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Current trends in the computer graphics community propose leveraging the massive parallel computational power of GPUs to accelerate physically based simulations. Collision detection and solving is a fundamental part of this process. It is…
In this letter we describe the pseudoparticle multipole method (P2M2), a new method to express multipole expansion by a distribution of pseudoparticles. We can use this distribution of particles to calculate high order terms in both the…
The kd-tree is a fundamental tool in computer science. Among other applications, the application of kd-tree search (by the tree method) to the fast evaluation of particle interactions and neighbor search is highly important, since the…
A fast $N$-body code has been developed for simulating a stellar disk embedded in a live dark matter halo. In generating its Poisson solver, a self-consistent field (SCF) code which inherently possesses perfect scalability is incorporated…
Cosmological large scale structure $N$-body simulations are computation-light, memory-heavy problems in supercomputing. The considerable amount of memory is usually dominated by an inefficient way of storing more than sufficient phase space…
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…
Accurate direct $N$-body simulations help to obtain detailed information about the dynamical evolution of star clusters. They also enable comparisons with analytical models and Fokker-Planck or Monte-Carlo methods. NBODY6 is a well-known…
In this study, an $N$-body simulation code was developed for self-gravitating systems with a limited first-order post-Newtonian approximation. The code was applied to a special case in which the system consists of one massive object and…
In this paper, we develop a highly efficient molecular dynamics code fully implemented on graphics processing units for thermal conductivity calculations using the Green-Kubo formula. We compare two different schemes for force evaluation, a…
We present a new scheme to compensate for the small-scales approximations resulting from Particle-Mesh (PM) schemes for cosmological N-body simulations. This kind of simulations are fast and low computational cost realizations of the large…
We present a Fortran 95 code for simulating the evolution of astrophysical systems using particles to represent the underlying fluid flow. The code is designed to be versatile, flexible and extensible, with modular options that can be…
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…
A combined N--body/SPH code is presented which benefits from the high speed of the special purpose hardware GRAPE (GRAvity PipE). Besides gravitational forces, GRAPE also returns the list of neighbours and can, therefore, be used to speed…
In this paper, we explore how numerical calculations can be accelerated by implementing several numerical methods of fractional-order systems using parallel computing techniques. We investigate the feasibility of parallel computing…
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…
The standard particle-in-cell algorithm suffers from grid heating. There exists a gridless alternative which bypasses the deposition step and calculates each Fourier mode of the charge density directly from the particle positions. We show…
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can speed up the numerical solution of various problems in astrophysics including the dynamical evolution of stellar systems; the performance gain can be more than a factor 100 compared to using a Central…
As in various fields like scientific research and industrial application, the computation time optimization is becoming a task that is of increasing importance because of its highly parallel architecture. The graphics processing unit is…
We present MG-GLAM, a code developed for the very fast production of full $N$-body cosmological simulations in modified gravity (MG) models. We describe the implementation, numerical tests and first results of a large suite of cosmological…
We present a parallel implementation of the particle-particle/particle-mesh (P3M) algorithm for distributed memory clusters. The GRACOS (GRAvitational COSmology) code uses a hybrid method for both computation and domain decomposition.…