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The numerical simulations of massive collisional stellar systems, such as globular clusters (GCs), are very time-consuming. Until now, only a few realistic million-body simulations of GCs with a small fraction of binaries (5%) have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-28 Long Wang , Masaki Iwasawa , Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino

We present preliminary performance results of gPLUTO, the new GPU-optimized implementation of the PLUTO code for computational plasma astrophysics. Like its predecessor, gPLUTO employs a finite-volume formulation to numerically solve the…

The integration of the equations of motion of N interacting particles, represents a classical problem in many branches of physics and chemistry. The direct N-body problem is at the heart of simulations studying Coulomb Crystals. We present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Jofre Pedregosa-Gutierrez , Jim Dempsey

(Abridged) We have developed a numerical software library for collisionless N-body simulations named "Phantom-GRAPE" which highly accelerates force calculations among particles by use of a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Keigo Nitadori , Takashi Okamoto

While most robotics simulation libraries are built for low-dimensional and intrinsically serial tasks, soft-body and multi-agent robotics have created a demand for simulation environments that can model many interacting bodies in parallel.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jacob Austin , Rafael Corrales-Fatou , Sofia Wyetzner , Hod Lipson

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

This paper introduces soliton_solver, an open-source GPU-accelerated software package for the simulation and real-time visualization of topological solitons in two-dimensional non-linear field theories. The software is structured around a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-26 Paul Leask

Direct gravitational simulations of n-body systems have a time complexity O(n^2), which gets computationally expensive as the number of bodies increases. Distributing this workload to multiple cores significantly speeds up the computation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-30 Dhananjay Saikumar

Parallel computing can offer an enormous advantage regarding the performance for very large applications in almost any field: scientific computing, computer vision, databases, data mining, and economics. GPUs are high performance many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Bogdan Oancea , Tudorel Andrei , Raluca Mariana Dragoescu

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

We present a GPU-accelerated cosmological simulation code, PhotoNs-GPU, based on algorithm of Particle Mesh Fast Multipole Method (PM-FMM), and focus on the GPU utilization and optimization. A proper interpolated method for truncated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Qiao Wang , Chen Meng

As Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have gained in capability and GPU development environments have matured, developers are increasingly turning to the GPU to off-load the main host CPU of numerically-intensive, parallelizable computations.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-01 David S. Hardin , Samuel S. Hardin

A number of scientific numerical codes can currently exploit GPUs with remarkable performance. In astrophysics, Enzo and Ramses are prime examples of such applications. The two codes have been ported to GPUs adopting different strategies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Claudio Gheller , Peng Wang , Franco Vazza , Romain Teyssier

The paper presents the aspect of use of modern graphics accelerators supporting CUDA technology for high-performance computing in the field of linear algebra. Fully programmable graphic cards have been available for several years for both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Lukasz Swierczewski

The reproducibility of experiments is one of the main principles of the scientific method. However, numerical N-body experiments, especially those of planetary systems, are currently not reproducible. In the most optimistic scenario, they…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Hanno Rein , Daniel Tamayo

A heterogeneous CPU-GPU node is getting popular in HPC clusters. We need to rethink algorithms and optimization techniques for such system depending on the relative performance of CPU vs. GPU. In this paper, we report a performance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-07 Naohito Nakasato , Go Ogiya , Yohei Miki , Masao Mori , Ken'ichi Nomoto

Gaussian Processes have become an indispensable part of the spatial statistician's toolbox but are unsuitable for analyzing large dataset because of the significant time and memory needed to fit the associated model exactly. Vecchia…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-18 Zachary James , Joseph Guinness

We present a multi-purpose genetic algorithm, designed and implemented with GPGPU / CUDA parallel computing technology. The model was derived from our CPU serial implementation, named GAME (Genetic Algorithm Model Experiment). It was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Stefano Cavuoti , Mauro Garofalo , Massimo Brescia , Maurizio Paolillo , Antonio Pescape' , Giuseppe Longo , Giorgio Ventre

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

GPUs are the most popular platform for accelerating HPC workloads, such as artificial intelligence and science simulations. However, most microarchitectural research in academia relies on GPU core pipeline designs based on architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Rodrigo Huerta , Mojtaba Abaie Shoushtary , José-Lorenzo Cruz , Antonio González