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--- ET.tex	2011-11-14 17:14:47 UTC (rev 233)
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@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 Bruno C. Mundim $^2$,
 Christian D. Ott $^{5,1,6}$,
 Erik Schnetter $^{7,8,1}$,
-Gabrielle Allen $^1$,
+Gabrielle Allen $^{1,9,10}$,
 Manuela Campanelli $^2$
 and Pablo Laguna $^4$}
 
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@
   ON, Canada}
 \address{$^8$ Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON,
   Canada}
+\address{$^9$ Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA}
+\address{$^{10}$ National Science Foundation, USA}
 \ead{knarf at cct.lsu.edu}
 
 %\thanks{{}$^{(1)}$ Department of Computer Science,
@@ -122,10 +124,10 @@
 We describe the Einstein Toolkit, a community-driven, freely accessible
 computational infrastructure intended for use in numerical relativity,
 relativistic astrophysics, and other applications.  The Toolkit, developed by a
-collaboration involving researchers from several institutions around the world,
+collaboration involving researchers from multiple institutions around the world,
 combines a core set of components needed to simulate astrophysical objects such
 as black holes, compact objects, and collapsing stars, as well as a full suite
-of analysis tools.  The Einstein Toolkit is based on the Cactus Framework for
+of analysis tools.  The Einstein Toolkit is currently based on the Cactus Framework for
 high-performance computing and the Carpet adaptive mesh refinement driver.  It
 implements spacetime evolution via the BSSN evolution system and
 general-relativistic hydrodynamics in a finite-volume discretization. The
@@ -157,13 +159,13 @@
 in the study of astrophysical systems containing black holes (BHs) 
 and neutron stars (NSs).  The first fully general relativistic (GR) 
 simulations of merging NS-NS binaries were reported in 1999, with further 
-advances for the next few years~\cite{Shibata:1999wm,Shibata:2002jb,
+advances over the next few years~\cite{Shibata:1999wm,Shibata:2002jb,
 Shibata:2003ga,Shibata:2005ss,Shibata:2006nm}. However, systems containing BHs proved 
-much more difficult to track numerically until 2005.  That year, computational 
-breakthroughs were made using a generalized harmonic formulation~\cite{Pretorius:2005gq} and then a ``moving puncture'' approach 
+much more difficult to evolve numerically until 2005.  That year, computational 
+breakthroughs were made   following the development of a generalized harmonic formulation~\cite{Pretorius:2005gq} and then a ``moving puncture'' approach 
 \cite{Campanelli:2005dd, Baker:2005vv} in the BSSN 
 (Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura) formalism~\cite{Shibata:1995we,Baumgarte:1998te} 
-that allowed for the first stable long-term evolutions of moving single 
+that lead to the first stable long-term evolutions of moving single 
 and multiple BH systems.  These results quickly transformed the field 
 which was now able to effectively evolve the Einstein field equations 
 for coalescing BH-BH binaries and other systems containing moving 
@@ -238,15 +240,14 @@
  
 Simultaneously with the advances in both our physical understanding of 
 relativistic dynamics and the numerical techniques required to study them,
-a set of computational tools and libraries has been developed with the
+a set of general computational tools and libraries has been developed with the
 aim of providing a computational core that can enable new science,
-broaden the community, facilitate interdisciplinary research and take
+broaden the community, facilitate collaborative and interdisciplinary research,  promote software reuse and take
 advantage of emerging petascale computers and advanced cyberinfrastructure:
-the Cactus computational toolkit~\cite{Cactuscode:web}. While it was 
-developed in large part by computer scientists, its development was driven by
-direct input from other fields, especially numerical relativity, and has
-succeeded in applying expertise in computer science directly to problems in
-numerical relativity.
+the Cactus computational toolkit~\cite{Cactuscode:web}. 
+Although the development of Cactus was driven directly from the numerical relativity community, it was developed in collaboration 
+with computer scientists and other computational fields to facilitate the incorporation of innovations in computational 
+theory and technology. 
 
 This success prompted usage of the {\tt Cactus} computational toolkit in other
 areas, such as ocean forecast models~\cite{Djikstra2005} and chemical reaction