{"id":10196,"date":"2012-06-11T18:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2012-06-11T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T21:44:08","slug":"astronomy-research-gets-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/astronomy-research-gets-a-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomy research gets a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/2012\/06\/11\/astronomy-research-gets-a-boost\/notcont71904-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10199\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10199\" title=\"notcont71904\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/notcont71904-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Daniel Bueno<\/span><\/a>This month sees one of the world\u2019s largest and most powerful computer clusters aimed exclusively at astronomical research go on-stream. Valued at more than US$ 1 million, the equipment is installed at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) and was acquired with funding from FAPESP through the Multi-User Equipment Program, as part of a project between IAG-USP and Unicsul\u2019s Theoretical Astrophysics Center (NAT). Consisting of three towers, this set of computers has 2.3 thousand processing cores overall. The cluster previously used by the institution had a mere 40 processing cores. \u201cWe don\u2019t know of any other astronomy department in the world with this computing capacity. There are universities and consortiums including research institutions that have much larger clusters, but the processing time is split between various areas and is not reserved only for astronomy,\u201d said Alex Carciofi, a professor at USP and the person in charge of the project\u2019s implementation, to <em>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP<\/em>. According to him, the computer cluster will make it possible to run more mathematical models (numerical simulations), which are used to study astronomical systems, such as stars, galaxies and interstellar mediums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In operation one of the biggest and most powerful clusters in the world","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[205,219],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-10196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-astronomy","tag-computation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10196"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}