Enabling Petascale Computational Astrophysics with the Enzo-P/Cello Project

Andrew Emerick, Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.

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Developing codes that can take advantage of current and future generations of computing environments is essential to advancing our understanding of the Universe. Using the cosmological hydrodynamics code Enzo, I developed a revolutionary new approach capable of following the interactions between individual stars and entire galaxies. However, the size of these galaxies is restricted by current scaling limitations. With my Blue Waters Fellowship I will port physics modules from my work to the the Enzo-P/Cello project, which has demonstrated efficient scaling up to 256,000 cores on Blue Waters. I will test how well our current findings scale to more massive galaxies and will open the work for use by the broader astrophysics community.