English
Related papers

Related papers: Computational Gravitational Dynamics with Modern N…

200 papers

Accurate direct $N$-body simulations help to obtain detailed information about the dynamical evolution of star clusters. They also enable comparisons with analytical models and Fokker-Planck or Monte-Carlo methods. NBODY6 is a well-known…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Long Wang , Rainer Spurzem , Sverre Aarseth , Keigo Nitadori , Peter Berczik , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Thorsten Naab

We present parallel algorithms for constructing and traversing sparse octrees on graphics processing units (GPUs). The algorithms are based on parallel-scan and sort methods. To test the performance and feasibility, we implemented them in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-11 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

This posting announces public availability of the GALAXY software package developed by the author over the past 40 years. It is a highly efficient code for the evolution of (almost) isolated, collisionless stellar systems, both disk-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-26 J. A. Sellwood

A systolic algorithm rhythmically computes and passes data through a network of processors. We investigate the performance of systolic algorithms for implementing the gravitational N-body problem on distributed-memory computers. Systolic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. N. Dorband , Marc Hemsendorf , David Merritt

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

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

We present and discuss the characteristics and performances, both in term of computational speed and precision, of a numerical code which numerically integrates the equation of motions of N 'particles' interacting via Newtonian gravitation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , D. Maschietti

High-performance graphical processing units (GPU) are used for the repeated parallelised propagation of non-linear partial differential equations on large spatio-temporal grids. The main challenge results as a combination of the requirement…

In this short review we present the developments over the last 5 decades that have led to the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for astrophysical simulations. Since the introduction of NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeroen Bédorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

Cosmological N-Body simulations have become an essential tool for studying formation of large scale structure. These simulations are computationally challenging even though the available computing power gets better every year. A number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bagla

Special high-accuracy direct force summation N-body algorithms and their relevance for the simulation of the dynamical evolution of star clusters and other gravitating N-body systems in astrophysics are presented, explained and compared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Spurzem

We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with different kinds of GPU hardware. These clusters are directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 P. Berczik , R. Spurzem , L. Wang , S. Zhong , O. Veles , I. Zinchenko , S. Huang , M. Tsai , G. Kennedy , S. Li , L. Naso , C. Li

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

We describe an open source GPU implementation of a hybrid symplectic N-body integrator, GENGA (Gravitational ENcounters with Gpu Acceleration), designed to integrate planet and planetesimal dynamics in the late stage of planet formation and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-06 Simon L. Grimm , Joachim G. Stadel

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

Gravitational $N$-body simulations calculate numerous interactions between particles. The tree algorithm reduces these calculations by constructing a hierarchical oct-tree structure and approximating gravitational forces on particles. Over…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoyuki Tokuue , Tomoaki Ishiyama

We describe a novel N-body code designed for simulations of the central regions of galaxies containing massive black holes. The code incorporates Mikkola's 'algorithmic' chain regularization scheme including post-Newtonian terms up to PN2.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Harfst , A. Gualandris , D. Merritt , S. Mikkola

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

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

In this paper, we present a new hybrid algorithm for the time integration of collisional N-body systems. In this algorithm, gravitational force between two particles is divided into short-range and long-range terms, using a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Shoichi Oshino , Yoko Funato , Junichiro Makino