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We present FlowPM, a Particle-Mesh (PM) cosmological N-body code implemented in Mesh-TensorFlow for GPU-accelerated, distributed, and differentiable simulations. We implement and validate the accuracy of a novel multi-grid scheme based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chirag Modi , Francois Lanusse , Uros Seljak

This paper explores the impact of simulator accuracy on architecture design decisions in the general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPGPU) space. We perform a detailed, quantitative analysis of the most popular publicly available GPU…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Mahmoud Khairy , Jain Akshay , Tor Aamodt , Timothy G. Rogers

In early Solar System numerical simulations, where chaos is a primary driver, it is difficult to explore parameter space in a systematic way. In such simulations, stable configurations are hard to come by, and often require special…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Arcelia Hermosillo Ruiz , Ruth Murray-Clay , Kathryn Volk , Rosemary Pike

I compare various popular and unpopular techniques for simulating large collisionless stellar systems. I give a quantitative comparison of the raw cpu times required for five separate codes, including tree codes and basis function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J A Sellwood

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

This paper describes some applications of GPU acceleration in ab initio nuclear structure calculations. Specifically, we discuss GPU acceleration of the software package MFDn, a parallel nuclear structure eigensolver. We modify the matrix…

Mesoscopic simulations of hydrocarbon flow in source shales are challenging, in part due to the heterogeneous shale pores with sizes ranging from a few nanometers to a few micrometers. Additionally, the sub-continuum fluid-fluid and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Yidong Xia , Ansel Blumers , Zhen Li , Lixiang Luo , Yu-Hang Tang , Joshua Kane , Hai Huang , Matthew Andrew , Milind Deo , Jan Goral

We present a gravitational hierarchical N-body code that is designed to run efficiently on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). All parts of the algorithm are executed on the GPU which eliminates the need for data transfer between the Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-12 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

Autonomous robots are increasingly prevalent in our society, emerging in medical care, transportation vehicles, and home assistance. These robots rely on motion planning and collision detection to identify a sequence of movements allowing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Lufei Liu , Liwei Xue , Youssef Mohammed , Jocelyn Zhao , Yuan Hsi Chou , Tor M. Aamodt

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

A modern graphics processing unit (GPU) is able to perform massively parallel scientific computations at low cost. We extend our implementation of the checkerboard algorithm for the two dimensional Ising model [T. Preis et al., J. Comp.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Benjamin Block , Peter Virnau , Tobias Preis

This study evaluates AoS-to-SoA transformations over reduced-precision data layouts for a particle simulation code on several GPU platforms: We hypothesize that SoA fits particularly well to SIMT, while AoS is the preferred storage format…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pawel K. Radtke , Tobias Weinzierl

GPU-based beamforming is a relatively unexplored area in radio astronomy, possibly due to the assumption that any such system will be severely limited by the PCIe bandwidth required to transfer data to the GPU. We have developed a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Alessio Magro , Kristian Zarb Adami , Jack Hickish

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a powerful tool for parallel computing. In the past years the performance and capabilities of GPUs have increased, and the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) - a parallel computing architecture…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-12-17 Ferenc Molnar , Tamas Szakaly , Robert Meszaros , Istvan Lagzi

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

We design, implement, and evaluate GPU-based algorithms for the maximum cardinality matching problem in bipartite graphs. Such algorithms have a variety of applications in computer science, scientific computing, bioinformatics, and other…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Mehmet Deveci , Kamer Kaya , Bora Ucar , Umit V. Catalyurek

Various kinds of applications take advantage of GPUs through automation tools that attempt to automatically exploit the available performance of the GPU's parallel architecture. Directive-based programming models, such as OpenACC, are one…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Kazuaki Matsumura , Simon Garcia De Gonzalo , Antonio J. Peña

We consider Monte Carlo simulations of classical spin models of statistical mechanics using the massively parallel architecture provided by graphics processing units (GPUs). We discuss simulations of models with discrete and continuous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Martin Weigel , Taras Yavors'kii

In this paper, we describe the performance of an $N$-body simulation of star cluster with 64k stars on a Cray XD1 system with 400 dual-core Opteron processors. A number of astrophysical $N$-body simulations were reported in SCxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , George Abe

This paper assesses and reports the experience of ten teams working to port,validate, and benchmark several High Performance Computing applications on a novel GPU-accelerated Arm testbed system. The testbed consists of eight NVIDIA Arm HPC…

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