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We present a simple and efficient method to set up spherical structure models for N-body simulations with a multimass technique. This technique reduces by a substantial factor the computer run time needed in order to resolve a given scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-12 Marcel Zemp , Ben Moore , Joachim Stadel , C. Marcella Carollo , Piero Madau

We review the recent optimizations of gravitational $N$-body kernels for running them on graphics processing units (GPUs), on single hosts and massive parallel platforms. For each of the two main $N$-body techniques, direct summation and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-22 Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

We present a new parallel PM N-body code named PMFAST that is freely available to the public. PMFAST is based on a two-level mesh gravity solver where the gravitational forces are separated into long and short range components. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugh Merz , Ue-Li Pen , Hy Trac

Particle-mesh simulations trade small-scale accuracy for speed compared to traditional, computationally expensive N-body codes in cosmological simulations. In this work, we show how a data-driven model could be used to learn an effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-01 Nicolas Payot , Pablo Lemos , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Chirag Modi , Yashar Hezaveh

Understanding the physics of large cosmological surveys down to small (nonlinear) scales will significantly improve our knowledge of the Universe. Large N-body simulations have been built to obtain predictions in the non-linear regime.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Chang Chen , Yin Li , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Anthony Pullen

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) on a commercial NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX designed for gaming computers. The force evaluation of the $N$-body problem is implemented…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert G. Belleman , Jeroen Bedorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

We have implemented a parallel version of the Barnes-Hut 3-D N-body tree algorithm under PVM 3.2.5, adopting an SPMD paradigm. We parallelize the problem by decomposing the physical domain by means of the {\bf Orthogonal Recursive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Antonuccio-Delogu , U. Becciani

Recently a new formulation of quantum mechanics has been suggested which describes systems by means of ensembles of classical particles provided with a sign. This novel approach mainly consists of two steps: the computation of the Wigner…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Jean Michel Sellier

The N-body problem is a classic problem involving a system of N discrete bodies mutually interacting in a dynamical system. At any moment in time there are N*(N - 1)/2 such interactions occurring. This scaling as N^2 leads to computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alexander Brandt

Knowledge hypergraph embedding models are usually computationally expensive due to the inherent complex semantic information. However, existing works mainly focus on improving the effectiveness of knowledge hypergraph embedding, making the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhao Li , Xin Wang , Jun Zhao , Wenbin Guo , Jianxin Li

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

At early times dark matter has a thermal velocity dispersion of unknown amplitude which, for warm dark matter models, can influence the formation of nonlinear structure on observable scales. We propose a new scheme to simulate cosmologies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Jens Stücker , Oliver Hahn , Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White

This study addresses the challenge of simulating realistic particle systems by proposing a novel particle decomposition scheme that improves the parallel performance of surface resolved particle simulations. Realistic particle systems often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-21 J. E. Marquardt , N. Hafen , M. J. Krause

Owing to the computational complexity of electronic structure algorithms running on classical digital computers, the range of molecular systems amenable to simulation remains tightly circumscribed even after many decades of work. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexis Ralli , Michael I. Williams , Peter V. Coveney

We describe source code level parallelization for the {\tt kira} direct gravitational $N$-body integrator, the workhorse of the {\tt starlab} production environment for simulating dense stellar systems. The parallelization strategy, called…

Accurate direct $N$-body simulations help to obtain detailed information about the dynamical evolution of star clusters. They also enable comparisons with analytical models and Fokker-Planck or Monte-Carlo methods. NBODY6 is a well-known…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Long Wang , Rainer Spurzem , Sverre Aarseth , Keigo Nitadori , Peter Berczik , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Thorsten Naab

A massively parallel order-N electronic structure theory was constructed by an interdisciplinary research between physics, applied mathematics and computer science. (1) A high parallel efficiency with ten-million-atom nanomaterials was…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-01-29 Takeo Hoshi , Yohei Akiyama , Tatsunori Tanaka , Takahisa Ohno

In this paper, we describe the implementation and performance of GreeM, a massively parallel TreePM code for large-scale cosmological N-body simulations. GreeM uses a recursive multi-section algorithm for domain decomposition. The size of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tomoaki Ishiyama , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

We present an algorithm for quickly generating multiple realizations of N-body simulations to be used, for example, for cosmological parameter estimation from surveys of large-scale structure. Our algorithm uses a new method to resample the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael D. Schneider , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Istvan Szapudi