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South Africa Project
at the Bergen Computational Physics Laboratory
Bergen Computational Physics Laboratory (BCPL) is an infrastructure at the Department of Physics of the University of Bergen, Norway, with a scientific staff working on modeling of subatomic, atomic and molecular reactions, using supercomputing facilities, including a 499.2 GigaFlop (peak capacity), 96 copper Power4 processor IBM e-server p690 Turbo Regatta as its present top facility. The Laboratory's main objective is to provide scientific support and high performance computing power to visiting researchers.
On 2 November 2001 a group of physicists from the University of Cape Town (UCT) were accepted as members of the ALICE collaboration at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. The group in Cape Town are newcomers to this field, and considerable guidance will be needed, especially now, in the early stages. The collaboration between Cape Town and Bergen therefore comes at a particularly appropriate moment. For Cape Town this involves a considerable change in research direction since, during the apartheid years, it was impossible to collaborate internationally because of sanctions imposed on South Africa. The main objective is therefore a collaboration on all the aspects involving physics of relativistic heavy ion collisions: the model building part (mainly theoretical in nature), the analysis part (involving the development of software and the running of simulations), and the hardware part (the contribution to the development of detectors).
Project leaders:
Prof. László P. Csernai (University of Bergen) and
Prof. Jean Cleymans (University of Cape Town)
Participating institutions:
- Section for Theoretical and Computational Physics (Sentef), University of Bergen
- Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Para//ab, High Performance Computing Centre, University of Bergen
Contract no.: 152253/730 Oct. 15, 2002
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