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We present FlowPM, a Particle-Mesh (PM) cosmological N-body code implemented in Mesh-TensorFlow for GPU-accelerated, distributed, and differentiable simulations. We implement and validate the accuracy of a novel multi-grid scheme based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chirag Modi , Francois Lanusse , Uros Seljak

Fast multipole methods have O(N) complexity, are compute bound, and require very little synchronization, which makes them a favorable algorithm on next-generation supercomputers. Their most common application is to accelerate N-body…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Hatem Ltaief , Rio Yokota

We discuss the performance characteristics of using the modification of the tree code suggested by Barnes \citep{1990JCoPh..87..161B} in the context of the TreePM code. The optimisation involves identifying groups of particles and using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Nishikanta Khandai , J. S. Bagla

In this survey paper, we review recent work on frameworks for the high-level, portable programming of heterogeneous multi-/manycore systems (especially, GPU-based systems) using high-level constructs such as annotated user-level software…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Christoph Kessler , Usman Dastgeer , Lu Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in general-purpose code generation. However, generating the code which is deeply hardware-specific, architecture-aware, and performance-critical, especially for massively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Wentao Chen , Jiace Zhu , Qi Fan , Yehan Ma , An Zou

The kd-tree is a fundamental tool in computer science. Among other applications, the application of kd-tree search (by the tree method) to the fast evaluation of particle interactions and neighbor search is highly important, since the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-21 Naohito Nakasato

We review the recent optimizations of gravitational $N$-body kernels for running them on graphics processing units (GPUs), on single hosts and massive parallel platforms. For each of the two main $N$-body techniques, direct summation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-22 Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

We present the pseudo-particle multipole method (P2M2), a new method to handle multipole expansion in fast multipole method and treecode. This method uses a small number of pseudo-particles to express multipole expansion. With this method,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Atsushi Kawai , Junichiro Makino

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are important tools in life and material sciences since they allow studying chemical and biological processes in detail. However, the inherent scalability problem of particle-particle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Michael Schaffner , Luca Benini

A new implementation of many-body calculations is of paramount importance in the field of computational physics. In this study, we leverage the capabilities of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for conducting quantum many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-17 Songtai Lv , Yang Liang , Yuchen Meng , Xiaochen Yao , Jincheng Xu , Yang Liu , Qibin Zheng , Haiyuan Zou

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

We describe the two-dimensional TreePM method in this paper. The 2d TreePM code is an accurate and efficient technique to carry out large two-dimensional N-body simulations in cosmology. This hybrid code combines the 2d Barnes and Hut Tree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Suryadeep Ray

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

Kernel methods provide an elegant and principled approach to nonparametric learning, but so far could hardly be used in large scale problems, since na\"ive implementations scale poorly with data size. Recent advances have shown the benefits…

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A merge tree is a topological descriptor of a real-valued function. Merge trees are used in visualization and topological data analysis, either directly or as a means to another end: computing a 0-dimensional persistence diagram,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

We present a GPU-accelerated cosmological simulation code, PhotoNs-GPU, based on algorithm of Particle Mesh Fast Multipole Method (PM-FMM), and focus on the GPU utilization and optimization. A proper interpolated method for truncated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Qiao Wang , Chen Meng

The Fast Multipole Method (FMM) is well known to possess a bottleneck arising from decreasing workload on higher levels of the FMM tree [Greengard and Gropp, Comp. Math. Appl., 20(7), 1990]. We show that this potential bottleneck can be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-08-17 Matthew G. Knepley

We investigate a hybrid numerical algorithm aimed at the large-scale cosmological N-body simulation for the on-going and the future high precious sky surveys. It makes use of a truncated Fast Multiple Method (FMM) for short-range gravity,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Qiao Wang

Gravitational $N$-body simulations calculate numerous interactions between particles. The tree algorithm reduces these calculations by constructing a hierarchical oct-tree structure and approximating gravitational forces on particles. Over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoyuki Tokuue , Tomoaki Ishiyama

Improving the computational efficiency of quantum many-body calculations from a hardware perspective remains a critical challenge. Although field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have recently been exploited to improve the computational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-06 Songtai Lv , Yang Liang , Rui Zhu , Qibin Zheng , Haiyuan Zou