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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 compare the performance of two very different parallel gravitational $N$-body codes for astrophysical simulations on large GPU clusters, both pioneer in their own fields as well as in certain mutual scales - NBODY6++ and Bonsai. We carry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Siyi Huang , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik

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

In this paper we evaluate the performance of FPGAs for high-order stencil computation using High-Level Synthesis. We show that despite the higher computation intensity and on-chip memory requirement of such stencils compared to first-order…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Hamid Reza Zohouri , Artur Podobas , Satoshi Matsuoka

In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GRAPE-6 system, a massively-parallel special-purpose computer for astrophysical $N$-body simulations. GRAPE-6 is the successor of GRAPE-4, which was completed in 1995 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junichiro Makino , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Masaki Koga , Ken Namura

In nuclear astrophysics, quantum simulations of large inhomogeneous dense systems as they appear in the crusts of neutron stars present big challenges. The number of particles in a simulation with periodic boundary conditions is strongly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-10-05 Md Afibuzzaman , Bastian Schuetrumpf , Hasan Metin Aktulga

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 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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. Pagliaro

$N$-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

The integration of the equations of motion of N interacting particles, represents a classical problem in many branches of physics and chemistry. The direct N-body problem is at the heart of simulations studying Coulomb Crystals. We present…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-22 Jofre Pedregosa-Gutierrez , Jim Dempsey

This paper is aimed at improving the performance of the treecode algorithm for N-Body simulation by employing the NetSolve GridRPC programming model to exploit the use of multiple clusters. N-Body is a classical problem, and appears in many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Truong Vinh Truong Duy , Katsuhiro Yamazaki , Shigeru Oyanagi

We analyze the parallel performance of randomized interpolative decomposition by decomposing low rank complex-valued Gaussian random matrices up to 64 GB. We chose a Cray XMT supercomputer as it provides an almost ideal PRAM model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Andrew Lucas , Mark Stalzer , John Feo

Fast Multipole Methods (FMM) are a fundamental operation for the simulation of many physical problems. The high performance design of such methods usually requires to carefully tune the algorithm for both the targeted physics and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-04 Emmanuel Agullo , Béranger Bramas , Olivier Coulaud , Eric Darve , Matthias Messner , Takahashi Toru

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…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Simon Portegies Zwart , Robert Belleman , Peter Geldof

N-body algorithms for long-range unscreened interactions like gravity belong to a class of highly irregular problems whose optimal solution is a challenging task for present-day massively parallel computers. In this paper we describe a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 U. Becciani , R. Ansaloni , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , G. Erbacci , M. Gambera , A. Pagliaro , -

In a previous paper we introduced a new method for simulating collisional gravitational $N$-body systems with linear time scaling on $N$, based on the Multi-Particle Collision (MPC) approach. This allows us to simulate globular clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-04 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Alicia Simon-Petit , Suk-Jin Yoon

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

We have preliminary results on the parallelization of a Tree-Code for evaluating gravitational forces in N-body astrophysical systems. For our Cray T3D/CRAFT implementation, we have obtained an encouraging speed-up behavior, which reaches a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Miocchi

The dynamics of a large stellar (globular) cluster containing N=128,000 stars has been simulated by a direct summation (O(N$^2$)) method by using a heterogeneous platform. Preliminary simulations have been carried out on model systems with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , N. Pucello , V. Rosato , F. Saraceni

A collisional $N$-body simulation using NBODY5 on a single CRAY YMP processor is followed well into the post-collapse regime. This is presently one of the largest particle numbers of all such models published, but some data for an even…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rainer Spurzem , Sverre J. Aarseth