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Analysis of processing time and similarity of images generated between CPU and GPU architectures and sequential and parallel programming. For image processing a computer with AMD FX-8350 processor and an Nvidia GTX 960 Maxwell GPU was used,…

In this work, we have explored the advantages and drawbacks of using GPUs instead of CPUs in the calculation of a standard 2-point correlation function algorithm, which is useful for the analysis of Large Scale Structure of galaxies. Taking…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-01 Rafael Ponce , Miguel Cardenas-Montes , Juan Jose Rodriguez-Vazquez , Eusebio Sanchez , Ignacio Sevilla

We present a new very fast tree-code which runs on massively parallel Graphical Processing Units (GPU) with NVIDIA CUDA architecture. The tree-construction and calculation of multipole moments is carried out on the host CPU, while the force…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-15 Evghenii Gaburov , Jeroen Bédorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

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

We present a high-performance N-body code for self-gravitating collisional systems accelerated with the aid of a new SIMD instruction set extension of the x86 architecture: Advanced Vector eXtensions (AVX), an enhanced version of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Okamoto , Keigo Nitadori

This paper is aimed at improving the performance of the treecode algorithm for N-Body simulation by employing the NetSolve GridRPC programming model to exploit the use of multiple clusters. N-Body is a classical problem, and appears in many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Truong Vinh Truong Duy , Katsuhiro Yamazaki , Shigeru Oyanagi

We present a high-fidelity realization of the cosmological $N$-body simulation from the Schneider et al. (2016) code comparison project. The simulation was performed with our Abacus $N$-body code, which offers high force accuracy, high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Philip A. Pinto

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the commercial graphics processing units (GPU) NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 and GeForce 8800GTX, and compare the results with GRAPE-6Af special purpose hardware. The force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Portegies Zwart , Robert Belleman , Peter Geldof

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

N-body codes to perform simulations of the origin and evolution of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe have improved significantly over the past decade both in terms of the resolution achieved and of reduction of the CPU time.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , M. Gambera

GPU computing is popular due to the calculation potential of a single card. The N-body integrator GENGA is built to for this, but it suffers a performance penalty on consumer-grade GPUs due to their truncated double precision (FP64)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 R. Brasser , S. L. Grimm , P. Hatalova , J. G. Stadel

We have preliminary results on the parallelization of a Tree-Code for evaluating gravitational forces in N-body astrophysical systems. For our Cray T3D/CRAFT implementation, we have obtained an encouraging speed-up behavior, which reaches a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Miocchi

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

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

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair

Analysis of large galaxy surveys requires confidence in the robustness of numerical simulation methods. The simulations are used to construct mock galaxy catalogs to validate data analysis pipelines and identify potential systematics. We…

We present a highly parallel implementation of the cross-correlation of time-series data using graphics processing units (GPUs), which is scalable to hundreds of independent inputs and suitable for the processing of signals from "Large-N"…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 M. A. Clark , P. C. La Plante , L. J. Greenhill

We present the first detailed comparison between million-body globular cluster simulations computed with a H\'enon-type Monte Carlo code, CMC, and a direct $N$-body code, NBODY6++GPU. Both simulations start from an identical cluster model…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carl L. Rodriguez , Meagan Morscher , Long Wang , Sourav Chatterjee , Frederic A. Rasio , Rainer Spurzem

We present a new implementation of the numerical integration of the classical, gravitational, N-body problem based on a high order Hermite's integration scheme with block time steps, with a direct evaluation of the particle-particle forces.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , M. Spera , D. Punzo

The increasing complexity and scale of cosmological N-body simulations, driven by astronomical surveys like Euclid, call for a paradigm shift towards more sustainable and energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC). The rising energy…