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We apply and test a field-level emulator for non-linear cosmic structure formation in a volume matching next-generation surveys. Inferring the cosmological parameters and initial conditions from which the particular galaxy distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Matthew T. Scoggins , Matthew Ho , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Drew Jamieson , Ludvig Doeser , Greg L. Bryan

Mock halo catalogues are indispensable data products for developing and validating cosmological inference pipelines. A major challenge in generating mock catalogues is modelling the halo or galaxy bias, which is the mapping from matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Simon Ding , Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche

Modern N-body cosmological simulations contain billions ($10^9$) of dark matter particles. These simulations require hundreds to thousands of gigabytes of memory, and employ hundreds to tens of thousands of processing cores on many compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stephen Skory , Matthew J. Turk , Michael L. Norman , Alison L. Coil

In this paper, we describe the implementation and performance of GreeM, a massively parallel TreePM code for large-scale cosmological N-body simulations. GreeM uses a recursive multi-section algorithm for domain decomposition. The size of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tomoaki Ishiyama , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

Approximate N-body methods, such as FastPM and COLA, have been successful in modelling halo and galaxy clustering statistics, but their low resolution on small scales is a limitation for applications that require high precision. Full N-body…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yiheng Wu , Hong Guo , Volker Springel

We introduce FastPM, a highly-scalable approximated particle mesh N-body solver, which implements the particle mesh (PM) scheme enforcing correct linear displacement (1LPT) evolution via modified kick and drift factors. Employing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Yu Feng , Man-Yat Chu , Uros Seljak , Patrick McDonald

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P^3M) simulation code for the T3E well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in cosmological contexts. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tom MacFarland , Jakob Pichlmeier , Frazer Pearce , Hugh Couchman

The numerical simulations of massive collisional stellar systems, such as globular clusters (GCs), are very time-consuming. Until now, only a few realistic million-body simulations of GCs with a small fraction of binaries (5%) have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 Long Wang , Masaki Iwasawa , Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino

We present a high-fidelity realization of the cosmological $N$-body simulation from the Schneider et al. (2016) code comparison project. The simulation was performed with our Abacus $N$-body code, which offers high force accuracy, high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Philip A. Pinto

Next generation galaxy surveys demand the development of massive ensembles of galaxy mocks to model the observables and their covariances, what is computationally prohibitive using $N$-body simulations. COLA is a novel method designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Albert Izard , Martin Crocce , Pablo Fosalba

We present $\texttt{Abacus}$, a fast and accurate cosmological $N$-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Nina A. Maksimova , Philip A. Pinto

We present a new C++ code for collisional N-body simulations of star clusters. The code uses the Hermite fourth-order scheme with block time steps, for advancing the particles in time, while the forces and neighboring particles are computed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Simos Konstantinidis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We present a novel application of cosmological rescaling, or "remapping," to generate 21 cm intensity mapping mocks for different cosmologies. The remapping method allows for computationally efficient generation of N-body catalogs by…

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

Direct-summation N-body algorithms compute the gravitational interaction between stars in an exact way and have a computational complexity of O(N^2). Performance can be greatly enhanced via the use of special-purpose accelerator boards like…

We introduce the cosmological HYPER code based on an innovative hydro-particle-mesh (HPM) algorithm for efficient and rapid simulations of gas and dark matter. For the HPM algorithm, we update the approach of Gnedin & Hui (1998) to expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Yizhou He , Hy Trac , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The numerical simulation of turbulence and flows in almost ideal, large-Reynolds-number astrophysical plasmas motivates the implementation of almost conservative MHD computer codes. They should efficiently calculate, use highly parallelized…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 J. Skála , F. Baruffa , J. Büchner , M. Rampp

Cosmological N-Body simulations are used for a variety of applications. Indeed progress in the study of large scale structures and galaxy formation would have been very limited without this tool. For nearly twenty years the limitations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 J. S. Bagla , Nishikanta Khandai

We explore some of the effects that discreteness and two-body scattering may have on N-body simulations with ``realistic'' cosmological initial conditions. We use an identical subset of particles from the initial conditions for a $128^3$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Randall J. Splinter , Adrian L. Melott , Sergei F. Shandarin , Yasushi Suto

We introduce a set of four new publicly available N-body simulations, the most recent additions to the Texas P^3M Database. Our models probe the less studied parameter space region of moderate volume (100/h Mpc box) combined with fine mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsvi Piran , Hagai El-Ad , Hugo Martel , Myron Lecar