Jülich Supercomputing Centre grants 28 million CPU hours for simulations of thermonuclear supernovae
Together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, PSO scientists were awarded 28 million CPU hours on the JUQUEEN supercomputer at Jülich Supercomputing Centre for a collaboration project on the “Progenitor systems of thermonuclear supernovae”. These resources, allocated for November 2017 to October 2018, will be used to run a suite of models including simulations of the explosion phase with the hydrodynamics code LEAFS, nucleosynthesis calculations with the nuclear network code YANN and radiative transfer simulations with the Monte Carlo code ARTIS. This will allow us to directly confront astronomical observations to the physical conditions in thermonuclear explosions and thus derive constraints on their explosion mechanism and progenitor systems.
About HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) was established in 2010 by the physicist and SAP co-founder Klaus Tschira (1940-2015) and the Klaus Tschira Foundation as a private, non-profit research institute. HITS conducts basic research in the natural sciences, mathematics and computer science, with a focus on the processing, structuring, and analyzing of large amounts of complex data and the development of computational methods and software. The research fields range from molecular biology to astrophysics. The shareholders of HITS are the HITS-Stiftung, which is a subsidiary of the Klaus Tschira Foundation, Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). HITS also cooperates with other universities and research institutes and with industrial partners. The base funding of HITS is provided by the HITS Stiftung with funds received from the Klaus Tschira Foundation. The primary external funding agencies are the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Research Foundation (DFG), and the European Union.
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