ABSTRACT

Erik Schnetter Center for Computation & Technology and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Christian D. Ott Steward Observatory and Department of Astronomy, The University of Arizona

Gabrielle Allen Center for Computation & Technology and Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University

Peter Diener Center for Computation & Technology and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University

Tom Goodale Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, and School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, UK

Thomas Radke

Max-Planck-Institut fu¨r Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Germany

Edward Seidel Center for Computation & Technology and Department of Physics, Louisiana State University

John Shalf

CRD/NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ninety years after Einstein first proposed his General Theory of Relativity (GR), astrophysicists more than ever and in greater detail are probing into regions of the universe where gravity is very strong and where, according to GR’s geometric description, the curvature of space-time is large.