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The performance of biomolecular molecular dynamics simulations has steadily increased on modern high performance computing resources but acceleration of the analysis of the output trajectories has lagged behind so that analyzing simulations…

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The stability of a galaxy model is most easily assessed through N-body simulation. Particle-mesh codes have been widely used for this purpose, since they enable the largest numbers of particles to be employed. We show that the functional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David J. D. Earn , J. A. Sellwood

N-body simulations are used to model the early evolution of globular clusters. These simulations include residual gas which was not turned into stars which is expelled from the globular cluster by the actions of massive stars. The results…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Simon P Goodwin

We present computational performance comparisons of gas-solid simulations performed on current CPU and GPU architectures using MFiX Exa, a CFD-DEM solver that leverages hybrid CPU+GPU parallelism. A representative fluidized bed simulation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shandong Lao , Aaron Holt , Deepthi Vaidhynathan , Hariswaran Sitaraman , Christine M. Hrenya , Thomas Hauser

(Abridged) We have developed a numerical software library for collisionless N-body simulations named "Phantom-GRAPE" which highly accelerates force calculations among particles by use of a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Keigo Nitadori , Takashi Okamoto

The discrete distribution clustering algorithm, namely D2-clustering, has demonstrated its usefulness in image classification and annotation where each object is represented by a bag of weighed vectors. The high computational complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-07 Yu Zhang , James Z. Wang , Jia Li

Production-quality parallel applications are often a mixture of diverse operations, such as computation- and communication-intensive, regular and irregular, tightly coupled and loosely linked operations. In conventional construction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Ivy Bo Peng , Roberto Gioiosa , Gokcen Kestor , Erwin Laure , Stefano Markidis

We present the basic idea, implementation, measured performance and performance model of FDPS (Framework for developing particle simulators). FDPS is an application-development framework which helps the researchers to develop particle-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Masaki Iwasawa , Ataru Tanikawa , Natsuki Hosono , Keigo Nitadori , Takayuki Muranushi , Junichiro Makino

The simulation of rich star clusters presents challenging problems of several kinds, including the design of suitable hardware and software, and numerous theoretical problems in stellar dynamics and stellar physics. Great progress has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Heggie

An efficient technique to simulate turbulent particle-laden flow at high mass loadings within the four-way coupled simulation regime is presented. The technique implements large eddy simulation, discrete phase simulation, a deterministic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-13 Derrick O. Njobuenwu , Michael Fairweather

We present Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (PPPM) and Tree Particle-Mesh (TreePM) implementations on GRAPE-5 and GRAPE-6A systems, special-purpose hardware accelerators for gravitational many-body simulations. In our PPPM and TreePM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Yoshikawa , Toshiyuki Fukushige

Using a realistic molecular catalyst system, we conduct scaling studies of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations using the CP2K code on both Intel Xeon CPU and NVIDIA V100 GPU architectures. We explore using process placement and…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Dewi Yokelson , Nikolay V. Tkachenko , Robert Robey , Ying Wai Li , Pavel A. Dub

We present the novel algorithmically regularised integration method MSTAR for high accuracy ($|\Delta E/E| \gtrsim 10^{-14}$) integrations of N-body systems using minimum spanning tree coordinates. The two-fold parallelisation of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-30 Antti Rantala , Pauli Pihajoki , Matias Mannerkoski , Peter H. Johansson , Thorsten Naab

Modern supercomputers are increasingly requiring the presence of accelerators and co-processors. However, it has not been easy to achieve good performance on such heterogeneous clusters. The key challenge has been to ensure good load…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-18 Jesse Kelly , Omar Ghattas , Hari Sundar

This study addresses the challenge of simulating realistic particle systems by proposing a novel particle decomposition scheme that improves the parallel performance of surface resolved particle simulations. Realistic particle systems often…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-21 J. E. Marquardt , N. Hafen , M. J. Krause

The N-body problem is a classic problem involving a system of N discrete bodies mutually interacting in a dynamical system. At any moment in time there are N*(N - 1)/2 such interactions occurring. This scaling as N^2 leads to computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alexander Brandt

Heterogeneous multi-core architectures combine a few "host" cores, optimized for single-thread performance, with many small energy-efficient "accelerator" cores for data-parallel processing, on a single chip. Offloading a computation to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luca Colagrande , Luca Benini

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

This article presents an evaluation of the computational performance and energy efficiency of the Cronos cluster, composed of Raspberry Pi4 and 3b microcomputers designed for educational purposes. Experimental tests were performed using the…

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