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Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) provide impressive computing resources, which can be accessed conveniently through the CUDA programming interface. We describe how GPUs can be used to considerably speed up molecular dynamics (MD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Peter H. Colberg , Felix Höfling

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the commercial graphics processing units (GPU) NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 and GeForce 8800GTX, and compare the results with GRAPE-6Af special purpose hardware. The force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Portegies Zwart , Robert Belleman , Peter Geldof

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the commercial graphics processing units (GPU) NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 and GeForce 8800GTX, and compare the results with GRAPE-6Af special purpose hardware. The force…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Simon Portegies Zwart , Robert Belleman , Peter Geldof

Current trends in parallel processors call for the design of efficient massively parallel algorithms for scientific computing. Parallel algorithms for Monte Carlo simulations of thermodynamic ensembles of particles have received little…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Joshua A. Anderson , Eric Jankowski , Thomas L. Grubb , Michael Engel , Sharon C. Glotzer

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hao-Ran Yu , Bing-Hang Chen , Kun Xu , Ming-Jie Sheng , Jiaxin Han , Yipeng Jing , Huahua Cui

We compare the performance of two very different parallel gravitational $N$-body codes for astrophysical simulations on large GPU clusters, both pioneer in their own fields as well as in certain mutual scales - NBODY6++ and Bonsai. We carry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Siyi Huang , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik

Astrophysical research in recent decades has made significant progress thanks to the availability of various $N$-body simulation techniques. With the rapid development of high-performance computing technologies, modern simulations have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Maxwell Xu Cai , Yohai Meiron , M. B. N. Kouwenhoven , Paulina Assmann , Rainer Spurzem

We describe the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for speeding up the code NBODY6 which is widely used for direct $N$-body simulations. Over the years, the $N^2$ nature of the direct force calculation has proved a barrier for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Keigo Nitadori , Sverre J. Aarseth

GPUs have been widely used to accelerate computations exhibiting simple patterns of parallelism - such as flat or two-level parallelism - and a degree of parallelism that can be statically determined based on the size of the input dataset.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hancheng Wu , Da Li , Michela Becchi

Graphics processing units have been extensively used to accelerate classical molecular dynamics simulations. However, there is much less progress on the acceleration of force evaluations for many-body potentials compared to pairwise ones.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Wei Chen , Ville Vierimaa , Ari Harju

Current trends in the computer graphics community propose leveraging the massive parallel computational power of GPUs to accelerate physically based simulations. Collision detection and solving is a fundamental part of this process. It is…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hugo Bertiche , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

We describe an open source GPU implementation of a hybrid symplectic N-body integrator, GENGA (Gravitational ENcounters with Gpu Acceleration), designed to integrate planet and planetesimal dynamics in the late stage of planet formation and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-06 Simon L. Grimm , Joachim G. Stadel

This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explicit kinetic schemes, this work features a fast converging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Yonghao Zhang

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

The "gravitational million-body problem," to model the dynamical evolution of a self-gravitating, collisional N-body system with ~10^6 particles over many relaxation times, remains a major challenge in computational astrophysics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-07 Carl L. Rodriguez , Bharath Pattabiraman , Sourav Chatterjee , Alok Choudhary , Wei-keng Liao , Meagan Morscher , Frederic A. Rasio

Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Jizhou Liu , Fang Q. Hu , Xiaodong Li

This paper presents an accurate density computation approach for large dark matter simulations, based on a recently introduced phase-space tessellation technique and designed for massively parallel, heterogeneous cluster architectures. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Ralf Kaehler

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

This paper describes a fourth-order integration algorithm for the gravitational N-body problem based on discrete Lagrangian mechanics. When used with shared timesteps, the algorithm is momentum conserving and symplectic. We generalize the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Will M. Farr , Edmund Bertschinger

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki