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We design a novel, exactly energy-conserving implicit non-symplectic integration method for an eight-dimensional Hamiltonian system with four degrees of freedom. In our algorithm, each partial derivative of the Hamiltonian with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-30 Shiyang Hu , Xin Wu , Guoqing Huang , Enwei Liang

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

The complex structure of interplanetary magnetic fields and their variability, due to solar activity, make it necessary to compute the Cosmic Ray (CR) modulation with numerical simulations. COde for a Speedy Monte Carlo (MC) Involving Cuda…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Giovanni Cavallotto , Stefano Della Torre , Giuseppe La Vacca , Massimo Gervasi

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 compare the performance of two very different parallel gravitational $N$-body codes for astrophysical simulations on large GPU clusters, both pioneer in their own fields as well as in certain mutual scales - NBODY6++ and Bonsai. We carry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Siyi Huang , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) lead to a major increase in the performance of the computation of astrophysical simulations. Owing to the different nature of GPU architecture compared to traditional central processing units (CPUs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Christoph M. Schäfer , Sven Riecker , Thomas I. Maindl , Roland Speith , Samuel Scherrer , Wilhelm Kley

Large n-body simulations with fully interacting objects represent the next frontier in computational planetary formation studies. In this paper, we present Mercury-Opal, the GPU-accelerated version of the n-body planet formation code…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Paolo Simonetti , Diego Turrini , Romolo Politi , Scigé J. Liu , Sergio Fonte , Danae Polychroni , Stavro Lambrov Ivanovski

We have newly developed a Parallelized Particle-Particle Particle-tree code for Planet formation, PENTACLE, which is a parallelized hybrid $N$-body integrator executed on a CPU-based (super)computer. PENTACLE uses a 4th-order Hermite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Masaki Iwasawa , Shoichi Oshino , Michiko S. Fujii , Yasunori Hori

In atomistic spin dynamics simulations, the time cost of constructing the space- and time-displaced pair correlation function in real space increases quadratically as the number of spins $N$, leading to significant computational effort. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Hongwei Chen , Shiyang Chen , Joshua J. Turner , Adrian Feiguin

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are important tools in life and material sciences since they allow studying chemical and biological processes in detail. However, the inherent scalability problem of particle-particle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Michael Schaffner , Luca Benini

Astrophysical direct $N$-body methods have been one of the first production algorithms to be implemented using NVIDIA's CUDA architecture. Now, almost seven years later, the GPU is the most used accelerator device in astronomy for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-15 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

Elegant is an accelerator physics and particle-beam dynamics code widely used for modeling and design of a variety of high-energy particle accelerators and accelerator-based systems. In this paper we discuss a recently developed version of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 J. R. King , I. V. Pogorelov , K. M. Amyx , M. Borland , R. Soliday

Upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys aim to achieve an unprecedented level of precision in measuring galaxy clustering. However, accurately modeling these statistics may require theoretical templates that go beyond second-order…

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We present a GPU-accelerated cosmological simulation code, PhotoNs-GPU, based on algorithm of Particle Mesh Fast Multipole Method (PM-FMM), and focus on the GPU utilization and optimization. A proper interpolated method for truncated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Qiao Wang , Chen Meng

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

Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) is a state-of-the-art machine learning method based on evolutionary computation. GSGP performs search operations directly at the level of program semantics, which can be done more efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Leonardo Trujillo , Jose Manuel Muñoz Contreras , Daniel E Hernandez , Mauro Castelli , Juan J Tapia

Despite the close relationship between planetary science and plasma physics, few advanced numerical tools allow to bridge the two topics. The code Menura proposes a breakthrough towards the self-consistent modelling of these overlapping…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Etienne Behar , Shahab Fatemi , Pierre Henri , Mats Holmstrom

We present a novel method for efficient direct integration of gravitational N-body systems with a large variation in characteristic time scales. The method is based on a recursive and adaptive partitioning of the system based on the…

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We describe Pegasus, a new hybrid-kinetic particle-in-cell code tailored for the study of astrophysical plasma dynamics. The code incorporates an energy-conserving particle integrator into a stable, second-order--accurate, three-stage…

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