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In this study, the gravitational octree code originally optimized for the Fermi, Kepler, and Maxwell GPU architectures is adapted to the Volta architecture. The Volta architecture introduces independent thread scheduling requiring either…

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I describe here the performances of a parallel treecode with individual particle timesteps. The code is based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm and runs cosmological N-body simulations on parallel machines with a distributed memory architecture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Valdarnini

Most recent progress in understanding the dynamical evolution of star clusters relies on direct N-body simulations. Owing to the computational demands, and the desire to model more complex and more massive star clusters, hardware…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 P. Anders , H. Baumgardt , E. Gaburov , S. Portegies Zwart

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hao-Ran Yu , Bing-Hang Chen , Kun Xu , Ming-Jie Sheng , Jiaxin Han , Yipeng Jing , Huahua Cui

Modeling of collisionless galactic systems is based on the N-body model, which requires large computational resources due to the long-range nature of gravitational forces. The most common method for calculating gravity is the TreeCode…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Nikolay M. Kuzmin , Danila S. Sirotin , Alexander V. Khoperskov

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 measurements require the calculation of nontrivial quantities over large datasets. The next generation of survey telescopes (such as DES, PanSTARRS, and LSST) will yield measurements of billions of galaxies. The scale of these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Deborah Bard , Matthew Bellis , Mark T. Allen , Hasmik Yepremyan , Jan M. Kratochvil

A wide variety of outstanding problems in astrophysics involve the motion of a large number of particles ($N\gtrsim 10^{6}$) under the force of gravity. These include the global evolution of globular clusters, tidal disruptions of stars by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Cristián Maureira-Fredes , Pau Amaro-Seoane

Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Jizhou Liu , Fang Q. Hu , Xiaodong Li

In this study, an $N$-body simulation code was developed for self-gravitating systems with a limited first-order post-Newtonian approximation. The code was applied to a special case in which the system consists of one massive object and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-27 Takayuki Tatekawa

Generation of optimal codes is a well known problem in coding theory. Many computational approaches exist in the literature for finding record breaking codes. However generating codes with long lengths $n$ using serial algorithms is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Srajan Paliwal , Saurabh Tiwary , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Manish K. Gupta

In this paper, we describe the design and performance of GRAPE-6A, a special-purpose computer for gravitational many-body simulations. It was designed to be used with a PC cluster, in which each node has one GRAPE-6A. Such configuration is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino , Atsushi Kawai

I describe here the performance of a parallel treecode with individual particle timesteps. The code is based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm and runs cosmological N-body simulations on parallel machines with a distributed memory architecture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Valdarnini

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

The gravitational many-body problem is a problem concerning the movement of bodies, which are interacting through gravity. However, solving the gravitational many-body problem with a CPU takes a lot of time due to O(N^2) computational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-24 Kazuki Fujiwara , Naohito Nakasato

We present an algorithm named "Chamomile Scheme". The scheme is fully optimized for calculating gravitational interactions on the latest programmable Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), NVIDIA GeForce8800GTX, which has (a) small but fast shared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tsuyoshi Hamada , Toshiaki Iitaka

In this paper, we report the implementation and measured performance of our extreme-scale global simulation code on Sunway TaihuLight and two PEZY-SC2 systems: Shoubu System B and Gyoukou. The numerical algorithm is the parallel Barnes-Hut…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-05 Masaki Iwasawa , Daisuke Namekata , Ryo Sakamoto , Takashi Nakamura , Yasuyuki Kimura , Keigo Nitadori , Long Wang , Miyuki Tsubouchi , Jun Makino , Zhao Liu , Haohuan Fu , Guangwen Yang

The paper presents a numerical implementation of the gravitational N-body problem with contact interactions between non-spherically shaped bodies. The work builds up on a previous implementation of the code and extends its capabilities. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 F. Ferrari , M. Lavagna , E. Blazquez

In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GraCCA system, a Graphic-Card Cluster for Astrophysics simulations. It consists of 16 nodes, with each node equipped with 2 modern graphic cards, the NVIDIA GeForce 8800…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hsi-Yu Schive , Chia-Hung Chien , Shing-Kwong Wong , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

The main performance bottleneck of gravitational N-body codes is the force calculation between two particles. We have succeeded in speeding up this pair-wise force calculation by factors between two and ten, depending on the code and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , Piet Hut