ET Workshop Summer 2013
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Summer Einstein Toolkit Workshop 2013
We need to prepare a flyer similar to the one used for the last spring workshop, which can be printed or otherwise distributed.
Announcement
The Einstein Toolkit (http://einsteintoolkit.org) will host its summer workshop 2013 on the last day of the Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School (July 26th).
This workshop is targeted at new and potential new users of the relativity infrastructure. It will provide a general introductions into numerical relativity (although some previous knowledge would be beneficial) and in code development within large collaborations. Hands-on sessions will help to familiarize attendees with the Einstein Toolkit. Participants are asked to bring their own laptops. We would like to invite especially students from physics and computer science to participate.
The number of attendees is limited, and while registration is free, it is required.
In order to register, write an email to workshop@einsteintoolkit.org, specify:
- your name, affiliation and title
- your estimated arrival and departure time/date
- whether you apply for support (and if so, state if you are undergraduate / graduate student / postdoc)
- your special needs
Detailed workshop information can be found at https://docs.einsteintoolkit.org/et-docs/ET_Workshop_Summer_2013.
The Einstein Toolkit Consortium.
Spacetime Coordinates and Contact Information
| Dates | Friday, July 26th |
|---|---|
| Location | TBD |
| Contacts | Workshop email list: workshop@einsteintoolkit.org, emergencies: Frank Löffler (knarf@cct.lsu.edu, +1-225-202-1752) or Roland Haas (rhaas@tapir.caltech.edu, +1-404-386-3657) |
| Hotel | Saga Motor Inn, 1633 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106, Preferred reservation line, Phone (626) 795-0431, Fax (626) 792-0559, http://www.thesagamotorhotel.com, $65.00 double bed, one person, $70.00 double bed, two people, Caltech rate (mention when calling)
Vagabond Inn, Pasadena, 1203 East Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106, Phone (626) 449-3170, http://www.vagabondinn.com, $79.00 double bed (one or two persons), rate on website differs, best to call and mention Caltech. |
| Transportation - Hotel | instructions from airport. |
| Transportation - Workshop | walking distance, provide map. |
| Food options | Chandler's on campus, Ernie's food truck, restaurants on Lake, anything on Colorado. |
Participant List
Below are the ET volunteers who will be presenting or heading parts of the sessions.
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Roland Haas | Caltech | visualization |
| Frank Löffler | Louisiana State University | Cactus introduction |
Participants for the maintainers workshop (July 27th to 29th):
| Name | Affiliation | Hotel |
|---|---|---|
| Steven Brandt | Louisiana State University | Vagabond |
| Peter Diener | Louisiana State University | ? |
| Josh Faber | RIT | ? |
| Roland Haas | Caltech | local |
| Frank Löffler | Louisiana State University | Vagabond |
| Philipp Mösta | Caltech | local |
| Christian Ott | Caltech | local |
In-Workshop Details
Schedule
This is the schedule for the first day of last year's tutorial. Will need to be condensed and updated for proper assignment of responsibilities.
| Day | Time | Activity | Presenter / Responsible |
| Fri | TBA | Setup for late birds | Tanja Bode, Roland Haas, Frank Löffler |
| Fri | TBA | Introduction to Workshop development environment | TBA |
| Fri | TBA | Introduction to Cactus | Frank Löffler |
| Fri | TBA | Running and extending (par-file) of two provided examples: perturbed, single BH, and perturbed, single TOV star | |
| Fri | TBA | talk: Visualizing results | Roland Haas |
| Fri | TBA | hands on: Visualizing results | Roland Haas |
| Fri | TBA | Introduction on Cactus Thorn-Writing (lower level) (slides) | Joshua Faber |
| Fri | TBA | Hands-on, center of mass for analysis purposes (simple way) | Roland Haas |
Last year's program
| Day | Time | Activity | Presenter / Responsible |
| Tue | 16:00-17:30 | Setup for early birds | Tanja Bode, Roland Haas, Frank Löffler |
| Wed | 08:00-08:30 | Setup for late birds | Tanja Bode, Roland Haas, Frank Löffler |
| Wed | 08:30-09:00 | Opening, Introduction (slides) | Frank Löffler |
| Wed | 09:00-09:30 | Introduction to Scientific Software & HPC (slides) | Frank Löffler |
| Wed | 09:30-10:00 | Introduction to Cactus (high-level) (slides) | Frank Löffler |
| Wed | 10:00-10:30 | Discussion and break | |
| Wed | 10:30-11:15 | Introduction to General Relativity (slides) | Joshua Faber |
| Wed | 11:15-12:00 | Introduction on Cactus Thorn-Writing (lower level) (slides) | Joshua Faber |
| Wed | 12:00-13:00 | Lunch break | |
| Wed | 13:00-13:30 | Introduction to Workshop development environment | Dennis Castleberry |
| Wed | 13:30-14:15 | Hands-on, provided Wave-Equation example within Cactus (slides) | Roland Haas |
| Wed | 14:15-15:15 | Introduction numerical methods & numerical Relativity (slides) | Bruno Mundim, Peter Diener |
| Wed | 15:15-15:45 | Discussion and break | |
| Wed | 15:45-17:30 | Running and extending (par-file) of two provided examples: perturbed, single BH, and perturbed, single TOV star | Frank Löffler, Bruno Mundim |
| Thu | 08:00-09:00 | Introduction in Scientific visualization - a bit of theory and a lot of practice (slides) | Tanja Bode |
| Thu | 09:00-10:00 | Invited Talk I -- Matt Duez, Washington University: The Challenge of interpreting data in numerical relativity | |
| Thu | 10:00-10:30 | Discussion and break | |
| Thu | 10:30-11:15 | Hands-on: Using visualization tools to look at meaningful quantities ( TOV profile evolutions ) (slides) | Tanja Bode |
| Thu | 11:15-12:00 | Create movie of either BH+GW or TOV oscillations using VisIt (slides, TOV session file, TOV data file, Psi4 session file, Psi4 data file) | Roland Haas |
| Thu | 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| Thu | 13:00-14:15 | Hands-on: Implement your own thorn (neutron star tracking), and visualize it, in teams of about 5 people (slides), more information at end of wiki | Roland Haas |
| Thu | 14:15-15:15 | Invited Talk II -- John Wise, Georgia Tech: Basic Enzo Algorithms | |
| Thu | 15:15-15:45 | Discussion and break | |
| Thu | 15:45-17:30 | Hands-on: continuation | Roland Haas |
| Fri | 08:00-09:00 | Presentation of visualization of result of previous session, 6 teams: 8 min each | Frank Löffler |
| Fri | 09:00-10:00 | Invited talk III -- Gabrielle Allen, LSU (slides) | |
| Fri | 10:00-10:30 | Discussion and break | |
| Fri | 10:30-11:00 | Tour through available ET components (slides) | Peter Diener |
| Fri | 11:00-11:30 | Overview over supercomputing resources, introduction on how to get accounts / allocations, trends in HPC, reminder how to get ET help in the future (slides) | Joshua Faber, Peter Diener |
| Fri | 11:30-12:00 | The future of the ET: everything we didn't talk about (EOSs, refluxing, multiblock, MHD, radiation etc.) (slides) | Frank Löffler |
Setup
- Wireless access is through the XXX network.
- The virtual machine for the workshop is [1] and will run in virtualbox.
