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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…

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We present a novel convex formulation that weakly couples the Material Point Method (MPM) with rigid body dynamics through frictional contact, optimized for efficient GPU parallelization. Our approach features an asynchronous time-splitting…

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I present a simple scheme for the treatment of gravitational interactions on galactic scales. In analogy to known mechanisms of quantum field theory, I assume ad hoc that gravitation is mediated by virtual exchange particles - gravitons -…

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We present performance measurements of direct gravitational N -body simulation on the grid, with and without specialized (GRAPE-6) hardware. Our inter-continental virtual organization consists of three sites, one in Tokyo, one in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Derek Groen , Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Jun Makino

We have performed fully self-consistent $N$-body simulations of star clusters near the Galactic center (GC). Such simulations have not been performed because it is difficult to perform fast and accurate simulations of such systems using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Fujii , M. Iwasawa , Y. Funato , J. Makino

Parallel implementation features of self-gravitating gas dynamics modeling on multiple GPUs are considered applying the GPU-Direct technology. The parallel algorithm for solving of the self-gravitating gas dynamics problem based on hybrid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Sergey Khrapov , Alexander Khoperskov

In this talk we discuss some of the main theoretical problems in the understanding of the statistical properties of gravity. By means of N-body simulations we approach the problem of understanding the r\^ole of gravity in the clustering of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bottaccio , R. Capuzzo Dolcetta , P. Miocchi , A. Amici , M. Montuori , L. Pietronero

In this paper a new scalable hydrodynamic code GPUPEGAS (GPU-accelerated PErformance Gas Astrophysic Simulation) for simulation of interacting galaxies is proposed. The code is based on combination of Godunov method as well as on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-06 Kulikov Igor

In this paper, we accelerate a gravitational physics numerical modelling application using hardware accelerators -- Cell processor and Tesla CUDA GPU. We describe these new technologies and our approach in detail, and then present our final…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-23 Gaurav Khanna , Justin McKennon

Discrete particle simulations have become the standard in science and industrial applications exploring the properties of particulate systems. Most of such simulations rely on the concept of interacting spherical particles to describe the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Igor Ostanin , Vasileios Angelidakis , Timo Plath , Sahar Pourandi , Anthony Thornton , Thomas Weinhart

The implementation of a full electronic structure calculation code on a hybrid parallel architecture with Graphic Processing Units (GPU) is presented. The code which is on the basis of our implementation is a GNU-GPL code based on…

A heterogeneous CPU-GPU node is getting popular in HPC clusters. We need to rethink algorithms and optimization techniques for such system depending on the relative performance of CPU vs. GPU. In this paper, we report a performance…

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We develop an algorithm to solve tridiagonal systems of linear equations, which appear in implicit finite-difference schemes of partial differential equations (PDEs), being the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation (TDSE) an ideal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Yaroslav Lutsyshyn , Francisco Navarrete , Dieter Bauer

Modelling the formation of super-km-sized planetesimals by gravitational collapse of regions overdense in small particles requires numerical algorithms capable of handling simultaneously hydrodynamics, particle dynamics and particle…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Anders Johansen , Andrew Youdin , Yoram Lithwick

Recently alternative approaches in cosmology seeks to explain the nature of dark matter as a direct result of the non-linear spacetime curvature due to different types of deformation potentials. In this context, a key test for this…

This work presents a GPU thread mapping approach that allows doing fast parallel stencil-like computations on discrete fractals using their compact representation. The intuition behind is to employ two GPU tensor-core accelerated thread…

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We introduce GRiD: a GPU-accelerated library for computing rigid body dynamics with analytical gradients. GRiD was designed to accelerate the nonlinear trajectory optimization subproblem used in state-of-the-art robotic planning, control,…

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A new technique that utilizes surface integrals to find the force, torque and potential energy between two non-spherical, rigid bodies is presented. The method is relatively fast, and allows us to solve the full rigid two-body problem for…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Alex Ho , Margrethe Wold , John T. Conway , Mohammad Poursina

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