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Direct gravitational simulations of n-body systems have a time complexity O(n^2), which gets computationally expensive as the number of bodies increases. Distributing this workload to multiple cores significantly speeds up the computation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-30 Dhananjay Saikumar

We present parallel algorithms for constructing and traversing sparse octrees on graphics processing units (GPUs). The algorithms are based on parallel-scan and sort methods. To test the performance and feasibility, we implemented them in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-11 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

We present parallelization of a quantum-chemical tree-code [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 106}, 5526 (1997)] for linear scaling computation of the Coulomb matrix. Equal time partition [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 118}, 9128 (2003)] is used to load balance…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Chee Kwan Gan , C. J. Tymczak , Matt Challacombe

We present a new parallel PM N-body code named PMFAST that is freely available to the public. PMFAST is based on a two-level mesh gravity solver where the gravitational forces are separated into long and short range components. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugh Merz , Ue-Li Pen , Hy Trac

We present a gravitational hierarchical N-body code that is designed to run efficiently on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). All parts of the algorithm are executed on the GPU which eliminates the need for data transfer between the Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-12 Jeroen Bédorf , Evghenii Gaburov , Simon Portegies Zwart

We present $\texttt{Abacus}$, a fast and accurate cosmological $N$-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Nina A. Maksimova , Philip A. Pinto

(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

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

The time-symmetric block time--step (TSBTS) algorithm is a newly developed efficient scheme for $N$--body integrations. It is constructed on an era-based iteration. In this work, we re-designed the TSBTS integration scheme with dynamically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Kaplan , H. Saygin

The scalability and efficiency of graph applications are significantly constrained by conventional systems and their supporting programming models. Technology trends like multicore, manycore, and heterogeneous system architectures are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-22 Chirag Dekate , Matthew Anderson , Maciej Brodowicz , Hartmut Kaiser , Bryce Adelstein-Lelbach , Thomas Sterling

This article introduces a highly parallel algorithm for molecular dynamics simulations with short-range forces on single node multi- and many-core systems. The algorithm is designed to achieve high parallel speedups for strongly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 R. Meyer

In this report we describe a parallel implementation of a Tree-SPH code realized using the SHMEM libraries in the Cray T3E supercomputer at CINECA. We show the result of a 3D test to check the code performances against its scalar version.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cesario Lia , Giovanni Carraro , Cesare Chiosi , Marco Voli

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

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

We propose a parallel algorithm for local, on the fly, model checking of a fragment of CTL that is well-suited for modern, multi-core architectures. This model-checking algorithm takes bene t from a parallel state space construction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Rodrigo Tacla Saad , Silvano Dal Zilio , Bernard Berthomieu

We describe a parallel, cosmological N-body code based on a hybrid scheme using the particle-mesh (PM) and Barnes-Hut (BH) oct-tree algorithm. We call the algorithm GOTPM for Grid-of-Oct-Trees-Particle-Mesh. The code is parallelized using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 John Dubinski , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park , Robin Humble

We present and discuss the characteristics and performances, both in term of computational speed and precision, of a numerical code which numerically integrates the equation of motions of N 'particles' interacting via Newtonian gravitation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , D. Maschietti

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 paper presents a fast, economical particle-multiple-mesh N-body code optimized for large-N modelling of collisionless dynamical processes, such as black-hole wandering or bar-halo interactions, occurring within isolated galaxies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 John Magorrian

We present a new open-source cosmological code, called SWIFT, designed to solve the equations of hydrodynamics using a particle-based approach (Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics) on hybrid shared/distributed-memory architectures. SWIFT was…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Matthieu Schaller , Pedro Gonnet , Aidan B. G. Chalk , Peter W. Draper