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We train convolutional neural networks to correct the output of fast and approximate N-body simulations at the field level. Our model, Neural Enhanced COLA --NECOLA--, takes as input a snapshot generated by the computationally efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 Neerav Kaushal , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Elena Giusarma , Yin Li , Conner Hawry , Mauricio Reyes

We present a new massively parallel code for N-body and cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of modified gravity models. The code employs a multigrid-accelerated Newton-Gauss-Seidel relaxation solver on an adaptive mesh to efficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ewald Puchwein , Marco Baldi , Volker Springel

The Barnes-Hut and Fast Multipole Methods are widely utilised methods applied in order to reduce the computational cost of evaluating long range forces in $N$-body simulations. Despite this, applying existing libraries to simple problems…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ryan Alexander Pepper , Hans Fangohr

We present the results of gravitational direct $N$-body simulations using the commercial graphics processing units (GPU) NVIDIA Quadro FX1400 and GeForce 8800GTX, and compare the results with GRAPE-6Af special purpose hardware. The force…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Simon Portegies Zwart , Robert Belleman , Peter Geldof

We describe a novel N-body code designed for simulations of the central regions of galaxies containing massive black holes. The code incorporates Mikkola's 'algorithmic' chain regularization scheme including post-Newtonian terms up to PN2.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Harfst , A. Gualandris , D. Merritt , S. Mikkola

The aim of this work is to quantitatively evaluate the impact of computation on the energy consumption on ARM MPSoC platforms, exploiting CPUs, embedded GPUs and FPGAs. One of them possibly represents the future of High Performance…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-01 D. Goz , G. Ieronymakis , V. Papaefstathiou , N. Dimou , S. Bertocco , A. Ragagnin , L. Tornatore , G. Taffoni , I. Coretti

We present a systematic downfolding many-body approach for extended systems. Many-body calculations operate on a simpler Hamiltonian which retains material-specific properties. The Hamiltonian is systematically improvable and allows one to…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-02 Fengjie Ma , Wirawan Purwanto , Shiwei Zhang , Henry Krakauer

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

Numerical methods have become a powerful tool for research in astrophysics, but their utility depends critically on the availability of suitable simulation codes. This calls for continuous efforts in code development, which is necessitated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-19 Volker Springel , Rüdiger Pakmor , Oliver Zier , Martin Reinecke

We describe a new implementation of a parallel N-body tree code. The code is load-balanced using the method of orthogonal recursive bisection to subdivide the N-body system into independent rectangular volumes each of which is mapped to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 John Dubinski

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 present the results of a novel type of numerical simulation that realizes a rotating Universe with a shear-free, rigid body rotation inspired by a G\"{o}del-like metric. We run cosmological simulations of unperturbed glasses with various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 Balázs Pál , Tze Goh , Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi

Future galaxy surveys require one percent precision in the theoretical knowledge of the power spectrum over a large range including very nonlinear scales. While this level of accuracy is easily obtained in the linear regime with…

In this paper we carry out anisotropic "separate universe" simulations by including a large-scale tidal field in the N-body code \textsc{gadget}4 using an anisotropic expansion factor $A_{ij}$. We use the code in a pure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Andreas S. Schmidt , Simon D. M. White , Fabian Schmidt , Jens Stücker

A systolic algorithm rhythmically computes and passes data through a network of processors. We investigate the performance of systolic algorithms for implementing the gravitational N-body problem on distributed-memory computers. Systolic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. N. Dorband , Marc Hemsendorf , David Merritt

We present $N$-body cosmlogical simulations in the framework of the Newtonian limit of scalar-tensor theories of gravity. The scalar field is described by a modified Helmholtz equation with a source that is coupled to the standard Poisson…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. A. Rodriguez-Meza

We have implemented a parallel version of the Barnes-Hut 3-D N-body tree algorithm under PVM 3.2.5, adopting an SPMD paradigm. We parallelize the problem by decomposing the physical domain by means of the {\bf Orthogonal Recursive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Antonuccio-Delogu , U. Becciani

Simulations of asteroid binaries commonly use mutual gravitational potentials approximated by series expansions, leading to truncation errors, and also preventing correct computations of the forces and torques when the bodies are close. We…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Alex Ho , Margrethe Wold , Mohammad Poursina , John T. Conway

We make available to the public 4 dark matter simulations that cover 4 CDM cosmological models and were run with the AP^3M code (Couchamn 1991). These simulations are described in Colin et al. (ApJ, 523, 32, 1999). There are about 20 epochs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Colin , A. Klypin

We describe the astrophysical and numerical basis of N-body simulations, both of collisional stellar systems (dense star clusters and galactic centres) and collisionless stellar dynamics (galaxies and large-scale structure). We explain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-26 Walter Dehnen , Justin Read