Ananya Adhikari, a researcher at CENTRA, working with David Hilditch, receives a Larger Access A3 Advanced Computing Project grant from Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT).
The project proposal “Simulating extreme spacetimes with`bamps`,” with PI Ananya Adhikari and co-PI David Hilditch, has been awarded computational resources through a Larger Access A3 category allocation in the 6.ª edição do Concurso de Projetos de Computação Avançada(6th edition of Advanced Computing Projects Call) from FCT. A3 is the largest allocation category for CPU type computational resource grants in the Call, intended for teams with consolidated experience in the use of advanced computing resources. The computation will be carried out on the Deucalion high-performance computing (HPC) cluster maintained at the Minho Advanced Computing Center (MACC) under the supervision of the Computação Avançada (CA) section of FCCN - Serviços Digitais FCT.
The computational resources (around 30 million core hours) will be utilized to perform general relativistic simulations of extreme spacetimes at the threshold of black hole formation. The objective is to discern insight into the critical phenomena exhibited by spacetimes at this threshold of gravitational collapse, in the presence and absence of matter and electromagnetic radiation.
The simulations will be carried out using the `bamps` numerical relativity software package that is being actively developed principally at CENTRA, Portugal, and Jena University, Germany. The simulations will be carried out by the team of collaborators (comprising professors, postdoc researchers, doctoral and master's students), which consists of Ananya Adhikari, Jorge Expósito Patiño, Krinio Marouda, David Hilditch, and Hannes Rüter in CENTRA, Portugal; Daniela Cors Agulló in the University of Cambridge, UK; Guilherme Leite Bruzão in Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Brazil; Ashique Thushara Nizar and Soumen Basak in IISER Thiruvananthapuram, India; and Bernd Brügmann in Jena University, Germany.
[Image taken from: https://www.macc.fccn.pt/resources#deucalion]
