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Turning the current experimental plasma accelerator state-of-the-art from a promising technology into mainstream scientific tools depends critically on high-performance, high-fidelity modeling of complex processes that develop over a wide…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 J. -L. Vay , A. Almgren , J. Bell , L. Ge , D. P. Grote , M. Hogan , O. Kononenko , R. Lehe , A. Myers , C. Ng , J. Park , R. Ryne , O. Shapoval , M. Thevenet , W. Zhang

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

Astrophysical direct $N$-body methods have been one of the first production algorithms to be implemented using NVIDIA's CUDA architecture. Now, almost seven years later, the GPU is the most used accelerator device in astronomy for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-15 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

The main performance bottleneck of gravitational N-body codes is the force calculation between two particles. We have succeeded in speeding up this pair-wise force calculation by factors between two and ten, depending on the code and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , Piet Hut

The upcoming exascale computing systems Frontier and Aurora will draw much of their computing power from GPU accelerators. The hardware for these systems will be provided by AMD and Intel, respectively, each supporting their own GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Felix Wittwer , Nicholas K. Sauter , Derek Mendez , Billy K. Poon , Aaron S. Brewster , James M. Holton , Michael E. Wall , William E. Hart , Deborah J. Bard , Johannes P. Blaschke

Developing complex, reliable advanced accelerators requires a coordinated, extensible, and comprehensive approach in modeling, from source to the end of beam lifetime. We present highlights in Exascale Computing to scale accelerator…

MareNostrum5 is a pre-exascale supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. With a peak performance of 314 petaflops, MareNostrum5 features a hybrid architecture comprising Intel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Fabio Banchelli , Marta Garcia-Gasulla , Filippo Mantovani , Joan Vinyals , Josep Pocurull , David Vicente , Beatriz Eguzkitza , Flavio C. C. Galeazzo , Mario C. Acosta , Sergi Girona

Although originally developed primarily for artificial intelligence workloads, RISC-V-based accelerators are also emerging as attractive platforms for high-performance scientific computing. In this work, we present our approach to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jenny Lynn Almerol , Elisabetta Boella , Mario Spera , Daniele Gregori

This paper presents a methodology for simultaneous heterogeneous computing, named ENEAC, where a quad core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU works in tandem with a preprogrammed on-board FPGA accelerator. A heterogeneous scheduler distributes the tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Kris Nikov , Mohammad Hosseinabady , Rafael Asenjo , Andrés Rodríguezz , Angeles Navarro , Jose Nunez-Yanez

The subjects and key questions faced by computational astrophysics using N-body simulations are discussed in the fields of globular star cluster dynamics, galactic nuclei and cosmological structure formation. After a comparison of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rainer Spurzem

The scale of scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Throughput Computing (HTC) has increased significantly in recent years, and is becoming sensitive to total energy use and cost. Energy-efficiency has thus become an important…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-14 David Abdurachmanov , Peter Elmer , Giulio Eulisse , Robert Knight , Tapio Niemi , Jukka K. Nurminen , Filip Nyback , Goncalo Pestana , Zhonghong Ou , Kashif Khan

We present a new C++ code for collisional N-body simulations of star clusters. The code uses the Hermite fourth-order scheme with block time steps, for advancing the particles in time, while the forces and neighboring particles are computed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-08 Simos Konstantinidis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

This paper assesses and reports the experience of ten teams working to port,validate, and benchmark several High Performance Computing applications on a novel GPU-accelerated Arm testbed system. The testbed consists of eight NVIDIA Arm HPC…

Power efficiency is becoming an ever more important metric for both high performance and high throughput computing. Over the course of next decade it is expected that flops/watt will be a major driver for the evolution of computer…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 David Abdurachmanov , Peter Elmer , Giulio Eulisse , Shahzad Muzaffar

We present the first results on the construction of an exascale hyperbolic PDE engine (ExaHyPE), a code for the next generation of supercomputers with the objective to evolve dynamical spacetimes of black holes, neutron stars and binaries.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 Sven Köppel

Today's world of scientific software for High Energy Physics (HEP) is powered by x86 code, while the future will be much more reliant on accelerators like GPUs and FPGAs. The portable parallelization strategies (PPS) project of the High…

We introduce here our new approach to modeling particle cloud evolution off surface of small bodies (asteroids and comets), following the evolution of ejected particles requires dealing with various time and spatial scales, in an efficient,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jennifer N. Larson , Gal Sarid

We present a high-fidelity realization of the cosmological $N$-body simulation from the Schneider et al. (2016) code comparison project. The simulation was performed with our Abacus $N$-body code, which offers high force accuracy, high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Philip A. Pinto

We present exa-AMD, an open-source, high-performance framework designed for accelerated materials discovery on modern supercomputers. exa-AMD overcomes key computational bottlenecks in large-scale structure prediction through task-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-11 Weiyi Xia , Maxim Moraru , Ying Wai Li , Cai-Zhuang Wang