrACE: Grid adaptive computational engine
• Autopilot:
Real time adaptive resource control
• OpenDX: Open Source software package for data visualization
• grdoc: Automatic code documentation system

Links to the administrative and support software we use:

• GNATS, the GNU Problem Report Management System, for bug or feature rquest reports
• CVS
• Mailman, for mailing lists
• latex2html, for converting documentation into web pages.
• grdoc
• Apache

Cactus Photographs

• Cactus Is Coming (John Shalf, San Francisco)
• The Cactus Market (Gabrielle, California)
• The Cactus Motel (Gabrielle, California)
• The Cactus Pub (Gabrielle, Poland)
• The Cactus Cafe (Gabrielle, Castro, SF, USA)
• Cactus Jack's (Gabrielle, Myrtle Beach, USA)

Wild and Wacky Links

• The Cactus Concentration Poem
• The Cactus Pain Poem
• The Cactus Pricks
• The Code of the Cactus
• The Cactus Cup ... presented by the Gravity Brothers
• The Cactus tipple: Tequila
• Recommended reading: Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns
• Cactus offers help for hangovers