The Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) is a research center of the College of Science (COS) and a Research Center of Excellence at

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(RIT) dedicated to research at the frontiers of numerical relativity and relativistic astrophysics, gravitational-wave physics, its connection to experiments and observations, and high-performance computation and scientific visualization. Faculty members currently include Hans-Peter Bischof, Joshua Faber, Manuela Campanelli (Director), Carlos Lousto,

David Merritt David Roy Merritt (born November 16, 1955, in Los Angeles) is an American astrophysicist. He is known for Osipkov–Merritt model, the Leonard–Merritt mass estimator and the M–sigma relation. Education and career He received in 1982 ...

, John Whelan, Yosef Zlochower and Richard O'Shaughnessy. Computing facilities in the CCRG include

gravitySimulator gravitySimulator is a novel supercomputer that incorporates special-purpose GRAPE hardware to solve the gravitational ''n''-body problem. It is housed in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) at the Rochester Institute o ...

, a 32-node computer that uses special-purpose

GRAPE A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus ''Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began approximately 8,0 ...

hardware to achieve speeds of 4 Tflops in gravitational ''N''-body calculations; RIT's gravitySimulator Among the Fastest
, ''HPCwire'', July 15, 2005 and NewHorizons, a 104-node Linux cluster with dual-processor (dual-core) per node and a total of 1.4 Tbytes of on-board memory. The mission of the CCRG is "to promote excellence in research and education, and to advance discovery beyond the frontiers of current knowledge in key research areas of computational astrophysics, gravitational physics, high-performance computing and scientific visualization."

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* Rochester Institute of Technology Astronomy institutes and departments Research institutes in New York (state) Astrophysics research institutes 2007 establishments in New York (state) Organizations established in 2007 {{science-org-stub