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Upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys aim to achieve an unprecedented level of precision in measuring galaxy clustering. However, accurately modeling these statistics may require theoretical templates that go beyond second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 M. Icaza-Lizaola , Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Yi Zheng

We describe the implementation and performance of the ${\rm P^3T}$ (Particle-Particle Particle-Tree) scheme for simulating dense stellar systems. In ${\rm P^3T}$, the force experienced by a particle is split into short-range and long-range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Masaki Iwasawa , Simon Portegies Zwart , Junichiro Makino

The modern study of the dynamics of stellar systems requires the use of high-performance computers. Indeed, an accurate modelization of the structure and evolution of self-gravitating systems like planetary systems, open clusters, globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Di Matteo , P. Miocchi

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-07 Naohito Nakasato , Go Ogiya , Yohei Miki , Masao Mori , Ken'ichi Nomoto

We developed a Keplerian-based Hamiltonian splitting for solving the gravitational $N$-body problem. This splitting allows us to approximate the solution of a general $N$-body problem by a composition of multiple, independently evolved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Gonçalves Ferrari , T. Boekholt , S. F. Portegies Zwart

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

This paper introduces and evaluates a freely available cellular nonlinear network simulator optimized for the effective use of GPUs, to achieve fast modelling and simulations. Its relevance is demonstrated for several applications in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Radu Dogaru , Ioana Dogaru

This posting announces public availability of the GALAXY software package developed by the author over the past 40 years. It is a highly efficient code for the evolution of (almost) isolated, collisionless stellar systems, both disk-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-26 J. A. Sellwood

In a Keplerian system, a large number of bodies orbit a central mass. Accretion disks, protoplanetary disks, asteroid belts, and planetary rings are examples. Simulations of these systems require algorithms that are computationally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 P. M. Visser

$N$-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

Simulating the evolution of the gravitational N-body problem becomes extremely computationally expensive as N increases since the problem complexity scales quadratically with the number of bodies. We study the use of Artificial Neural…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Veronica Saz Ulibarrena , Philipp Horn , Simon Portegies Zwart , Elena Sellentin , Barry Koren , Maxwell X. Cai

We have newly developed a Parallelized Particle-Particle Particle-tree code for Planet formation, PENTACLE, which is a parallelized hybrid $N$-body integrator executed on a CPU-based (super)computer. PENTACLE uses a 4th-order Hermite…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Masaki Iwasawa , Shoichi Oshino , Michiko S. Fujii , Yasunori Hori

We have developed a gravity solver based on combining the well developed Particle-Mesh (PM) method and TREE methods. It is designed for and has been implemented on parallel computer architectures. The new code can deal with tens of millions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Guohong Xu

OCTO-TIGER is an astrophysics code to simulate the evolution of self-gravitating and rotat-ing systems of arbitrary geometry based on the fast multipole method, using adaptive mesh refinement. OCTO-TIGER is currently optimised to simulate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-12 Dominic C. Marcello , Sagiv Shiber , Orsola De Marco , Juhan Frank , Geoffrey C. Clayton , Patrick M. Motl , Patrick Diehl , Hartmut Kaiser

A major goal of computational astrophysics is to simulate the Milky Way Galaxy with sufficient resolution down to individual stars. However, the scaling fails due to some small-scale, short-timescale phenomena, such as supernova explosions.…

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 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

This paper presents CUBEP3M, a publicly-available high performance cosmological N-body code and describes many utilities and extensions that have been added to the standard package. These include a memory-light runtime SO halo finder, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ue-Li Pen , Ilian T. Iliev , Hugh Merz , J. D. Emberson , Vincent Desjacques

With large-scale Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) surveys of thousands of galaxies currently under-way or planned, the astronomical community is in need of methods, techniques and tools that will allow the analysis of huge amounts of data.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Georgios Bekiaris , Karl Glazebrook , Christopher J. Fluke , Roberto Abraham

Gas-poor galaxies can be modelled as composite collisionless stellar systems, with a dark matter halo and one or more stellar components, representing different stellar populations. The dynamical evolution of such composite systems is often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Carlo Nipoti , Giacomo Cherchi , Giuliano Iorio , Francesco Calura