Comet Supercomputer Assists in Latest LIGO Discovery

This week's landmark discovery of gravitational and light waves generated by the collision of two neutron stars eons ago was made possible by a signal verification and analysis performed by Comet, an advanced supercomputer based at SDSC in San Diego. "LIGO researchers have so far consumed more than 2 million hours of computational time on Comet through OSG - including about 630,000 hours each to help verify LIGO's findings in 2015 and the current neutron star collision - using Comet's Virtual Clusters for rapid, user-friendly analysis of extreme volumes of data, according to Wi1/4rthwein."

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