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Due to the variety and importance of applications of treecodes and FMM, the combination of algorithmic acceleration with hardware acceleration can have tremendous impact. Alas, programming these algorithms efficiently is no piece of cake.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 Rio Yokota , Lorena Barba

The numerical simulations of massive collisional stellar systems, such as globular clusters (GCs), are very time-consuming. Until now, only a few realistic million-body simulations of GCs with a small fraction of binaries (5%) have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 Long Wang , Masaki Iwasawa , Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino

The increasing complexity and scale of cosmological N-body simulations, driven by astronomical surveys like Euclid, call for a paradigm shift towards more sustainable and energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC). The rising energy…

Gravitational N-body simulations, that is numerical solutions of the equations of motions for N particles interacting gravitationally, are widely used tools in astrophysics, with applications from few body or solar system like systems all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-25 M. Trenti , P. Hut

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) lead to a major increase in the performance of the computation of astrophysical simulations. Owing to the different nature of GPU architecture compared to traditional central processing units (CPUs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Christoph M. Schäfer , Sven Riecker , Thomas I. Maindl , Roland Speith , Samuel Scherrer , Wilhelm Kley

The Nvidia GPU architecture has introduced new computing elements such as the \textit{tensor cores}, which are special processing units dedicated to perform fast matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) operations and accelerate \textit{Deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Roberto Carrasco , Raimundo Vega , Cristóbal A. Navarro

As high energy physics experiments reach higher luminosities and intensities, the computing burden for real time data processing and reduction grows. Following the developments in the computing landscape, multi-core processors such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Dorothea vom Bruch

Modern supercomputers are increasingly relying on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and other accelerators to achieve exa-scale performance at reasonable energy usage. The challenge of exploiting these accelerators is the incompatibility…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 M. Cianciosa , D. Batchelor , W. Elwasif

We present preliminary results on the parallelization of a Tree-Code for evaluating gravitational forces in N-body astrophysical systems. Our HPF/CRAFT implementation on a CRAY T3E machine attained an encouraging speed-up behavior, reaching…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Paolo Miocchi

We present the first detailed comparison between million-body globular cluster simulations computed with a H\'enon-type Monte Carlo code, CMC, and a direct $N$-body code, NBODY6++GPU. Both simulations start from an identical cluster model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carl L. Rodriguez , Meagan Morscher , Long Wang , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio , Rainer Spurzem

Graphics Processing Unit, or GPUs, have been successfully adopted both for graphic computation in 3D applications, and for general purpose application (GP-GPUs), thank to their tremendous performance-per-watt. Recently, there is a big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Paolo Burgio

The N-body problem is a classic problem involving a system of N discrete bodies mutually interacting in a dynamical system. At any moment in time there are N*(N - 1)/2 such interactions occurring. This scaling as N^2 leads to computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alexander Brandt

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a powerful and cost effective processor for general performance computing. GPUs are capable of an order of magnitude more floating-point operations per second as compared to modern central…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-24 Mark Franey , Pritam Ranjan , Hugh Chipman

The conservation of energy, linear momentum and angular momentum are important drivers for our physical understanding of the evolution of the Universe. These quantities are also conserved in Newton's laws of motion under gravity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tjarda Boekholt

This paper is aimed at improving the performance of the treecode algorithm for N-Body simulation by employing the NetSolve GridRPC programming model to exploit the use of multiple clusters. N-Body is a classical problem, and appears in many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Truong Vinh Truong Duy , Katsuhiro Yamazaki , Shigeru Oyanagi

We present implementations of a fourth-order symplectic integrator on graphic processing units for three $N$-body models with long-range interactions of general interest: the Hamiltonian Mean Field, Ring and two-dimensional self-gravitating…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Tarcísio M. Rocha Filho

We use the graphics processing unit (GPU) for fast calculations of helicity amplitudes of physics processes. As our first attempt, we compute $u\bar{u}\to n\gamma$ ($n=2$ to 8) processes in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 14$TeV by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 K. Hagiwara , J. Kanzaki , N. Okamura , D. Rainwater , T. Stelzer

Simulations of standard 1D and 2D quantum walks have been performed within Quantum Computer Simulator (QCS system) environment and with the use of GPU supported by CUDA technology. In particular, simulations of quantum walks may be seen as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Marek Sawerwain , Roman Gielerak

Elegant is an accelerator physics and particle-beam dynamics code widely used for modeling and design of a variety of high-energy particle accelerators and accelerator-based systems. In this paper we discuss a recently developed version of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 J. R. King , I. V. Pogorelov , K. M. Amyx , M. Borland , R. Soliday

Due to the very long timescales involved (us-s), theoretical modeling of fundamental biological processes including folding, misfolding, and mechanical unraveling of biomolecules, under physiologically relevant conditions, is challenging…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-08 A. Zhmurov , R. I. Dima , Y. Kholodov , V. Barsegov