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General purpose computing on graphic processing units (GPU) is a potential method of speeding up scientific computation with low cost and high energy efficiency. We experimented with the particle physics simulation toolkit Geant4 used at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Otto Seiskari , Jukka Kommeri , Tapio Niemi

We present numerical simulations of galaxy formation, one of the most challenging problems in computational astrophysics. The key point in such simulations is the efficient solution of the N--body problem. If the gas of a galaxy is treated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Steinmetz

GPU computing is popular due to the calculation potential of a single card. The N-body integrator GENGA is built to for this, but it suffers a performance penalty on consumer-grade GPUs due to their truncated double precision (FP64)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-18 R. Brasser , S. L. Grimm , P. Hatalova , J. G. Stadel

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

In this paper we describe the current status of the GRAPE-6 project to develop a special-purpose computer with a peak speed exceeding 100 Tflops for the simulation of astrophysical N-body problems. One of the main targets of the GRAPE-6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junichiro Makino

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…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hugo Bertiche , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera

The recent trend of using Graphics Processing Units (GPU's) for high performance computations is driven by the high ratio of price performance for these units, complemented by their cost effectiveness. At first glance, computational fluid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Kiril S. Shterev

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Steinmetz

We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with different kinds of GPU hardware. These clusters are directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 P. Berczik , R. Spurzem , L. Wang , S. Zhong , O. Veles , I. Zinchenko , S. Huang , M. Tsai , G. Kennedy , S. Li , L. Naso , C. Li

We have developed PROGRAPE-1 (PROgrammable GRAPE-1), a programmable multi-purpose computer for many-body simulations. The main difference between PROGRAPE-1 and "traditional" GRAPE systems is that the former uses FPGA (Field Programmable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tsuyoshi Hamada , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Atsushi Kawai , Junichiro Makino

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a powerful and cost effective processor for general performance computing. GPUs are capable of an order of magnitude more floating-point operations per second as compared to modern central…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-24 Mark Franey , Pritam Ranjan , Hugh Chipman

We provide a preliminary study on utilizing GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to accelerate computation for three simulation optimization tasks with either first-order or second-order algorithms. Compared to the implementation using only CPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jinghai He , Haoyu Liu , Yuhang Wu , Zeyu Zheng , Tingyu Zhu

The subjects and key questions faced by computational astrophysics using N-body simulations are discussed in the fields of globular star cluster dynamics, galactic nuclei and cosmological structure formation. After a comparison of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rainer Spurzem

Classical simulation of quantum circuits remains indispensable for algorithm development, hardware validation, and error analysis in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. However, state-vector simulation faces exponential memory…

Computational fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction simulations involving moving and deforming bodies is extremely hard. In this work, we present a graphical processing unit (GPU) optimized implementation of the sharp-interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Víctor Ramos-Osuna , Alberto Díaz-Álvarez , Raúl Lara-Cabrera

The latest Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are reported to reach up to 200 billion floating point operations per second (200 Gflops) and to have price performance of 0.1 cents per M flop. These facts raise great interest in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-31 S. Tomov , M. McGuigan , R. Bennett , G. Smith , J. Spiletic

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

This work arises on the environment of the ExaNeSt project aiming at design and development of an exascale ready supercomputer with low energy consumption profile but able to support the most demanding scientific and technical applications.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 David Goz , Sara Bertocco , Luca Tornatore , Giuliano Taffoni

Recently, a fully implicit, energy- and charge-conserving particle-in-cell method has been proposed for multi-scale, full-f kinetic simulations [G. Chen, et al., J. Comput. Phys. 230,18 (2011)]. The method employs a Jacobian-free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Daniel C. Barnes