Infrastructures

A cornerstone of GoLP activities is the combination of supercomputers, numerical codes, and visualisation tools to support the research undertaken by our teams. Our teams are world leading experts in using these tools to uncover the physics of some of the most exciting  scenarios in the laboratory and in the Universe, associated with long standing science questions.

Clusters

Clusters

We have routinely access to the largest supercomputers in the World through competitive calls (e.g. within EuroHPC) and through our collaborations in the US and in Europe. We also maintain a 2000 cpu-core cluster that supports the activity of our teams. Check the News section for updates on the local cluster resources and on new supercomputer time allocations for our teams.

Codes

Codes

Our team has access to a suite of massively parallel codes available, covering all plasma scales from the fully relativistic particle-in-cell code OSIRIS 4.0 (kinetic) [OSIRIS official website and open source access] to the hybrid code dhybrid (hybrid and particle-MHD).

OSIRIS is a state-of-the-art massively parallel particle-in-cell code, with a wide array of features and physics models, jointly developed by the Osiris Consortium, consisting of IST and UCLA, that has recently expanded to the University of Michigan. IST manages the links of the Osiris consortium with European institutions. As part of the collaboration strategy of our team, we have signed MoUs with many institutions in Europe including Oslo University, University of Strathclyde, DESY, Max Plank Institute for Physics, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Politecnico di Torino, University of Oxford, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, among many others.

Visualization

Visualization

The visualization infrastructure is based on dedicated servers for visualisation and individual desktops running IDL, also including a suite of visualisation tools over IDL developed internally – VisXD. IST has signed MoUs to distribute VisXD with all the European partners that have signed OSIRIS MoUs and also with Princeton University and the University of Toronto. A python based visualization infrastructure called Nata, as an homage to the famous Lisbon pastry, has also been developed by GoLP researchers

Our teams are also engaged in vibrant experimental programs, Our teams are also frequently involved in collaborations with Industry. A detailed and updated description of the experimental laboratories can be found in the webpages of the Research Teams.

All the labs at GoLP have now structured light/puse shaping capabilities, the Laboratory for Intense Lasers host a unique mid infrared few cycles laser pulses, along with Ti:Sa and OPCPA systems, the VOXEL Lab hosts at Ti:Sa laser system with a dedicated High Harmonic Generation beamline and a laser-plasma interactions beamline, the MOTLab hosts a cold atoms experiment with high stable CW lasers, and the Discharge Plasma Sources Lab a 4 meter long test facility for plasma sources for advanced accelerators.