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The main performance bottleneck of gravitational N-body codes is the force calculation between two particles. We have succeeded in speeding up this pair-wise force calculation by factors between two and ten, depending on the code and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , Piet Hut

With the advent of high-performance computing techniques, the data for analysis has grown significantly. Here, graphic processing unit (GPU) based program kernels are discussed to exploit parallelism in the analysis codes specific to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Gourav Shrivastav , Manish Agarwal

A wide variety of outstanding problems in astrophysics involve the motion of a large number of particles ($N\gtrsim 10^{6}$) under the force of gravity. These include the global evolution of globular clusters, tidal disruptions of stars by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Cristián Maureira-Fredes , Pau Amaro-Seoane

In this paper, we discuss software design issues related to the development of parallel computational intelligence algorithms on multi-core CPUs, using the new Java 8 functional programming features. In particular, we focus on probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Andres R. Masegosa , Ana M. Martinez , Hanen Borchani

Accurate direct $N$-body simulations help to obtain detailed information about the dynamical evolution of star clusters. They also enable comparisons with analytical models and Fokker-Planck or Monte-Carlo methods. NBODY6 is a well-known…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Long Wang , Rainer Spurzem , Sverre Aarseth , Keigo Nitadori , Peter Berczik , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Thorsten Naab

This paper introduces a parallel implementation in CUDA/C++ of the Gaussian process with a decomposed kernel. This recent formulation, introduced by Joukov and Kuli\'c (2022), is characterized by an approximated -- but much smaller --…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Davide Carminati

We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with different kinds of GPU hardware. These clusters are directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 P. Berczik , R. Spurzem , L. Wang , S. Zhong , O. Veles , I. Zinchenko , S. Huang , M. Tsai , G. Kennedy , S. Li , L. Naso , C. Li

N-body codes to perform simulations of the origin and evolution of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe have improved significantly over the past decade both in terms of the resolution achieved and of reduction of the CPU time.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , M. Gambera

We present a new parallel PM N-body code named PMFAST that is freely available to the public. PMFAST is based on a two-level mesh gravity solver where the gravitational forces are separated into long and short range components. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugh Merz , Ue-Li Pen , Hy Trac

The Tree-Particle-Mesh (TPM) N-body algorithm couples the tree algorithm for directly computing forces on particles in an hierarchical grouping scheme with the extremely efficient mesh based PM structured approach. The combined TPM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Guohong Xu

Fast Multipole Methods (FMM) are a fundamental operation for the simulation of many physical problems. The high performance design of such methods usually requires to carefully tune the algorithm for both the targeted physics and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Emmanuel Agullo , Béranger Bramas , Olivier Coulaud , Eric Darve , Matthias Messner , Takahashi Toru

The approximate computation of all gravitational forces between $N$ interacting particles via the fast multipole method (FMM) can be made as accurate as direct summation, but requires less than $\mathcal{O}(N)$ operations. FMM groups…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-12 Walter Dehnen

In this paper, we describe our vectorized and parallelized adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) N-body code with shared time steps, and report its performance on a Fujitsu VPP5000 vector-parallel supercomputer. Our AMR N-body code puts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Hideki Yahagi

This article presents new algorithms for massively parallel granular dynamics simulations on distributed memory architectures using a domain partitioning approach. Collisions are modelled with hard contacts in order to hide their…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Tobias Preclik , Ulrich Rüde

In order to satisfy timing constraints, modern real-time applications require massively parallel accelerators such as General Purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPGPUs). Generation after generation, the number of computing clusters made…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Houssam-Eddine Zahaf , Ignacio Sanudo Olmedo , Jayati Singh , Nicola Capodieci , Sebastien Faucou

We present $\texttt{Abacus}$, a fast and accurate cosmological $N$-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Nina A. Maksimova , Philip A. Pinto

We present parallelization of a quantum-chemical tree-code [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 106}, 5526 (1997)] for linear scaling computation of the Coulomb matrix. Equal time partition [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 118}, 9128 (2003)] is used to load balance…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Chee Kwan Gan , C. J. Tymczak , Matt Challacombe

A massively parallel order-N electronic structure theory was constructed by an interdisciplinary research between physics, applied mathematics and computer science. (1) A high parallel efficiency with ten-million-atom nanomaterials was…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-29 Takeo Hoshi , Yohei Akiyama , Tatsunori Tanaka , Takahisa Ohno

Special high-accuracy direct force summation N-body algorithms and their relevance for the simulation of the dynamical evolution of star clusters and other gravitating N-body systems in astrophysics are presented, explained and compared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Spurzem

We present a novel, highly efficient algorithm to parallelize O(N^2) direct summation method for N-body problems with individual timesteps on distributed-memory parallel machines such as Beowulf clusters. Previously known algorithms, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Junichiro Makino