Artist's rendering, by Dr. Hitoshi Muller (Musashino Art University, Japan), of the compact star cluster MGG11 in the starburst galaxy M82, based on simulations performed by Portegies Zwart et al. Stellar collisions are commonplace in the dense heart of this congested stellar system. The inset shows the result of a hydrodynamical calculation of one such collision, between stars of 53 and 18 times the mass of the Sun, performed by Dr. James Lombardi (Vassar College, USA)
- May 2006: GRAPE upgrade realized (dual processor pentium hosts and infiniband interconnect)
- March 2006: Dutch Dynamic GRAPE Grid granted (NWO STARE)
- 1 July 2005: Received 2 additional GRAPE-6Af computers
- 2 October 2004: First production calculation performed
- 10 April 2004: Press release RESEARCHERS RESOLVE INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLE MYSTERY
- 6 February 2004: First light
- 18 December 2003: GRAPEs arrive at SARA
- 5 December 2003: GRAPEs arrive at Schiphol
- June 2003: Financial support for postdoctoral fellow and PhD student granted by NWO Open Competition for the project The Evolution of Stellar Collision Products (P.I. Onno Pols and Simon Portegies Zwart)
- 27 June 2003: 110 000 Euro granted by NWO open competition to finance MODESTA.
- 2002: Financial support for postdoctoral fellow and PhD student granted by NWO Computational Science for the project A Bunch of GRAPEs (P.I. Edward van den Heuvel)
The new MoDeStA setup in Almere (foto by Walter de Jong)
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