Numerical Relativity at UT Brownsville
Glossary of Terms
- C, C++ related programming languages in current widespread
use
- Cactus a software package designed for modular scientific
programming/computing for use on parallel platforms
- F77, F90 successive versions of the FORTRAN programming
language
- flesh the core program in Cactus that coordinates the
implementation
of modular thorns
- gcc GNU C compiler
- HDF Hierarchical Data Format (software for data input,
output, analysis, visualizing, and conversion)
- icc Intel C++ compiler
- ifc Intel FORTRAN compiler
- LAM Local Area Multicomputer (a specific program for
implementing
MPI)
- MPI Message Passing Interface
- Perl a program for executing command scripts
- testsuite WaveDemo program for checking thorns
- thorn an individual modular program used in Cactus
- thornlist a list of thorn (generally as a file) used for
a given application of Cactus
- WaveDemo short for WaveToy Demo
- WaveToy Demo a demonstration of Cactus that simulates the
three-dimensional scalar wave field from two orbiting sources
