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We describe a new parallel N-body code for cosmological simulations. The code is based on a work- and data sharing scheme, and is implemented within the Cray Research Corporation's CRAFT programming environment. Different data distribution…
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We describe a new method to accelerate neighbor searches on GRAPE, i.e. a special purpose hardware that efficiently calculates gravitational forces and potentials in $N$-body simulations. In addition to the gravitational calculations, GRAPE…
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…
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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…
We describe a modified version of the NBODY6 code for simulating star clusters which greatly improves computational efficiency while sacrificing little in the way of accuracy. The distant force calculator is replaced by a GPU-enabled…
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We introduce a new code for cosmological simulations, PHoToNs, which has features on performing massive cosmological simulations on heterogeneous high performance Computer (HPC) and threads oriented programming. PHoToNs adopts a hybrid…
We describe the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for speeding up the code NBODY6 which is widely used for direct $N$-body simulations. Over the years, the $N^2$ nature of the direct force calculation has proved a barrier for…
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We briefly describe the use of GRAPE pulses to implement quantum logic gates in NMR quantum computers, and discuss a range of simple extensions to the core technique. We then consider a range of difficulties which can arise in practical…
We propose a hybrid tree algorithm for reducing calculation and communication cost of collision-less N-body simulations. The concept of our algorithm is that we split interaction force into two parts: hard-force from neighbor particles and…
Particle tracking simulations with space charge effects are very important for high-intensity proton rings. Since they include not only Hamilton mechanics of a single particle but constructing charge densities and solving Poisson equations…
We investigate a hybrid numerical algorithm aimed at the large-scale cosmological N-body simulation for the on-going and the future high precious sky surveys. It makes use of a truncated Fast Multiple Method (FMM) for short-range gravity,…
We present a detailed analysis of the error budget for the TreePM method for doing cosmological N-Body simulations. It is shown that the choice of filter for splitting the inverse square force into short and long range components suggested…
We describe an efficient Particle-Mesh algorithm for the Connection Machine CM-5. Our particular method parallelizes well and the computation time per time step decreases as the particles become more clustered. We achieve floating-point…