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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 describe a new implementation of a parallel Tree-SPH code with the aim to simulate Galaxy Formation and Evolution. The code has been parallelized using SHMEM, a Cray proprietary library to handle communications between the 256 processors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cesario Lia , Giovanni Carraro

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P3M) simulation code for the Cray T3E parallel supercomputer that is well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tom MacFarland , H. M. P. Couchman , F. R. Pearce , Jakob Pichlmeier

The TREE method has been widely used for long-range interaction {\it N}-body problems. We have developed a parallel TREE code for two-component classical plasmas with open boundary conditions and highly non-uniform charge distributions. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Byoungseon Jeon , Joel D. Kress , Lee A. Collins , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

Recent increases in supercomputing power, driven by the multi-core revolution and accelerators such as the IBM Cell processor, graphics processing units (GPUs) and Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) technology have enabled kinetic…

This posting announces public availability of the GALAXY software package developed by the author over the past 40 years. It is a highly efficient code for the evolution of (almost) isolated, collisionless stellar systems, both disk-like…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-26 J. A. Sellwood

We present a new implementation of the numerical integration of the classical, gravitational, N-body problem based on a high order Hermite's integration scheme with block time steps, with a direct evaluation of the particle-particle forces.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , M. Spera , D. Punzo

We present FlowPM, a Particle-Mesh (PM) cosmological N-body code implemented in Mesh-TensorFlow for GPU-accelerated, distributed, and differentiable simulations. We implement and validate the accuracy of a novel multi-grid scheme based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Chirag Modi , Francois Lanusse , Uros Seljak

Stellar systems are broadly divided into collisional and non-collisional. The latter are large-N systems with long relaxation timescales and can be simulated disregarding two-body interactions, while either computationally expensive direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-05 Pierfrancesco Di Cintio , Mario Pasquato , Hyunwoo Kim , Suk-Jin Yoon

Modeling of collisionless galactic systems is based on the N-body model, which requires large computational resources due to the long-range nature of gravitational forces. The most common method for calculating gravity is the TreeCode…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Nikolay M. Kuzmin , Danila S. Sirotin , Alexander V. Khoperskov

We present a new very fast tree-code which runs on massively parallel Graphical Processing Units (GPU) with NVIDIA CUDA architecture. The tree-construction and calculation of multipole moments is carried out on the host CPU, while the force…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-15 Evghenii Gaburov , Jeroen Bédorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

In this paper, we describe the performance of an $N$-body simulation of star cluster with 64k stars on a Cray XD1 system with 400 dual-core Opteron processors. A number of astrophysical $N$-body simulations were reported in SCxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , George Abe

We present recent developments in the parallelization scheme of ECHO-3DHPC, an efficient astrophysical code used in the modelling of relativistic plasmas. With the help of the Intel Software Development Tools, like Fortran compiler and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Matteo Bugli , Luigi Iapichino , Fabio Baruffa

SMILEI is a collaborative, open-source, object-oriented (C++) particle-in-cell code. To benefit from the latest advances in high-performance computing (HPC), SMILEI is co-developed by both physicists and HPC experts. The code's structures,…

We present an algorithm for parallelising the TreePM code. We use both functional and domain decompositions. Functional decomposition is used to separate the computation of long range and short range forces, as well as the task of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Suryadeep Ray , J. S. Bagla

Numerical studies of shock waves in large scale systems via kinetic simulations with millions of particles are too computationally demanding to be processed in serial. In this work we focus on optimizing the parallel performance of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Jim Howell , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Alec Staber , Irina Sagert , Terrance Strother

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…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Masaki Iwasawa , Shoichi Oshino , Michiko S. Fujii , Yasunori Hori

Simulations of galaxy formation follow the gravitational and hydrodynamical interactions between gas, stars and dark matter through cosmic time. The huge dynamic range of such calculations severely limits strong scaling behaviour of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 Tom Theuns , Aidan Chalk , Matthieu Schaller , Pedro Gonnet

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 M. Wetzstein , Andrew F. Nelson , T. Naab , A. Burkert

We present a ray tracing code to compute integrated cosmological observables on the fly in AMR N-body simulations. Unlike conventional ray tracing techniques, our code takes full advantage of the time and spatial resolution attained by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-23 Alexandre Barreira , Claudio Llinares , Sownak Bose , Baojiu Li