Day 0: 28th April: Tutorials

All tutorials will be held in room 101 of the Frey building. Separate registration is required for the tutorials, which are free.

• An Introduction to Cactus 9am - 12pm
• AMR with Carpet 1pm - 2.30pm
• Advanced Visualisation 2.45 pm - 3.45 pm
• Coffee break in Frey 213
• Generating thorns from Mathematica 4.15 pm - 5.15pm

Day 1: 29th April: Applications

• Welcoming Session: Life Sciences Auditorium, A101
  • Welcoming Remarks (Ed Seidel) 8.40
  • Plenary: A View of High Performance Computing and the Computational Grid (Jack Dongarra) 9am pdf
• Coffee break 10am - 11am
• Session I : International Room, Union Building
  • Cactus and the CCT (Ed Seidel) pdf
  • Introduction to Cactus (Tom Goodale) pdf sxi
  • Cactus and KISTI (Yoonsik Kim) pdf
• Lunch 12.30 - 2pm
• Session II : International Room, Union Building
  • Projects using Cactus (Gabrielle Allen) ppt
  • Using Cactus for Discrete Quantum Gravity Computations (David Rideout) pdf
  • A Mass Spectrometry Toolkit in Cactus (Alexander Schilling) ppt
• Coffee break 4pm - 5pm
• Session III : Life Sciences Auditorium, A101
  • Cactus as a tool for Rendering Systems: invitation for suggestions and solutions (Stacey Simmons) ppt
  • Development of an Einstein-GRMHD code for GRB progenitor models (Ken-Ichi Nishikawa)
    • Talk
    • apf12jedmzxn.avi
    • ADVXZR11.AVI
  • Cactus Applications to Characteristic Evolution (Maria Cristina Babiuc) pdf
• Dinner 7pm

Day 2: 30th April: Applications and Infrastructure

• Session IV : International Room, Union Building
  • Cactus and Frameworks (Tom Goodale) 8.30 am pdf sxi
  • Cactus IO and Visualisation (Thomas Radke) pdf sxi
  • Toward Relativistic Hydrodynamics on Adaptive Meshes (Joel Tohline) ppt
• Coffee break 10am - 10.30am
• Session V : International Room, Union Building
  • The Method of Lines in Cactus (Ian Hawke)
  • Mesh refinement with Carpet (Erik Schnetter) pdf
  • Using Cactus for Task Farming (Tom Goodale) pdf sxi
• Lunch 12.30 - 2pm
• Session VI : International Room, Union Building
  • AMR with PAGH (Randy Wolfmeyer) pdf ppt
  • Kranc: Mathematica to Thorns (Sascha Husa) pdf
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics - Modular Elements for Cactus (Sumanta Acharya)
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
    • ciliarow.avi
    • ruston_impeller.avi
    • stat_rot_omz4.avi
    • stat_rot_p4.avi
    • stirtank_vectors.avi
  • Cactus Support for Astrophysics (Dennis Pollney) pdf
• Coffee break 4.30pm - 5.30pm
• Session VII: Life Sciences Auditorium, A101
  • Spectral Elements and Parallelization (Jason Ventrella)
    • Talk
    • phi1_phi2.mpg
    • soln_psi.mpg
  • Multiple Patches for Black Hole and Other Evolutions (Manuel Tiglio)
  • Talk
  • cubed.png
  • cubed2.wmv
  • movie3a_fixed.mpg

Day 3: 1st May: Development Plans

This day will start with some introductory material, and then will consist of a set of discussions focused on particular topics. There will be opportunities during the previous days to propose further topics.

All meetings this day will be in the International Room of the Union Building.

• 4.0 Release Plan (Tom Goodale) 8.30 am pdf sxi
• Core Infrastructure Future Developments (Tom Goodale)
• Coffee break 10am - 10.30
• Multi-model discussion
• Lunch 12.30 - 1.30pm
• Unstructured mesh discussion
• Adaptive Mesh Refinement discussion
• Particle methods discussion
• Spectral methods discussion
• Coffee break 4.20pm - 4.30pm
• Generic Language Support
• Monte Carlo
• General discussion(s)