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It is well-known that some star clusters contain composite stellar populations (CSPs), in which the metallicities or (and) ages of stars are different. The formation and evolution of such clusters and their stellar populations remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Zhongmu Li , Rainer Spurzem

Debris discs are traditionally studied using two distinct types of numerical models: statistical particle-in-a-box codes to study their collisional and size distribution evolution, and dynamical N-body models to study their spatial…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Philippe Thebault

A new implementation of many-body calculations is of paramount importance in the field of computational physics. In this study, we leverage the capabilities of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for conducting quantum many-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-17 Songtai Lv , Yang Liang , Yuchen Meng , Xiaochen Yao , Jincheng Xu , Yang Liu , Qibin Zheng , Haiyuan Zou

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 describe the newly written code GADGET which is suitable both for cosmological simulations of structure formation and for the simulation of interacting galaxies. GADGET evolves self-gravitating collisionless fluids with the traditional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Naoki Yoshida , Simon D. M. White

The Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code at Princeton (GTC-P) is a highly scalable and portable particle-in-cell (PIC) code. It solves the 5D Vlasov-Poisson equation featuring efficient utilization of modern parallel computer architectures at the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Bei Wang , Stephane Ethier , William Tang , Khaled Ibrahim , Kamesh Madduri , Samuel Williams , Leonid Oliker

Recent increases in supercomputing power, driven by the multi-core revolution and accelerators such as the IBM Cell processor, graphics processing units (GPUs) and Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) technology have enabled kinetic…

Large-scale parallel numerical simulations are essential for a wide range of engineering problems that involve complex, coupled physical processes interacting across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales. The data structures involved…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Fande Kong , Roy H. Stogner , Derek R. Gaston , John W. Peterson , Cody J. Permann , Andrew E. Slaughter , Richard C. Martineau

We present an N-body computer code - aimed at studies of galactic dynamics - with a CPU-efficient algorithm for a continuous (i.e. time-dependent) stellar mass-loss. First, we summarize available data on stellar mass-loss and derive the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bruno Jungwiert , Francoise Combes , Jan Palous

Large language models have led to state-of-the-art accuracies across a range of tasks. However, training these models efficiently is challenging for two reasons: a) GPU memory capacity is limited, making it impossible to fit large models on…

While the advances in synchrotron light sources, together with the development of focusing optics and detectors, allow nanoscale ptychographic imaging of materials and biological specimens, the corresponding experiments can yield…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xiaodong Yu , Viktor Nikitin , Daniel J. Ching , Selin Aslan , Doga Gursoy , Tekin Bicer

The general consensus in the N-body community is that statistical results of an ensemble of collisional N-body simulations are accurate, even though individual simulations are not. A way to test this hypothesis is to make a direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-26 Tjarda Boekholt , Simon Portegies Zwart

We present a GPU-accelerated numerical integrator specifically optimized for stability calculations of small bodies in planetary systems. Specifically, the integrator is designed for cases when large numbers of test particles (tens or…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-09 Kevin Zhang , Brett J. Gladman

In recent years, large language models have achieved great success due to their unprecedented size. However, training these models poses a challenge for most researchers as it requires a substantial number of GPUs. To reduce GPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Haichen Huang , Jiarui Fang , Hongxin Liu , Shenggui Li , Yang You

Galactic nuclei and globular clusters act as laboratories in which nature experiments with normal stars, neutron stars and black holes, through collisions and through the formation of bound states, in the form of binaries. The main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piet Hut

We present the newly developed code, GAMER (GPU-accelerated Adaptive MEsh Refinement code), which has adopted a novel approach to improve the performance of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) astrophysical simulations by a large factor with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 Hsi-Yu Schive , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

BATSRUS, our state-of-the-art extended magnetohydrodynamic code, is the most used and one of the most resource-consuming models in the Space Weather Modeling Framework. It has always been our objective to improve its efficiency and speed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Yifu An , Yuxi Chen , Hongyang Zhou , Alexander Gaenko , Gábor Tóth

I describe here the performance of a parallel treecode with individual particle timesteps. The code is based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm and runs cosmological N-body simulations on parallel machines with a distributed memory architecture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Valdarnini

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a powerful and cost effective processor for general performance computing. GPUs are capable of an order of magnitude more floating-point operations per second as compared to modern central…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-24 Mark Franey , Pritam Ranjan , Hugh Chipman

Binary star systems are of particular interest to astronomers because they can be used as astrophysical laboratories to study the properties and processes of stars. Between 70% to 90% of the stars in our galaxy are part of a binary star…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 Shaukat Goderya , Edward Smith , Baylor Fain , Taylor Hutyra , Mason McCallum , Bryant Wyatt