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The paper presents a numerical implementation of the gravitational N-body problem with contact interactions between non-spherically shaped bodies. The work builds up on a previous implementation of the code and extends its capabilities. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 F. Ferrari , M. Lavagna , E. Blazquez

We describe a new parallel N-body code for cosmological simulations. The code is based on a work- and data sharing scheme, and is implemented within the Cray Research Corporation's CRAFT programming environment. Different data distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. Pagliaro

We describe how long-term solar system orbit integration could be implemented on a parallel computer. The interesting feature of our algorithm is that each processor is assigned not to a planet or a pair of planets but to a time-interval.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Prasenjit Saha , Joachim Stadel , Scott Tremaine

Astrophysical Challenges which demand the solution of the one million (or more) gravitating body problem are briefly discussed for the fields of cosmology, galactic nuclei and globular star clusters. Results from the classical three-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 R. Spurzem , A. Kugel

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) on a commercial NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX designed for gaming computers. The force evaluation of the $N$-body problem is implemented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert G. Belleman , Jeroen Bedorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

Multidimensional nucleosynthesis studies with hundreds of nuclei linked through thousands of nuclear processes are still computationally prohibitive. To date, most nucleosynthesis studies rely either on hydrostatic/hydrodynamic simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 David Martin , Jordi Jose , Richard Longland

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

Large-scale parallel numerical simulations are essential for a wide range of engineering problems that involve complex, coupled physical processes interacting across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The data structures involved…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Fande Kong , Roy H. Stogner , Derek R. Gaston , John W. Peterson , Cody J. Permann , Andrew E. Slaughter , Richard C. Martineau

I describe here the performance of a parallel treecode with individual particle timesteps. The code is based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm and runs cosmological N-body simulations on parallel machines with a distributed memory architecture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Valdarnini

We present performance measurements of direct gravitational N -body simulation on the grid, with and without specialized (GRAPE-6) hardware. Our inter-continental virtual organization consists of three sites, one in Tokyo, one in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Derek Groen , Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Jun Makino

We present results from our cosmological N-body simulation which consisted of 2048x2048x2048 particles and ran distributed across three supercomputers throughout Europe. The run, which was performed as the concluding phase of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-27 Derek Groen , Steven Rieder , Simon Portegies Zwart

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hao-Ran Yu , Bing-Hang Chen , Kun Xu , Ming-Jie Sheng , Jiaxin Han , Yipeng Jing , Huahua Cui

In this paper, we describe the performance of an $N$-body simulation of star cluster with 64k stars on a Cray XD1 system with 400 dual-core Opteron processors. A number of astrophysical $N$-body simulations were reported in SCxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , George Abe

We present a parallel implementation of the particle-particle/particle-mesh (P3M) algorithm for distributed memory clusters. The GRACOS (GRAvitational COSmology) code uses a hybrid method for both computation and domain decomposition.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shirokov , Edmund Bertschinger

This paper introduces a parallel directional fast multipole method (FMM) for solving N-body problems with highly oscillatory kernels, with a focus on the Helmholtz kernel in three dimensions. This class of oscillatory kernels requires a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Austin R. Benson , Jack Poulson , Kenneth Tran , Björn Engquist , Lexing Ying

We present a new C++ code for collisional N-body simulations of star clusters. The code uses the Hermite fourth-order scheme with block time steps, for advancing the particles in time, while the forces and neighboring particles are computed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Simos Konstantinidis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

Efficient implementations of the classical molecular dynamics (MD) method for Lennard-Jones particle systems are considered. Not only general algorithms but also techniques that are efficient for some specific CPU architectures are also…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 H. Watanabe , M. Suzuki , N. Ito

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

Direct $N$-body simulations of a large number of particles, especially in the study of planetesimal dynamics and planet formation, have been computationally challenging even with modern machines. This work presents the combination of fully…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 Tommy Chi Ho Lau , Man Hoi Lee

We report on the performance of our cold-dark matter cosmological N-body simulation which was carried out concurrently using supercomputers across the globe. We ran simulations on 60 to 750 cores distributed over a variety of supercomputers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-01-25 Derek Groen , Simon Portegies Zwart , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Junichiro Makino