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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is an essential agent for Large Language Model (LLM) aided Description Language (HDL) tasks, addressing the challenges of limited training data and prohibitively long prompts. However, its performance in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Pingqing Zheng , Jiayin Qin , Fuqi Zhang , Niraj Chitla , Zishen Wan , Shang Wu , Yu Cao , Caiwen Ding , Yang , Zhao

We measure the 3PCF of 300 halo catalogs from the Minerva simulations covering a total volume of $~1000 h^{-3} \mathrm{Gpc}^3$. Each 3PCF measurement includes all possible triangular configurations with sides between 20 and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 A. Veropalumbo , A. Binetti , E. Branchini , M. Moresco , P. Monaco , A. Oddo , A. G. Sánchez , E. Sefusatti

The rate of merging of dark-matter halos is an absolutely essential ingredient for studies of both structure and galaxy formation. Remarkably, however, our quantitative understanding of the halo merger rate is still quite limited, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew J. Benson , Marc Kamionkowski , Steven H. Hassani

Galaxies are believed to be in one-to-one correspondence with simulated dark matter subhalos. We use high-resolution N-body simulations of cosmological volumes to calculate the statistical properties of subhalo (galaxy) major mergers at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrew R. Wetzel , J. D. Cohn , Martin White

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems face significant challenges in multi-hop question answering (MHQA), where complex queries require synthesizing information across multiple document chunks. Existing approaches typically rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zhonghao Li , Kunpeng Zhang , Jinghuai Ou , Shuliang Liu , Xuming Hu

Hierarchical structure formation theory is based on the notion that mergers drive galaxy evolution, so a considerable framework of semi-analytic models and N-body simulations has been constructed to calculate how mergers transform a growing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Manodeep Sinha , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

We explore the interrelationships between the galaxy group halo mass and various observable group properties. We propose a simple scenario that describes the evolution of the central galaxies and their host dark matter halos. Star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 Zhong-yi Man , Ying-jie Peng , Jing-jing Shi , Xu Kong , Cheng-peng Zhang , Jing Dou , Ke-xin Guo

Meeting both scalability and performance portability requirements is a challenge for any HPC application, especially for adaptively refined ones. In Octo-Tiger, an astrophysics application for the simulation of stellar mergers, we approach…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Gregor Daiß , Patrick Diehl , Dominic Marcello , Alireza Kheirkhahan , Hartmut Kaiser , Dirk Pflüger

[abridged] We present a detailed comparison of fundamental dark matter halo properties retrieved by a substantial number of different halo finders. These codes span a wide range of techniques including friends-of-friends (FOF),…

SPHINCS+ is a stateless hash-based signature scheme that provides strong post quantum security, but its signature generation is slow due to intensive hash computations. GPUs offer massive parallelism that can potentially accelerate SPHINCS+…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yaoyun Zhou , Qian Wang

Recent work has proven the existence of extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample taken from the contemporary UK population \cite{nature_01}. This result brings our attention again to a math problem related to inbreeding family trees…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-08 C. Jarne , F A. Gómez Albarracín , M. Caruso

We present a detailed description and validation of our massively-parallel update to the mass-Peak Patch method, a fully predictive initial-space algorithm to quickly generate dark matter halo catalogues in very large cosmological volumes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 George Stein , Marcelo A. Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

Balanced search trees are widely used in computer science to efficiently maintain dynamic ordered data. To support efficient set operations (e.g., union, intersection, difference) using trees, the join-based framework is widely studied.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Michael Goodrich , Yan Gu , Ryuto Kitagawa , Yihan Sun

We model the acquisition of spin by dark-matter halos in semi-analytic merger trees. We explore two different algorithms; one in which halo spin is acquired from the orbital angular momentum of merging satellites, and another in which halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ariyeh H. Maller , Avishai Dekel , Rachel S. Somerville

The effects of merging histories of proto-objects on the angular momentum distributions of the present-time dark matter haloes are analysed. An analytical approach to the analysis of the angular momentum distributions assumes that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Masahiro Nagashima , Naoteru Gouda

We present a new approach to study galaxy evolution in a cosmological context. We combine cosmological merger trees and semi-analytic models of galaxy formation to provide the initial conditions for multi-merger hydrodynamic simulations. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Benjamin P. Moster , Andrea V. Macciò , Rachel S. Somerville

We present a new self-consistent semi-analytic model of the first stars and galaxies to explore the high-redshift ($z{>}15$) Population III (PopIII) and metal-enriched star formation histories. Our model includes the detailed merger history…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Colton R. Feathers , Mihir Kulkarni , Eli Visbal , Ryan Hazlett

This paper investigates the execution of tree-shaped task graphs using multiple processors. Each edge of such a tree represents a large IO file. A task can only be executed if all input and output files fit into memory, and a file can only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Loris Marchal , Oliver Sinnen , Frédéric Vivien

We describe a new Python-based stand-alone halo finding algorithm, Haskap Pie, that combines several methods of halo finding and tracking into a single calculation. Our halo-finder flexibly solves halos for simulations produced by eight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Kirk S. S. Barrow , Thinh Huu Nguyen , Edward C. Skrabacz

The use of Euler-Lagrange methods on unstructured grids extends their application area to more versatile setups. However, the lack of a regular topology limits the scalability of distributed parallel methods, especially for routines that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Patrick Kopper , Stephen Copplestone , Marcel Pfeiffer , Christian Koch , Stefanos Fasoulas , Andrea Beck
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