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We describe the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for speeding up the code NBODY6 which is widely used for direct $N$-body simulations. Over the years, the $N^2$ nature of the direct force calculation has proved a barrier for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Keigo Nitadori , Sverre J. Aarseth

Simulation code for conventional supercomputers serves as a reference for neuromorphic computing systems. The present bottleneck of distributed large-scale spiking neuronal network simulations is the communication between compute nodes.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Melissa Lober , Markus Diesmann , Susanne Kunkel

We present a gravitational hierarchical N-body code that is designed to run efficiently on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). All parts of the algorithm are executed on the GPU which eliminates the need for data transfer between the Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-12 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

We propose a hybrid tree algorithm for reducing calculation and communication cost of collision-less N-body simulations. The concept of our algorithm is that we split interaction force into two parts: hard-force from neighbor particles and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Tsuyoshi Watanabe , Naohito Nakasato

Molecular dynamics facilitates the simulation of a complex system to be analyzed at molecular and atomic levels. Simulations can last a long period of time, even months. Due to this cause the graphics processing units (GPUs) and multi-core…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Iuliana Marin , Nicolae Goga , Maria Goga

This paper presents CUBEP3M, a publicly-available high performance cosmological N-body code and describes many utilities and extensions that have been added to the standard package. These include a memory-light runtime SO halo finder, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ue-Li Pen , Ilian T. Iliev , Hugh Merz , J. D. Emberson , Vincent Desjacques

The subjects and key questions faced by computational astrophysics using N-body simulations are discussed in the fields of globular star cluster dynamics, galactic nuclei and cosmological structure formation. After a comparison of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rainer Spurzem

Self-gravitating astronomical objects often show a central plateau in the density profile (core) whose physical origin is hotly debated. Cores are theoretically expected in N-body systems of maximum entropy, however, they are not present in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Jorge Sanchez Almeida , Ignacio Trujillo

We propose a GPU-accelerated distributed optimization algorithm for controlling multi-phase optimal power flow in active distribution systems with dynamically changing topologies. To handle varying network configurations and enable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Minseok Ryu , Geunyeong Byeon , Kibaek Kim

We use discrete-event simulation to quantify the impact of fiber latency on the efficacy of geo-distributed AI model training with data parallelism. We conclude that the optimum distances between two AI clusters is 10-100km, over which…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ioannis Papavasileiou , Sairam Prabhakar , Indu Kant Deo , Sergejs Makovejs

We present a machine-learning model for generating super-resolution $N$-body simulations with non-vanishing spatial curvature, conditioned on a given low-resolution field, $\Omega_k$, $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$, $\sigma_8$, $h$, and redshift. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Dennis Fremstad , Julian Adamek , David F. Mota

(Abridged) We have developed a numerical software library for collisionless N-body simulations named "Phantom-GRAPE" which highly accelerates force calculations among particles by use of a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Keigo Nitadori , Takashi Okamoto

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

The computational efficiency of a state of the art ab initio quantum transport (QT) solver, capable of revealing the coupled electro-thermal properties of atomically-resolved nano-transistors, has been improved by up to two orders of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Tal Ben-Nun , Guillermo Indalecio Fernández , Timo Schneider , Mathieu Luisier , Torsten Hoefler

The gravitationally-driven evolution of cold dark matter dominates the formation of structure in the Universe over a wide range of length scales. While the longest scales can be treated by perturbation theory, a fully quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katrin Heitmann , Paul M. Ricker , Michael S. Warren , Salman Habib

Understanding the physics of large cosmological surveys down to small (nonlinear) scales will significantly improve our knowledge of the Universe. Large N-body simulations have been built to obtain predictions in the non-linear regime.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Chang Chen , Yin Li , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Anthony Pullen

This paper presents a fast, economical particle-multiple-mesh N-body code optimized for large-N modelling of collisionless dynamical processes, such as black-hole wandering or bar-halo interactions, occurring within isolated galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 John Magorrian

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

Distributed architectures are a route to scalable quantum computing, but the performance of fault-tolerant operations across noisy inter-module links remains poorly characterized. We present circuit-level simulations of two key distributed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 John Stack , Ming Wang , Frank Mueller

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can speed up the numerical solution of various problems in astrophysics including the dynamical evolution of stellar systems; the performance gain can be more than a factor 100 compared to using a Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 Mario Spera
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