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20042023
most citedThe Einstein Toolkit: A Community Computational Infrastructure for Relativistic Astrophysics

587 citations · 1.8k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.SE2023★ 4 cited

Foundational Competencies and Responsibilities of a Research Software Engineer: Current State and Suggestions for Future Directions

Florian Goth, Renato Alves, Matthias Braun +20

The term Research Software Engineer, or RSE, emerged a little over 10 years ago as a way to represent individuals working in the research community but focusing on software develop…

cs.AI2022

Need for Design Patterns: Interoperability Issues and Modelling Challenges for Observational Data

Trupti Padiya, Frank Löffler, Friederike Klan

Interoperability issues concerning observational data have gained attention in recent times. Automated data integration is important when it comes to the scientific analysis of obs…

cs.LG2020★ 1 cited

Machine Learning Pipelines: Provenance, Reproducibility and FAIR Data Principles

Sheeba Samuel, Frank Löffler, Birgitta König-Ries

Machine learning (ML) is an increasingly important scientific tool supporting decision making and knowledge generation in numerous fields. With this, it also becomes more and more…

gr-qc2019★ 49 cited

Numerical-relativity simulations of long-lived remnants of binary neutron star mergers

Roberto De Pietri, Alessandra Feo, José A. Font +3

We analyze the properties of the gravitational wave signal emitted after the merger of a binary neutron star system when the remnant survives for more than a 80 ms (and up to 140ms…

gr-qc2018★ 43 cited

Convective Excitation of Inertial Modes in Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Roberto De Pietri, Alessandra Feo, José A. Font +4

We present the first very long-term simulations (extending up to ~140 ms after merger) of binary neutron star mergers with piecewise polytropic equations of state and in full gener…

cs.DC2016★ 159 cited

A Survey of High Level Frameworks in Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Packages

Anshu Dubey, Ann Almgren, John Bell +11

Over the last decade block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (SAMR) has found increasing use in large, publicly available codes and frameworks. SAMR frameworks have evolved along…

gr-qc2016★ 15 cited

Modeling Mergers of Known Galactic Systems of Binary Neutron Stars

Alessandra Feo, Roberto De Pietri, Francesco Maione +1

We present a study of the merger of six different known galactic systems of binary neutron stars (BNS) of unequal mass with a mass ratio between and . Specifically, th…

cs.SE2016★ 29 cited

Report on the Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3)

Daniel S. Katz, Sou-Cheng T. Choi, Kyle E. Niemeyer +18

This report records and discusses the Third Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE3). The report includes a description of the keynote prese…

physics.comp-ph2015

Sign learning kink-based (SiLK) quantum Monte Carlo for molecular systems

Xiaoyao Ma, Randall W. Hall, Frank Loffler +4

The Sign Learning Kink (SiLK) based Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is used to calculate the ab initio ground state energies for multiple geometries of the HO, N, and F$…

gr-qc2015★ 46 cited

Modeling Equal and Unequal Mass Binary Neutron Star Mergers Using Public Codes

Roberto De Pietri, Alessandra Feo, Francesco Maione +1

We present three-dimensional simulations of the dynamics of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers from the late stage of the inspiral process up to ms after the system has me…

gr-qc2014★ 18 cited

Stiffness effects on the dynamics of the bar-mode instability of Neutron Stars in full General Relativity

Frank Löffler, Roberto De Pietri, Alessandra Feo +2

We present results on the effect of the stiffness of the equation of state on the dynamical bar-mode instability in rapidly rotating polytropic models of neutron stars in full Gene…

cs.MS2014★ 1 cited

Chemora: A PDE Solving Framework for Modern HPC Architectures

Erik Schnetter, Marek Blazewicz, Steven R. Brandt +2

Modern HPC architectures consist of heterogeneous multi-core, many-node systems with deep memory hierarchies. Modern applications employ ever more advanced discretisation methods t…

gr-qc2014★ 13 cited

Neutron Star instabilities in full General Relativity using a ideal fluid

Roberto De Pietri, Alessandra Feo, Luca Franci +1

We present results about the effect of the use of a stiffer equation of state, namely the ideal-fluid ones, on the dynamical bar-mode instability in rapidly rotating polyt…

cs.CE2013★ 5 cited

Cactus: Issues for Sustainable Simulation Software

Frank Löffler, Steven R. Brandt, Gabrielle Allen +1

The Cactus Framework is an open-source, modular, portable programming environment for the collaborative development and deployment of scientific applications using high-performance…

cs.CE2013★ 1 cited

Software Abstractions and Methodologies for HPC Simulation Codes on Future Architectures

A. Dubey, S. Brandt, R. Brower +9

Large, complex, multi-scale, multi-physics simulation codes, running on high performance com-puting (HPC) platforms, have become essential to advancing science and engineering. The…

physics.comp-ph2013

From Physics Model to Results: An Optimizing Framework for Cross-Architecture Code Generation

Marek Blazewicz, Ian Hinder, David M. Koppelman +6

Starting from a high-level problem description in terms of partial differential equations using abstract tensor notation, the Chemora framework discretizes, optimizes, and generate…

gr-qc2013★ 92 cited

An Introduction to the Einstein Toolkit

Miguel Zilhão, Frank Löffler

We give an introduction to the Einstein Toolkit, a mature, open-source computational infrastructure for numerical relativity based on the Cactus Framework, for the target group of…

gr-qc2013★ 153 cited

GRHydro: A new open source general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics code for the Einstein Toolkit

Philipp Moesta, Bruno C. Mundim, Joshua A. Faber +7

We present the new general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (GRMHD) capabilities of the Einstein Toolkit, an open-source community-driven numerical relativity and computational re…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 108 cited

A New Monte Carlo Method for Time-Dependent Neutrino Radiation Transport

Ernazar Abdikamalov, Adam Burrows, Christian D. Ott +4

Monte Carlo approaches to radiation transport have several attractive properties such as simplicity of implementation, high accuracy, and good parallel scaling. Moreover, Monte Car…

cs.DC2012★ 5 cited

A Massive Data Parallel Computational Framework for Petascale/Exascale Hybrid Computer Systems

Marek Blazewicz, Steven R. Brandt, Peter Diener +5

Heterogeneous systems are becoming more common on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Even using tools like CUDA and OpenCL it is a non-trivial task to obtain optimal perform…

gr-qc2011★ 587 cited

The Einstein Toolkit: A Community Computational Infrastructure for Relativistic Astrophysics

Frank Löffler, Joshua Faber, Eloisa Bentivegna +10

We describe the Einstein Toolkit, a community-driven, freely accessible computational infrastructure intended for use in numerical relativity, relativistic astrophysics, and other…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 136 cited

Dynamics and Gravitational Wave Signature of Collapsar Formation

C. D. Ott, C. Reisswig, E. Schnetter +7

We perform 3+1 general relativistic simulations of rotating core collapse in the context of the collapsar model for long gamma-ray bursts. We employ a realistic progenitor, rotatio…

cs.PL2010★ 4 cited

Simplifying Complex Software Assembly: The Component Retrieval Language and Implementation

Eric L. Seidel, Gabrielle Allen, Steven Brandt +2

Assembling simulation software along with the associated tools and utilities is a challenging endeavor, particularly when the components are distributed across multiple source code…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 13 cited

Computational Models of Stellar Collapse and Core-Collapse Supernovae

C. D. Ott, E. Schnetter, A. Burrows +3

Core-collapse supernovae are among Nature's most energetic events. They mark the end of massive star evolution and pollute the interstellar medium with the life-enabling ashes of t…