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Commercial graphics processors (GPUs) have high compute capacity at very low cost, which makes them attractive for general purpose scientific computing. In this paper we show how graphics processors can be used for N-body simulations to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-06-22 Erich Elsen , V. Vishal , Mike Houston , Vijay Pande , Pat Hanrahan , Eric Darve

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…

We describe the GPU implementation of shifted or multimass iterative solvers for sparse linear systems of the sort encountered in lattice gauge theory. We provide a generic tool that can be used by those without GPU programming experience…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-02-16 Richard Galvez , Greg van Anders

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

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

We present an implementation of the hierarchical tree algorithm on the individual timestep algorithm (the Hermite scheme) for collisional $N$-body simulations, running on GRAPE-9 system, a special-purpose hardware accelerator for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Atsushi Kawai

Fluid simulations are often performed using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE), leading to sparse linear systems which are difficult to solve efficiently in parallel. Recently, kinetic methods based on the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Yixin Chen , Wei Li , Rui Fan , Xiaopei Liu

The approximate computation of all gravitational forces between $N$ interacting particles via the fast multipole method (FMM) can be made as accurate as direct summation, but requires less than $\mathcal{O}(N)$ operations. FMM groups…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-12 Walter Dehnen

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

The large dynamic range in some astrophysical N-body problems led to the use of adaptive multi-time-steps; however, the search for optimal strategies is still challenging. We numerically quantify the performance of the hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 G. Aguilar-Argüello , O. Valenzuela , J. C. Clemente , H. Velázquez , J. A. Trelles

We present MG-GLAM, a code developed for the very fast production of full $N$-body cosmological simulations in modified gravity (MG) models. We describe the implementation, numerical tests and first results of a large suite of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 Cheng-Zong Ruan , César Hernández-Aguayo , Baojiu Li , Christian Arnold , Carlton M. Baugh , Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada

We present Sapporo, a library for performing high-precision gravitational N-body simulations on NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Our library mimics the GRAPE-6 library, and N-body codes currently running on GRAPE-6 can switch to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Evghenii Gaburov , Stefan Harfst , Simon Portegies Zwart

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

In this work, we present an extension of Gaussian process (GP) models with sophisticated parallelization and GPU acceleration. The parallelization scheme arises naturally from the modular computational structure w.r.t. datapoints in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Zhenwen Dai , Andreas Damianou , James Hensman , Neil Lawrence

This is to announce a recent release of version 1.0.1a9 of parallel load balanced adaptive P3M cosmological N-body code named GRACOS. The code has been under development over years and is available for the download at http://www.gracos.org.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-30 Alexander Shirokov

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

This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Víctor Ramos-Osuna , Alberto Díaz-Álvarez , Raúl Lara-Cabrera

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

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

We describe three approaches for computing a gravity signal from a density anomaly. The first approach consists of the classical "summation" technique, whilst the remaining two methods solve the Poisson problem for the gravitational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-05-30 Dave A. May , Matthew G. Knepley