Use cases
In this list, the 23 astrophysical use cases are given together with the responsible person,
basic features, and a link to more detailed information. The use cases are designed to serve
as typical astrophysical test applications of the AstroGrid-D structure.
Phase 1 Usecases: Applications with atomic structure
| Name |
Software Requirements |
Features | |
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UC1 NIRVANA
Details (eng.) Udo Ziegler (AIP) Code to solve the magnetohydrodynamical equations |
C/C++, HDF5, MPI, make |
CPU mode: single/parallel Runtime: days-weeks RAM: < 50 GB Disk space: 20 GB |
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UC2
AMIGA
Alexander Knebe (AIP) Nbody code |
ANSI C, make |
CPU mode: single Runtime: weeks-months RAM: < 3 GB Disk space: 20 GB |
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UC3
NBODY6++
(phi-GRAPE)
Rainer Spurzem, Peter Berczik (ZAH) xnbody visualization (with FZ Jülich) |
Fortran77, C, MPI, make, PBS, Globus, Gridway |
CPU mode: single/parallel Runtime: days-weeks RAM: < 1 GB Disk space: < 3 GB, use of GRAPE (phi-GRAPE variant) |
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UC4
DYNAMO
Detlef Elstner (AIP) Introduction - Code to solve the turbulent dynamo equations |
Fortran90, make |
CPU mode: single Runtime: hours-days RAM: 0.5 GB Disk space: < 10 GB |
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UC6
GADGET
Harry Enke (AIP) Nbody Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics code |
gmake, GSL, FFTW, HDF5, C, MPI |
CPU mode: parallel Runtime: days-weeks RAM: 0.5 GB Disk space: < 3 TB |
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UC12
GEO600
Thomas Radke (AEI) Gravitational Waves Analysis |
C/C++, Fortran, Java, make, Globus, Condor, Matlab |
CPU mode: multi-threaded, not MPI Runtime: hours RAM: 0.003 GB Disk space: < 0.01 GB |
Phase 2 Usecases: Applications with complex workflows and/or advanced I/O requirements
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Name |
Software Requirements |
Features |
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UC5
CACTUS
Thomas Radke (AEI) General Solver Environment |
CVS, perl, C/C++, Fortran90, MPI, HDFs, BLAS, LAPACK, GSL, PETSc |
CPU mode: single/parallel Runtime: hours-days RAM: 1 GB Disk space: <3 TB |
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UC7
ASTROMATCH
Arthur Carlson (MPE) Astrometric Matching in StarGlobe |
Java 1.5, AstroGrid-D data stream management, astrophysical archives, GT4 |
CPU mode: single Runtime: minutes-hours RAM: 0.25 GB Disk space: dep. on archive |
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UC8
CLUSTERFINDER
Arthur Carlson (MPE) Source Identification in RASS/SDSS |
Linux; Fortran, gcc, Perl, Python, Java, RASS, SDSS, Conesearch, make, Globus2.4.x |
CPU mode: single Runtime: RAM: 0.1 GB Disk space: < 20 GB |
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UC9
VIRTUAL TELESCOPE
Gerhard Lemson (MPE) Telescope simulation applied to simulation data |
Linux, Fortran90, C++, gcc, Ant, make, GPL, Java |
CPU mode: single Runtime: RAM: 0.001 GB Disk space: 0.003 GB |
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UC10
MILLENIUM QUERY
Arthur Carlson (MPE) Remote dataset filtering, retrieval using a database |
Database, MS SQL server, Java, Ant, VOPlot |
CPU mode: single Runtime: minutes RAM: 1 GB Disk space: 1GB |
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UC11
MILL. POSTPROCESSING
Arthur Carlson (MPE) Postprocessing of S Simulations |
C, IDL |
CPU mode: Runtime: RAM: Disk space: 20 GB |
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UC13
SED CLASSIFICATION
Arthur Carlson (MPE) Comparison of theoretical and observed Spectral Energy Distributions |
Java 1.5, AstroGrid-D data stream management, astrophysical archives, GT4 |
CPU mode: single Runtime: minutes-hours RAM: 0.25 GB Disk space: dep on archive |
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UC14
STELLA
Thomas Granzer (AIP) Grid integration of a robotic telescope |
Perl | CPU mode: single Runtime: minutes-hours RAM: 0.5 GB Disk space: 1 TB |
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UC15 PLANET Joachim Wambsganss (ZAH) Use case currently not further considered |
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UC16
FRINGE
Jürgen Steinacker (ZAH) Interactive processing of Very Large Telescope Interferometer data |
IDL, C++ |
CPU mode: single Runtime: minutes RAM: 3 GB Disk space: 1 GB |
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UC17
PROC
Hans-Martin Adorf (MPA) Grid version of Planck process coordinator software |
C++, Fortran, IDL |
CPU mode: multiple Runtime: hours-days RAM: 10 GB Disk space: 1 GB |
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UC18
CACTUS MONITORING
Thomas Radke (AEI) Providing metadata of Cactus runs on monitoring web pages |
CVS,Perl, C/C++,Fortran90, MPI,HDF5, BLAS,LAPACK, GSL,PETSc |
CPU mode: multiple Runtime: hours-weeks RAM: all avail. Disk space: < 3 TB |
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U19
GALAXY MERGERS
Hans-Martin Adorf (MPA) Compare galaxy images and galaxy merger simulation images |
C | CPU mode: parallel Runtime: RAM: 10 GB Disk space: < 1 TB |
| U20
The Nature of Dark Energy
Stefan Gottlöber (AIP) |
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| U27
OpenTel
- An Open Network for Robotic Telescopes Frank Breitling (AIP) |
Requires VO management of the Globus Toolkit and a central information service like Stellaris. | Telescopes and computers are provided as grid resources by the participants. | |
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U28
HaloFinder AHF
- identifies dark matter halos around simulated galaxies Steffen Knollmann (AIP) |
POSIX; C99 |
CPU mode: parallel (MPI) Runtime: hours RAM: 3 GB Disk space: 32 GB |