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Modeling of collisionless galactic systems is based on the N-body model, which requires large computational resources due to the long-range nature of gravitational forces. The most common method for calculating gravity is the TreeCode…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Nikolay M. Kuzmin , Danila S. Sirotin , Alexander V. Khoperskov

A finite-difference Micromagnetic simulation code written in MATLAB is presented with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. The high performance of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is demonstrated compared to a typical Central…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Ru Zhu

Obtaining a thermodynamically accurate phase diagram through numerical calculations is a computationally expensive problem that is crucially important to understanding the complex phenomena of solid state physics, such as superconductivity.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michał Januszewski , Andrzej Ptok , Dawid Crivelli , Bartłomiej Gardas

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for correlation energy in the grid-based projector augmented wave (gpaw) code is accelerated by porting to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture. The acceleration is achieved by grouping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Jun Yan , Lin Li , Christopher O'Grady

Particle tracking simulations with space charge effects are very important for high-intensity proton rings. Since they include not only Hamilton mechanics of a single particle but constructing charge densities and solving Poisson equations…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Yoshinori Kurimoto

We present an algorithm named "Chamomile Scheme". The scheme is fully optimized for calculating gravitational interactions on the latest programmable Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), NVIDIA GeForce8800GTX, which has (a) small but fast shared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsuyoshi Hamada , Toshiaki Iitaka

This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-13 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange , Marc A. Suchard

In this study, an $N$-body simulation code was developed for self-gravitating systems with a limited first-order post-Newtonian approximation. The code was applied to a special case in which the system consists of one massive object and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Takayuki Tatekawa

Most recent progress in understanding the dynamical evolution of star clusters relies on direct N-body simulations. Owing to the computational demands, and the desire to model more complex and more massive star clusters, hardware…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Anders , H. Baumgardt , E. Gaburov , S. Portegies Zwart

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

General purpose computing on graphic processing units (GPU) is a potential method of speeding up scientific computation with low cost and high energy efficiency. We experimented with the particle physics simulation toolkit Geant4 used at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Otto Seiskari , Jukka Kommeri , Tapio Niemi

Graphics processing units have been extensively used to accelerate classical molecular dynamics simulations. However, there is much less progress on the acceleration of force evaluations for many-body potentials compared to pairwise ones.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Wei Chen , Ville Vierimaa , Ari Harju

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

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

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

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now powerful and flexible systems adapted and used for other purposes than graphics calculations (General Purpose computation on GPU -- GPGPU). We present here a prototype to be integrated into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Sylvain Collange , Marc Daumas , David Defour

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful computational tool to study the behavior of macromolecular systems. But many simulations of this field are limited in spatial or temporal scale by the available computational resource. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Ji Xu , Ying Ren , Wei Ge , Xiang Yu , Xiaozhen Yang , Jinghai Li

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) provide impressive computing resources, which can be accessed conveniently through the CUDA programming interface. We describe how GPUs can be used to considerably speed up molecular dynamics (MD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Peter H. Colberg , Felix Höfling

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

The gravitational many-body problem is a problem concerning the movement of bodies, which are interacting through gravity. However, solving the gravitational many-body problem with a CPU takes a lot of time due to O(N^2) computational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-24 Kazuki Fujiwara , Naohito Nakasato