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Fall 1998
Cactus used in Supercomputing 98: Using tightly coupled supercomputers in Europe and America, an intercontinental, distributed simulation of the full 3D Einstein equations of general relativity was performed, calculating the collision of black holes and neutron stars. The simulation itself was distributed across supercomputers on both continents, utilizing Globus, and was controlled and displayed live on a Immersadesk Virtual Reality system at SC'98 in Orlando, FL. For more information checkout the these pages: SC98 and Alliance 98
Fall 1998
Heinz-Billing-Preis 1998: The Heinz-Billing-Preis-1998 was awarded to Edward Seidel in recognition of his group's work in scientific computing including the Cactus Code. This award is given by the Max-Billing-Society to promote scientific computing within the Max-Planck Society. Follow the link for further information on the Heinz-Billing-Preis.
June 15, 1998
Cactus scales on NCSA NT Supercluster This week, the Cactus code scaled nearly linearly on the NCSA Windows-NT based Supercluster. As shown in talks given by NCSA director Larry Smarr at several institutes and conferences in Europe this week, the code achieved speedups above 120 on 128 processors. The scaling performance was very similar to the NCSA 128 processor Origin 2000 (although the Origin 2000 was about 2.5 times faster per processor due to aggressive Cactus optimizations on the O2K).
Spring 1998
Cactus 3.0 Released