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Cactus Framework
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Cactus was originally developed at the <a href="/facts/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Gravitational_Physics/d77VXkTL">AEI</a>, and is now developed jointly at <a href="/facts/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Gravitational_Physics/d77VXkTL">AEI</a>, <a href="/facts/Cardiff_University/HDgPQSCv">Cardiff University</a>, and the <a href="/facts/Center_for_Computation_%26_Technology/x50wQjPA">Center for Computation & Technology</a> at <a href="/facts/Louisiana_State_University/yg8S4Tyy">LSU</a>. There are several large packages built on Cactus, among others a <a href="/facts/General_relativity/jVsoIg8X">general relativistic</a> <a href="/facts/Spacetime/uRIN1x4b">spacetime</a> evolution code, an <a href="/facts/Adaptive_mesh_refinement/5FHW0UbQ">adaptive mesh refinement</a> driver (Carpet), and a <a href="/facts/General_relativity/jVsoIg8X">general relativistic</a> <a href="/facts/Hydrodynamics/y7uzSCfg">hydrodynamics</a> code (Whisky). </p><p>Staff with the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, who were part of the original group at AEI who created Cactus, celebrated the program's 10th birthday in April 2007. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Application_framework/xSzKMgdn">Application framework</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Software_framework/EWasA8sG">Software framework</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Cactus/JTf3NFBj">Cactus</a> the plant</li> <li><a href="/facts/Embedded_HTTP_server/3INEvFVk">Embedded HTTP server</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Numerical_relativity/R7D2PEqT">Numerical relativity</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.cactuscode.org/">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.cct.lsu.edu/">Center for Computation & Technology</a></li> <li><a href="http://numrel.aei.mpg.de/">Numerical relativity group at the Albert Einstein Institute</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.whiskycode.org/">www.whiskycode.org</a> Whisky — the EU Network GR Hydrodynamics code</li> <li><a href="http://einsteintoolkit.org/">einsteintoolkit.org</a> Einstein Toolkit</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Allen, Gabrielle; Benger, Werner; Goodale, Tom; Hege, Hans-Christian; Lanfermann, Gerd; Merzky, Andre; Radke, Thomas; Seidel, Edward; Shalf, John (1999). "Solving Einstein's equations on supercomputers" (PDF). Computer. 32 (12): 52–58. doi:10.1109/2.809251. Retrieved 2021-07-22. <a href="https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/AllPapers/CS_Allen99b.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/AllPapers/CS_Allen99b.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Allen, Gabrielle; Benger, Werner; Goodale, Tom; Hege, Hans-Christian; Lanfermann, Gerd; Merzky, Andre; Radke, Thomas; Seidel, Edward; Shalf, John (2000). "The cactus code: A problem solving environment for the grid" (PDF). Proceedings the Ninth International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing. IEEE. pp. 253–260. doi:10.1109/HPDC.2000.868657. Retrieved 2021-07-22. <a href="https://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusArchive/cvs_cactus/trunk/cactus2/Publications/Papers/Cactus_Allen00a.pre.pdf" target="_blank">https://svn.cactuscode.org/arrangements/CactusArchive/cvs_cactus/trunk/cactus2/Publications/Papers/Cactus_Allen00a.pre.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Goodale, Tom; Allen, Gabrielle; Lanfermann, Gerd; Massò, Joan; Radke, Thomas; Seidel, Edward; Shalf, John (2003). "The Cactus framework and toolkit: Design and applications". High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2002: 5th International Conference. LNCS, Vol. 2565. Springer. pp. 197–227. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.98.8838. doi:10.1007/3-540-36569-9_13. <a href="/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/CiteSeerX_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Allen, Gabrielle; Goodale, Tom; Löffler, Frank; Rideout, David; Schnetter, Erik; Seidel, Erik L. (2010). "Component specification in the Cactus Framework: The Cactus Configuration Language". 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing. IEEE. pp. 359–368. arXiv:1009.1341. doi:10.1109/GRID.2010.5698008. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>