Accelerating the detection of gravitational waves with GPUs

Eliu Huerta Escudero, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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NANOGrav is a collaboration of scientists working to detect and study very low frequency (about nanohertz) gravitational waves. Using an array of high- precision millisecond pulsars, we seek to measure the influence of gravitational waves on the Earth. At these frequencies, we expect to detect a stochastic background of merging supermassive black holes, individual inspiral and merger events, and possibly cosmic strings and inflationary gravitational waves. NANOGrav consists of astrophysicists at over a dozen institutions throughout the United States and Canada. We count among our ranks senior faculty and researchers, postdoctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and even high school students through our educational and outreach partnerships.

NCSA’s Relativity Group is hosting the 2016 Fall Science Meeting of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Consortium at NCSA from October 17-21. The conference website is currently available at the URL: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Conferences/NANOGrav/