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We present Swarm-NG, a C++ library for the efficient direct integration of many n-body systems using highly-parallel Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), such as NVIDIA's Tesla T10 and M2070 GPUs. While previous studies have demonstrated the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Saleh Dindar , Eric B. Ford , Mario Juric , Young In Yeo , Jianwei Gao , Aaron C. Boley , Benjamin Nelson , Jorg Peters

Kernels are executable code segments and kernel fusion is a technique for combing the segments in a coherent manner to improve execution time. For the first time, we have developed a technique to fuse image processing kernels to be executed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Asif M Adnan , Sridhar Radhakrishnan , Suleyman Karabuk

CPU-GPU heterogeneous systems are now commonly used in HPC (High-Performance Computing). However, improving the utilization and energy-efficiency of such systems is still one of the most critical issues. As one single program typically…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Eishi Arima , Minjoon Kang , Issa Saba , Josef Weidendorfer , Carsten Trinitis , Martin Schulz

We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

The conservative Post-Newtonian (PN) Hamiltonian formulation of spinning compact binaries has six integrals of motion including the total energy, the total angular momentum and the constant unit lengths of spins. The manifold correction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Chong-xi Ran , Song Liu , Shuang-ying Zhong

Modern supercomputers are increasingly relying on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and other accelerators to achieve exa-scale performance at reasonable energy usage. The challenge of exploiting these accelerators is the incompatibility…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 M. Cianciosa , D. Batchelor , W. Elwasif

In this review we discuss Cosmological N-Body codes with a special emphasis on Particle Mesh codes. We present the mathematical model for each component of N-Body codes. We compare alternative methods for computing each quantity by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. S. Bagla , T. Padmanabhan

The conservation of energy, linear momentum and angular momentum are important drivers for our physical understanding of the evolution of the Universe. These quantities are also conserved in Newton's laws of motion under gravity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Simon Portegies Zwart , Tjarda Boekholt

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

Granular materials are of critical interest to many robotic tasks in planetary science, construction, and manufacturing. However, the dynamics of granular materials are complex and often computationally very expensive to simulate. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-05 David Millard , Daniel Pastor , Joseph Bowkett , Paul Backes , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

In a previous work a procedure was decribed for dividing the $3 \times N$-dimensional conformational space of a molecular system into a number of discrete cells, this partition allowed the building of a combinatorial structure from data…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Jacques Gabarro-Arpa

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

We present a hybrid technique of N-body simulation to deal with collisionless stellar systems having an inhomogeneous global structure. We combine a treecode and a self-consistent field code such that each of the codes model a different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Vine , S. Sigurdsson

In this paper, we accelerate a gravitational physics numerical modelling application using hardware accelerators -- Cell processor and Tesla CUDA GPU. We describe these new technologies and our approach in detail, and then present our final…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-23 Gaurav Khanna , Justin McKennon

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

We review what has been learned recently using N-body simulations about the evolution of globular clusters. While simulations of star clusters have become more realistic, and now include the evolution of single and binary stars, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas C. Heggie

This article presents new algorithms for massively parallel granular dynamics simulations on distributed memory architectures using a domain partitioning approach. Collisions are modelled with hard contacts in order to hide their…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Tobias Preclik , Ulrich Rüde

A principally novel approach towards solving the few-particle (many-dimensional) quantum scattering problems is described. The approach is based on a complete discretization of few-particle continuum and usage of massively parallel…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 V. N. Pomerantsev , V. I. Kukulin , O. A. Rubtsova , S. K. Sakhiev

Current AI code generation systems suffer from significant latency bottlenecks due to CPU-GPU data transfers during compilation, execution, and testing phases. We establish theoretical foundations for three complementary approaches to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Adilet Metinov , Gulida M. Kudakeeva , Gulnara D. Kabaeva

Motivated by the observations on the intra-cluster light (ICL) and inter-galactic stellar populations, n-body simulations are used to model the galactic merging events as a goal to investigate the production and distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-11 Yu-Ting Wu , Ing-Guey Jiang