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Time-symmetric integration schemes share with symplectic schemes the property that their energy errors show a much better behavior than is the case for generic integration schemes. Allowing adaptive time steps typically leads to a loss of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Murat Kaplan , Hasan Saygin , Piet Hut , Jun Makino

We present the numerical methods and GPU-accelerated implementation underlying a Total Lagrangian finite element framework for finite-deformation flexible multibody dynamics, introduced in the companion paper [1]. The framework supports…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhenhao Zhou , Ruochun Zhang , Ganesh Arivoli , Dan Negrut

In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GraCCA system, a Graphic-Card Cluster for Astrophysics simulations. It consists of 16 nodes, with each node equipped with 2 modern graphic cards, the NVIDIA GeForce 8800…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hsi-Yu Schive , Chia-Hung Chien , Shing-Kwong Wong , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

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

We present a novel lossless universal source coding algorithm that uses parallel computational units to increase the throughput. The length-$N$ input sequence is partitioned into $B$ blocks. Processing each block independently of the other…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-27 Nikhil Krishnan , Dror Baron , Mehmet Kıvanç Mıhçak

We present a highly general implementation of fast multipole methods on graphics processing units (GPUs). Our two-dimensional double precision code features an asymmetric type of adaptive space discretization leading to a particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Anders Goude , Stefan Engblom

We present a GPU-accelerated version of the real-space SPARC electronic structure code for performing hybrid functional calculations in generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory. In particular, we develop a batch variant of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Xin Jing , Abhiraj Sharma , John E. Pask , Phanish Suryanarayana

We present preliminary performance results of gPLUTO, the new GPU-optimized implementation of the PLUTO code for computational plasma astrophysics. Like its predecessor, gPLUTO employs a finite-volume formulation to numerically solve the…

We describe a parallel, cosmological N-body code based on a hybrid scheme using the particle-mesh (PM) and Barnes-Hut (BH) oct-tree algorithm. We call the algorithm GOTPM for Grid-of-Oct-Trees-Particle-Mesh. The code is parallelized using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John Dubinski , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park , Robin Humble

We present a highly parallel implementation of the cross-correlation of time-series data using graphics processing units (GPUs), which is scalable to hundreds of independent inputs and suitable for the processing of signals from "Large-N"…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 M. A. Clark , P. C. La Plante , L. J. Greenhill

We present a technique designed for parallelizing large rigid body simulations, capable of exploiting multiple CPU cores within a computer and across a network. Our approach can be applied to simulate both unilateral and bilateral…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Manas Kale , Paul G. Kry

We employ the Partially Saturated Cells Method (PSM) to model the interaction between the fluid flow and solid moving objects as an extension to the conventional lattice Boltzmann method. We introduce an efficient and accurate method for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-28 P. Suffa , S. Kemmler , H. Koestler , U. Ruede

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

We revisit a method to incorporate the Vainshtein screening mechanism in N-body simulations proposed by R. Scoccimarro in~\cite{Scoccimarro:2009eu}. We further extend this method to cover a subset of Horndeski theories that evade the bound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Guilherme Brando , Kazuya Koyama , Hans A. Winther

Computing problems that handle large amounts of data necessitate the use of lossless data compression for efficient storage and transmission. We present a novel lossless universal data compression algorithm that uses parallel computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nikhil Krishnan , Dror Baron

Cosmological measurements require the calculation of nontrivial quantities over large datasets. The next generation of survey telescopes (such as DES, PanSTARRS, and LSST) will yield measurements of billions of galaxies. The scale of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Deborah Bard , Matthew Bellis , Mark T. Allen , Hasmik Yepremyan , Jan M. Kratochvil

A systolic algorithm rhythmically computes and passes data through a network of processors. We investigate the performance of systolic algorithms for implementing the gravitational N-body problem on distributed-memory computers. Systolic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. N. Dorband , Marc Hemsendorf , David Merritt

Classical simulation of quantum circuits remains indispensable for algorithm development, hardware validation, and error analysis in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. However, state-vector simulation faces exponential memory…

In this paper, we present a new hybrid algorithm for the time integration of collisional N-body systems. In this algorithm, gravitational force between two particles is divided into short-range and long-range terms, using a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Shoichi Oshino , Yoko Funato , Junichiro Makino

NIMASTEP is a dedicated numerical software developed by us, which allows one to integrate the osculating motion (using cartesian coordinates) in a Newtonian approach of an object considered as a point-mass orbiting a homogeneous central…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 N. Delsate , A. Compère