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N-body simulations are widely used to simulate the dynamical evolution of a variety of systems, among them star clusters. Much of our understanding of their evolution rests on the results of such direct N-body simulations. They provide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-30 P. Anders , H. Baumgardt , N. Bissantz , S. Portegies Zwart

The large-scale analysis task of deciphering gravitational wave signals in the LISA data stream will be difficult, requiring a large amount of computational resources and extensive development of computational methods. Its high…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 Michael L. Katz , Nikolaos Karnesis , Natalia Korsakova , Jonathan R. Gair , Nikolaos Stergioulas

It is demonstrated how the non-proprietary OpenACC standard of compiler directives may be used to compactly and efficiently accelerate the rate-determining steps of two of the most routinely applied many-body methods of electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Janus Juul Eriksen

We present $\texttt{Abacus}$, a fast and accurate cosmological $N$-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Nina A. Maksimova , Philip A. Pinto

We developed a new direct-tree hybrid N-body algorithm for fully self-consistent N-body simulations of star clusters in their parent galaxies. In such simulations, star clusters need high accuracy, while galaxies need a fast scheme because…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Fujii , M. Iwasawa , Y. Funato , J. Makino

This paper represents the first investigation of the suitability and performance of Graphcore Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for deep learning applications in cosmology. It presents the benchmark between a Nvidia V100 GPU and a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Bastien Arcelin

Numerical end-to-end simulation in Adaptive Optics (AO) is a key tool in the development of complex systems, from the initial design to the commissioning phase. Based on our previous experience with PASSATA, we decided to develop a new AO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Fabio Rossi , Alfio Puglisi , Guido Agapito

Approximate N-body methods, such as FastPM and COLA, have been successful in modelling halo and galaxy clustering statistics, but their low resolution on small scales is a limitation for applications that require high precision. Full N-body…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yiheng Wu , Hong Guo , Volker Springel

It has been widely accepted that Graphics Processing Units (GPU) is one of promising schemes for encryption acceleration, in particular, the support of complex mathematical calculations such as integer and logical operations makes the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Canhui Wang , Xiaowen Chu

The future of computation is the Graphical Processing Unit, i.e. the GPU. The promise that the graphics cards have shown in the field of image processing and accelerated rendering of 3D scenes, and the computational capability that these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-21 Jayshree Ghorpade , Jitendra Parande , Madhura Kulkarni , Amit Bawaskar

The development of numerical N -body simulations have allowed to study formation process and evolution of galaxies at different scales. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of N-body systems applied to the cosmological evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jazhiel Chacon , J. Alberto Vazquez , Ruslan Gabbasov

We have two basic methods of modeling matter. We can treat matter as a continuum and solve differential equations or we can treat it discretely and solve massive N-body problems. The differential equations produced by meaningful problems…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-01-29 Billy J. Fournier , Bryant M. Wyatt

High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms allow scientists to model computationally intensive algorithms. HPC clusters increasingly use General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) as accelerators; FPGAs provide an attractive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Syed Waqar Nabi , Saji N. Hameed , Wim Vanderbauwhede

To be able to run tasks asynchronously on NVIDIA GPUs a programmer must explicitly implement asynchronous execution in their code using the syntax of CUDA streams. Streams allow a programmer to launch independent concurrent execution tasks,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-07 Jan Novotný , Karel Adámek , Wes Armour

iPIC3D is a widely used massively parallel Particle-in-Cell code for the simulation of space plasmas. However, its current implementation does not support execution on multiple GPUs. In this paper, we describe the porting of iPIC3D particle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Chaitanya Prasad Sishtla , Steven W. D. Chien , Vyacheslav Olshevsky , Erwin Laure , Stefano Markidis

This paper introduces and evaluates a freely available cellular nonlinear network simulator optimized for the effective use of GPUs, to achieve fast modelling and simulations. Its relevance is demonstrated for several applications in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Radu Dogaru , Ioana Dogaru

In recent years the more and more powerful GPU's available on the PC market have attracted attention as a cost effective solution for parallel (SIMD) computing. CUDA is a solid evidence of the attention that the major companies are devoting…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-01-21 Viola Anselmi , Giovanni Conti , Francesco Di Renzo

Many-body perturbation theory is a powerful method to simulate electronic excitations in molecules and materials starting from the output of density functional theory calculations. By implementing the theory efficiently so as to run at…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-11 Victor Wen-zhe Yu , Marco Govoni

This paper introduces open-source computational fluid dynamics software named open computational fluid dynamic code for scientific computation with graphics processing unit (GPU) system (OpenCFD-SCU), developed by the authors for direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 Guanlin Dang , Shiwei Liu , Tongbiao Guo , Junyi Duan , Xinliang Li

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are important tools in life and material sciences since they allow studying chemical and biological processes in detail. However, the inherent scalability problem of particle-particle…

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