The NINJA-2 project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations

Grants

Funding Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, OTKA of Hungary, the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.We gratefully acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation under NSF grants PHY-1305730, PHY-1212426, PHY-1229173, AST-1028087, DRL-1136221, OCI-0832606, PHY-0903782, PHY-0929114, PHY-0969855, AST-1002667, PHY-0963136, PHY-1300903, PHY-1305387, PHY-1204334, PHY-0855315, PHY-0969111, PHY-1005426, PHY-0601459, PHY-1068881, PHY-1005655, PHY-0653443, PHY-0855892, PHY-0914553, PHY-0941417, PHY-0903973, PHY-0955825, by NASA grants 07-ATFP07-0158, NNX11AE11G, NNX13AH44G, NNX09AF96G, NNX09AF97G, by Marie Curie Grants of the 7th European Community Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG CBHEO No. 293412, by the DyBHo-256667 ERC Starting Grant, and MIRG-CT-2007-205005/PHY, and Science and Technology Facilities Council grants ST/H008438/1 and ST/I001085/1. Further funding was provided by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, NSERC of Canada, the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Ramon y Cajal Programme of the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, contracts AYA2010-15709, CSD2007-00042, CSD2009-00064 and FPA2010-16495 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the German Research Foundation, grant SFB/Transregio 7, the German Aerospace Center for LISA Germany, and the Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (24103006). Computations were carried out on Teragrid machines Lonestar, Ranger, Trestles and Kraken under Teragrid allocations TG-PHY060027N, TG-MCA99S008, TG-PHY090095, TG-PHY100051, TG-PHY990007N, TG-PHY090003, TG-MCA08X009. Computations were also performed on the clusters "HLRB-2'at LRZ Munich, 'NewHorizons' and 'Blue Sky'at RIT (funded by NSF grant nos PHY-1229173, AST-1028087, DMS-0820923 and PHY-0722703), 'Zwicky' at Caltech (funded by NSF MRI award PHY-0960291), 'Finis Terrae'(funded by CESGA-ICTS-2010-200), 'Caesaraugusta'(funded by BSC grant nos AECT-2011-2-0006, AECT-2011-3-0007), 'MareNostrum'( funded by BSC grant nos. AECT-2009- 2-0017, AECT-2010-1-0008, AECT-2010-2-0013, AECT-2010-3-0010, AECT-2011-10015, AECT-2011-2-0012), 'VSC' in Vienna (funded by FWF grant P22498), 'Force' at GaTech, and on the GPC supercomputer at the SciNet HPC Consortium [150]; SciNet is funded by: the Canada Foundation for Innovation under the auspices of Compute Canada; the Government of Ontario; Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence; and the University of Toronto.