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The integration of the equations of motion of N interacting particles, represents a classical problem in many branches of physics and chemistry. The direct N-body problem is at the heart of simulations studying Coulomb Crystals. We present…

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We describe ZEUS-MP: a Multi-Physics, Massively-Parallel, Message-Passing code for astrophysical fluid dynamics simulations in 3 dimensions. ZEUS-MP is a follow-on to the sequential ZEUS-2D and ZEUS-3D codes developed and disseminated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Norman

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

Direct $N$-body simulations of star clusters are accurate but expensive, largely due to the numerous $\mathcal{O} (N^2)$ pairwise force calculations. To solve the post-million-body problem, it will be necessary to use approximate force…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-24 Diptajyoti Mukherjee , Qirong Zhu , Hy Trac , Carl L. Rodriguez

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

Upcoming cosmological surveys have the potential to reach groundbreaking discoveries on multiple fronts, including the neutrino mass, dark energy, and inflation. Most of the key science goals require the joint analysis of datasets from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-12 Adrian E. Bayer , Yici Zhong , Zack Li , Joseph DeRose , Yu Feng , Jia Liu

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a powerful computational tool to study the behavior of macromolecular systems. But many simulations of this field are limited in spatial or temporal scale by the available computational resource. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-01-22 Ji Xu , Ying Ren , Wei Ge , Xiang Yu , Xiaozhen Yang , Jinghai Li

The particle mass used in cosmology N-body simulations is close to $10^{8}M_{\odot}$, which is about $10^{65}$ times larger than the GeV scale expected in particle physics. However, self-gravity interacting particle systems made up of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-20 Weike Xiao , Xufen Wu

Scientific computing in the exascale era demands increased computational power to solve complex problems across various domains. With the rise of heterogeneous computing architectures the need for vendor-agnostic, performance portability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Johansell Villalobos , Josef Ruzicka , Silvio Rizzi

Numerical studies of shock waves in large scale systems via kinetic simulations with millions of particles are too computationally demanding to be processed in serial. In this work we focus on optimizing the parallel performance of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Jim Howell , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Alec Staber , Irina Sagert , Terrance Strother

We advocate for a new paradigm of cosmological likelihood-based inference, leveraging recent developments in machine learning and its underlying technology, to accelerate Bayesian inference in high-dimensional settings. Specifically, we…

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We describe the astrophysical and numerical basis of N-body simulations, both of collisional stellar systems (dense star clusters and galactic centres) and collisionless stellar dynamics (galaxies and large-scale structure). We explain and…

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In this work, an updated version of the multi-scale, multi-physics algorithm, Nemesis which makes use of the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment (AMUSE). The algorithm is formally introduced and validated. A suite of simulations…

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We present numerical simulations of galaxy formation, one of the most challenging problems in computational astrophysics. The key point in such simulations is the efficient solution of the N--body problem. If the gas of a galaxy is treated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

In this work we present the porting to Graphics Processing Units (GPUs, using OpenMP target directives) and optimization of a key module within the cosmological {\pinocchio} code, a Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT)-based framework…

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As an entry for the 2012 Gordon-Bell performance prize, we report performance results of astrophysical N-body simulations of one trillion particles performed on the full system of K computer. This is the first gravitational trillion-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-14 Tomoaki Ishiyama , Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino

Constraining neutrino mass remains an elusive challenge in modern physics. Precision measurements are expected from several upcoming cosmological probes of large-scale structure. Achieving this goal relies on an equal level of precision…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-31 J. D. Emberson , Hao-Ran Yu , Derek Inman , Tong-Jie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Shuo Yuan , Huan-Yu Teng , Hong-Ming Zhu , Xuelei Chen , Zhi-Zhong Xing

A fast $N$-body code has been developed for simulating a stellar disk embedded in a live dark matter halo. In generating its Poisson solver, a self-consistent field (SCF) code which inherently possesses perfect scalability is incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Shunsuke Hozumi , Keigo Nitadori , Masaki Iwasawa

We present SymPhas 2.0, a major update of the compile-time symbolic algebra simulation framework SymPhas for phase-field and reaction-diffusion models. This release introduces significant expansions and enhancements that enable the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Steven A. Silber , Mikko Karttunen

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…

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