English
Related papers

Related papers: 2HOT: An Improved Parallel Hashed Oct-Tree N-Body …

200 papers

The reproducibility of experiments is one of the main principles of the scientific method. However, numerical N-body experiments, especially those of planetary systems, are currently not reproducible. In the most optimistic scenario, they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

We present a novel $N$-body simulation method that compactifies the infinite spatial extent of the Universe into a finite sphere with isotropic boundary conditions to follow the evolution of the large-scale structure. Our approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , István Csabai , László Dobos

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

In cosmological $N$-body simulations, the representation of dark matter as discrete "macroparticles" suppresses the growth of structure, such that simulations no longer reproduce linear theory on small scales near $k_{\rm Nyquist}$. Marcos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-04 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Marc V. Metchnik , Philip A. Pinto

Direct gravitational simulations of n-body systems have a time complexity O(n^2), which gets computationally expensive as the number of bodies increases. Distributing this workload to multiple cores significantly speeds up the computation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-30 Dhananjay Saikumar

We describe a new implementation of a parallel N-body tree code. The code is load-balanced using the method of orthogonal recursive bisection to subdivide the N-body system into independent rectangular volumes each of which is mapped to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 John Dubinski

The gravitational N-body simulation in the Solar system was performed using different parallel approaches with the comparisons in the computational times and speed-up values being carried out under different model sizes and the number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tailin Zhu

Classical multi-scale methods involving two spatial scales face significant challenges when simulating heterogeneous structures with complicated three-scale spatial configurations. This study proposes an innovative higher-order three-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Hao Dong , Yanqi Wang , Jiale Linghu , Qiang Ma

In this contribution a broad overview of the methodologies of cosmological N-body simulations and a short introduction explaining the general idea behind such simulations is presented. After explaining how to set up the initial conditions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Knebe

Computer simulation with Monte Carlo is an important tool to investigate the function and equilibrium properties of many systems with biological and soft matter materials solvable in solvents. The appropriate treatment of long-range…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Zecheng Gan , Zhenli Xu

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

Direct $N$-body simulations of star clusters are accurate but expensive, largely due to the numerous $\mathcal{O} (N^2)$ pairwise force calculations. To solve the post-million-body problem, it will be necessary to use approximate force…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-24 Diptajyoti Mukherjee , Qirong Zhu , Hy Trac , Carl L. Rodriguez

The integration of the equations of motion of N interacting particles, represents a classical problem in many branches of physics and chemistry. The direct N-body problem is at the heart of simulations studying Coulomb Crystals. We present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Jofre Pedregosa-Gutierrez , Jim Dempsey

We report on the performance of our cold-dark matter cosmological N-body simulation which was carried out concurrently using supercomputers across the globe. We ran simulations on 60 to 750 cores distributed over a variety of supercomputers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-01-25 Derek Groen , Simon Portegies Zwart , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Junichiro Makino

Constraining neutrino mass remains an elusive challenge in modern physics. Precision measurements are expected from several upcoming cosmological probes of large-scale structure. Achieving this goal relies on an equal level of precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 J. D. Emberson , Hao-Ran Yu , Derek Inman , Tong-Jie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Shuo Yuan , Huan-Yu Teng , Hong-Ming Zhu , Xuelei Chen , Zhi-Zhong Xing

We describe the TreePM method for carrying out large N-Body simulations to study formation and evolution of the large scale structure in the Universe. This method is a combination of Barnes and Hut tree code and Particle-Mesh code. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. Bagla

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…

In this article, we apply a new methodology for precision tuning to the N-body problem. Our technique, implemented in a tool named POP, makes it possible to optimize the numerical data types of a program performing floating-point…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Dorra Ben Khalifa , Matthieu Martel

We describe a new method (HOP) for identifying groups of particles in N-body simulations. Having assigned to every particle an estimate of its local density, we associate each particle with the densest of the N_hop particles nearest to it.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Piet Hut

We present the public data release of the AbacusSummit cosmological $N$-body simulation suite, produced with the $\texttt{Abacus}$ $N$-body code on the Summit supercomputer of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. $\texttt{Abacus}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Nina A. Maksimova , Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Thomas P. Satterthwaite