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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 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

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

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P^3M) simulation code for the T3E well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in cosmological contexts. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tom MacFarland , Jakob Pichlmeier , Frazer Pearce , Hugh Couchman

We have developed Remote-GRAPE, a subroutine library to use the special purpose computer GRAPE-3A. The GRAPE-3A can efficiently calculate gravitational force between particles, and construct neighbor lists. All other calculations are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Naohito Nakasato , Masao Mori , Ken'ichi Nomoto

We present a parallel implementation of the particle-particle/particle-mesh (P3M) algorithm for distributed memory clusters. The GRACOS (GRAvitational COSmology) code uses a hybrid method for both computation and domain decomposition.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shirokov , Edmund Bertschinger

We have developed a special-purpose computer for gravitational many-body simulations, GRAPE-5. GRAPE-5 is the successor of GRAPE-3. Both consist of eight custom pipeline chips (G5 chip and GRAPE chip). The difference between GRAPE-5 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Atsushi Kawai , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino , Makoto Taiji

We present a novel approach to accelerate astrophysical hydrodynamical simulations. In astrophysical many-body simulations, GRAPE (GRAvity piPE) system has been widely used by many researchers. However, in the GRAPE systems, its function is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Nakasato , T. Hamada , T. Fukushige

A P3M (Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh) algorithm to compute the gravitational force on a set of particles is described. The gravitational force is computed using Fast Fourier Transforms. This leads to an incorrect force when the distance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Theuns

In this letter we describe the pseudoparticle multipole method (P2M2), a new method to express multipole expansion by a distribution of pseudoparticles. We can use this distribution of particles to calculate high order terms in both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Atsushi Kawai , Junichiro Makino

This paper presents CUBEP3M, a publicly-available high performance cosmological N-body code and describes many utilities and extensions that have been added to the standard package. These include a memory-light runtime SO halo finder, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Ue-Li Pen , Ilian T. Iliev , Hugh Merz , J. D. Emberson , Vincent Desjacques

We continue our presentation of VINE. We begin with a description of relevant architectural properties of the serial and shared memory parallel computers on which VINE is intended to run, and describe their influences on the design of the…

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

The performance and accuracy of a GRAPE-3 system for collisionless N-body simulations is discussed. After a description of the hardware configurations available to us at Marseille, and the usefulness of on-line analysis, we concentrate on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Athanassoula , A. Bosma , J. -C. Lambert , J. Makino

In this paper, we describe the implementation and performance of GreeM, a massively parallel TreePM code for large-scale cosmological N-body simulations. GreeM uses a recursive multi-section algorithm for domain decomposition. The size of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tomoaki Ishiyama , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Junichiro Makino

We describe the implementation and performance of the ${\rm P^3T}$ (Particle-Particle Particle-Tree) scheme for simulating dense stellar systems. In ${\rm P^3T}$, the force experienced by a particle is split into short-range and long-range…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Masaki Iwasawa , Simon Portegies Zwart , Junichiro Makino

We present a two-dimensional (2D) Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (P$^3$M) algorithm with an optimized Green function and adaptive softening length for gravitational lensing studies in N-Body simulations. The analytical form of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 Kun Xu , Yipeng Jing

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

We present a computational algorithm for computing short range forces between particles. The algorithm has two distinguishing features. First, it is optimized for multi-processor computers, and will use as many processors as are available.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert C. Ferrell , Edmund Bertschinger

In this paper, we describe the design and performance of GRAPE-6A, a special-purpose computer for gravitational many-body simulations. It was designed to be used with a PC cluster, in which each node has one GRAPE-6A. Such configuration is…

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

Particle-Mesh (PM) codes are still very useful tools for testing predictions of cosmological models in cases when extra high resolution is not very important. We release for public use a cosmological PM N-body code. We provide a complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin , Jon Holtzman
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