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Cosmological N-body simulations are crucial for understanding how the Universe evolves. Studying large-scale distributions of matter in these simulations and comparing them to observations usually involves detecting dense clusters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 Aidan Reilly , Nikita Ivkin , Gerard Lemson , Vladimir Braverman , Alexander Szalay

Modern N-body cosmological simulations contain billions ($10^9$) of dark matter particles. These simulations require hundreds to thousands of gigabytes of memory, and employ hundreds to tens of thousands of processing cores on many compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Stephen Skory , Matthew J. Turk , Michael L. Norman , Alison L. Coil

The advent of large cosmological sky surveys - ushering in the era of precision cosmology - has been accompanied by ever larger cosmological simulations. The analysis of these simulations, which currently encompass tens of billions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jonathan Woodring , Katrin Heitmann , James Ahrens , Patricia Fasel , Chung-Hsing Hsu , Salman Habib , Adrian Pope

Halo is one of the most important basic elements in cosmology simulation, which merges from small clumps to ever larger objects. The processes of the birth and merging of the halos play a fundamental role in studying the evolution of large…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Guihua Shan , Maojin Xie , FengAn Li , Yang Gao , Xuebin Chi

We demonstrate that the output of a cosmological N-body simulation can, to remarkable accuracy, be scaled to represent the growth of large-scale structure in a cosmology with parameters similar to but different from those originally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White

Cosmological simulations are the key tool for investigating the different processes involved in the formation of the universe from small initial density perturbations to galaxies and clusters of galaxies observed today. The identification…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Steffen R. Knollmann , Alexander Knebe

To maximize the amount of information extracted from cosmological datasets, simulations that accurately represent these observations are necessary. However, traditional simulations that evolve particles under gravity by estimating…

Conservative mass limits are often imposed on the dark matter halo catalogues extracted from N-body simulations. By comparing simulations with different mass resolutions, at $z=0$ we find that even for halos resolved by 100 particles, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Joaquin Armijo , Carlton M. Baugh , Nelson D. Padilla , Peder Norberg , Christian Arnold

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

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…

N-body simulations are essential tools in physical cosmology to understand the large-scale structure (LSS) formation of the Universe. Large-scale simulations with high resolution are important for exploring the substructure of universe and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Shenggan Cheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Derek Inman , Qiucheng Liao , Qiaoya Wu , James Lin

Learning system dynamics directly from observations is a promising direction in machine learning due to its potential to significantly enhance our ability to understand physical systems. However, the dynamics of many real-world systems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Karolis Martinkus , Aurelien Lucchi , Nathanaël Perraudin

Molecular dynamics simulations can generate atomically detailed trajectories of complex systems, but analyzing these dynamics can be challenging when systems lack well-established quantitative descriptors (features). Graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zihan Pengmei , Spencer C. Guo , Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Aaron R. Dinner

Many well-known, real-world problems involve dynamic data which describe the relationship among the entities. Hypergraphs are powerful combinatorial structures that are frequently used to model such data. For many of today's data-centric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Fatih Taşyaran , Berkay Demireller , Kamer Kaya , Bora Uçar

Next generation galaxy surveys demand the development of massive ensembles of galaxy mocks to model the observables and their covariances, what is computationally prohibitive using $N$-body simulations. COLA is a novel method designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Albert Izard , Martin Crocce , Pablo Fosalba

Many classical algorithms are known for computing the convex hull of a set of $n$ point in $\mathbb{R}^2$ using $O(n)$ space. For large point sets, whose size exceeds the size of the working space, these algorithms cannot be directly used.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Martin Farach-Colton , Meng Li , Meng-Tsung Tsai

As computer simulations continue to grow in size and complexity, they present a particularly challenging class of big data problems. Many application areas are moving toward exascale computing systems, systems that perform $10^{18}$ FLOPS…

Accurate modelling of redshift-space distortions (RSD) in galaxy clustering is essential for extracting cosmological information from current and forthcoming large-scale structure surveys. While perturbation theory is reliable on large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Cheng-Zong Ruan , Baojiu Li , Carlton M. Baugh , Sownak Bose , Alexander Eggemeier , David F. Mota

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

Cosmological N-Body simulations have become an essential tool for studying formation of large scale structure. These simulations are computationally challenging even though the available computing power gets better every year. A number of…

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