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Acknowledgments

The Flash Center for Computational Science at the University of Rochester is supported by the U.S. DOE NNSA, the U.S. DOE Office of Science, the U.S. DOE ARPA-E, the NSF, the U.S. DOD, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Some of the test calculations described here were performed on machines at LLNL, LANL, San Diego Supercomputing Center, and ANL. The current contributors to the code from the Center include:

Abigail Armstrong, Jonathan Carroll-Nellenback, Pericles Farmakis, Milad Fatenejad, Fernando Garcia-Rubio Edward Hansen, Mokin Lee, BaoWei Liu, Yingchao Lu, Mary McMullan, David Michta, Kasper Moczulski, Ananya Mohapatra, Adam Reyes, Rich Sarkis, Joshua P. Sauppe, Anthony Scopatz, Petros Tzeferacos, and Niels Vanderloo.

Considerable external and past contributors include:

Marissa Adams, Katie Antypas, John Bachan, Robi Banerjee, Alemayehu Bogale, Edward Brown, Peter Brune, Alvaro Caceres, Alan Calder, Alberto Cattaneo, Emmanouil Chatzopoulos, Sean Couch, Christopher Daley, Anshu Dubey, Jonathan Dursi, Lee Ellison, Christoph Federrath, Scott Feister, Robert Fisher, Norbert Flocke, Bruce Fryxell, J. Brad Gallagher, Murali Ganapathy Krishna, Nathan Goldbaum, Shravan K. Gopal, William Gray, Carlo Graziani, Nathan Hearn, Mats Holmström, George Calhoun Jordan IV, Benjamin Khiar, JT Laune, Yousef Lawrence, Dongwook Lee, Timur Linde, Zarija Lukic, Elisabeth Medina, Andrea Mignone, Joshua Miller, Prateeti Mohapatra, Samuel Olofin, Kevin Olson, Salvatore Orlando, Tomek Plewa, Kim Robinson, Lynn Reid, Paul Rich, Paul Ricker, Katherine Riley, Chalence Safranek-Shrader, Daniel Sheeler, Andrew Siegel, Noel Taylor, Frank Timmes, Dean Townsley, Marcos Vanella, Natalia Vladimirova, Christopher Walker, Klaus Weide, Greg Weirs, Richard Wunsch, Mike Zingale, and John ZuHone.

PARAMESH was developed under NASA Contracts/Grants NAG5-2652 with George Mason University; NAS5-32350 with Raytheon/STX; NAG5-6029 and NAG5-10026 with Drexel University; NAG5-9016 with the University of Chicago; and NCC5-494 with the GEST Institute. For information on PARAMESH please contact its main developers, Peter MacNeice (macneice@alfven.gsfc.nasa.gov) and Kevin Olson
(olson@physics.drexel.edu) and see the website
https://web.archive.org/web/20160421055017/http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~olson/paramesh-doc/Users_manual/amr.html.