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For decades, people are developing efficient numerical methods for solving the challenging quantum many-body problem, whose Hilbert space grows exponentially with the size of the problem. However, this journey is far from over, as previous…

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 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 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 current and future leading systems adopting heterogeneous architectures, adapting existing models for heterogeneous supercomputers is of urgent need for improving model resolution and reducing modeling uncertainty. This paper presents…

I compare various popular and unpopular techniques for simulating large collisionless stellar systems. I give a quantitative comparison of the raw cpu times required for five separate codes, including tree codes and basis function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J A Sellwood

Neural networks have proven effective for solving many difficult computational problems. Implementing complex neural networks in software is very computationally expensive. To explore the limits of information processing, it will be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Jeffrey M. Shainline , Sonia M. Buckley , Richard P. Mirin , Sae Woo Nam

This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Víctor Ramos-Osuna , Alberto Díaz-Álvarez , Raúl Lara-Cabrera

For decades, researchers have been applying computer simulation to address problems in biology. However, many of these "grand challenges" in computational biology, such as simulating how proteins fold, remained unsolved due to their great…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-01-08 Stefan M. Larson , Christopher D. Snow , Michael Shirts , Vijay S. Pande

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the commercial graphics processing units (GPU) NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 and GeForce 8800GTX, and compare the results with GRAPE-6Af special purpose hardware. The force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Portegies Zwart , Robert Belleman , Peter Geldof

A simple and efficient algorithm of the molecular-dynamics simulation of the hard disk system based on the Event-Driven method is developed. From the analysis of algorithm, the complexity is O(log N) per 1 event, and the constant…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Masaharu Isobe

The aim of this work is to quantitatively evaluate the impact of computation on the energy consumption on ARM MPSoC platforms, exploiting CPUs, embedded GPUs and FPGAs. One of them possibly represents the future of High Performance…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-01 D. Goz , G. Ieronymakis , V. Papaefstathiou , N. Dimou , S. Bertocco , A. Ragagnin , L. Tornatore , G. Taffoni , I. Coretti

Near-term quantum computers will soon reach sizes that are challenging to directly simulate, even when employing the most powerful supercomputers. Yet, the ability to simulate these early devices using classical computers is crucial for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 Thomas Häner , Damian S. Steiger

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 Sapporo, a library for performing high-precision gravitational N-body simulations on NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Our library mimics the GRAPE-6 library, and N-body codes currently running on GRAPE-6 can switch to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Evghenii Gaburov , Stefan Harfst , Simon Portegies Zwart

We present a simple and efficient method to set up spherical structure models for N-body simulations with a multimass technique. This technique reduces by a substantial factor the computer run time needed in order to resolve a given scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-12 Marcel Zemp , Ben Moore , Joachim Stadel , C. Marcella Carollo , Piero Madau

Cosmological N-Body simulations have become an essential tool for studying formation of large scale structure. These simulations are computationally challenging even though the available computing power gets better every year. A number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bagla

Accurate thermal emission models of neutron stars are essential for constraining the dense matter equation of state. However, incorporating realistic magnetic field structures is computationally prohibitive, severely constraining feasible…

We present evidence of the feasibility of using billion core approximate computers to run simple U(1) sigma models, and discuss how the approach might be extended to Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (LQCD) models. This work is motivated by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-02 Alexandra Bates , Joseph Bates

Parallelism of tight-binding molecular dynamics simulations is presented by means of the order-N electronic structure theory with the Wannier states, recently developed (J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 69,3773 (2000)). An application is tested for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Masaaki Geshi , Takeo Hoshi , Takeo Fujiwara