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An algorithm for simulating self-gravitating cosmological astrophysical fluids is presented. The advantages include a large dynamic range, parallelizability, high resolution per grid element and fast execution speed. The code is based on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ue-Li Pen

Exascale supercomputing unleashes the potential for simulations of astrophysical systems with unprecedented resolution. Taking full advantage of this computing power requires the development of new algorithms and numerical methods that are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 L. Sewanou , G. Laibe , B. Commerçon

This study presents scaling results and a performance analysis across different supercomputers and compilers for the Met Office weather and climate model, LFRic. The model is shown to scale to large numbers of nodes which meets the design…

Modeling of interacting galaxies suffers from an extended parameter space prohibiting traditional grid based search strategies. As an alternative approach a combination of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) with fast restricted N-body simulations can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Theis , Stefan Harfst

Regional hydrology studies are often supported by high resolution simulations of subsurface flow that require expensive and extensive computations. Efficient usage of the latest high performance parallel computing systems becomes a…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-10-04 Carsten Burstedde , Jose A. Fonseca , Stefan Kollet

We describe an implementation of a particle physics module available for the PLUTO code, appropriate for the dynamical evolution of a plasma consisting of a thermal fluid and a non-thermal component represented by relativistic charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 A. Mignone , G. Bodo , B. Vaidya , G. Mattia

Multi-Byzantine Fault Tolerant (Multi-BFT) consensus, which runs multiple BFT instances in parallel, has recently emerged as a promising approach to overcome the leader bottleneck in classical BFT protocols. However, existing designs rely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Hanzheng Lyu , Shaokang Xie , Jianyu Niu , Mohammad Sadoghi , Yinqian Zhang , Cong Wang , Ivan Beschastnikh , Chen Feng

Large scale simulations are a key pillar of modern research and require ever-increasing computational resources. Different novel manycore architectures have emerged in recent years on the way towards the exascale era. Performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Philipp Grete , Forrest W. Glines , Brian W. O'Shea

The electrical and electronic engineering has used parallel programming to solve its large scale complex problems for performance reasons. However, as parallel programming requires a non-trivial distribution of tasks and data, developers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-05 Antonio Wendell De Oliveira Rodrigues , Frédéric Guyomarc'H , Jean-Luc Dekeyser , Yvonnick Le Menach

Particle tracking has several important applications for solute transport studies in aquifer systems. Travel time distribution at observation points, particle coordinates in time and streamlines are some practical results providing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Rodrigo Pérez-Illanes , Daniel Fernàndez-Garcia

We describe a strategy for code modernisation of Gadget, a widely used community code for computational astrophysics. The focus of this work is on node-level performance optimisation, targeting current multi/many-core IntelR architectures.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Fabio Baruffa , Luigi Iapichino , Nicolay J. Hammer , Vasileios Karakasis

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) method for plasma simulation tracks particle phase space information using particle and grid data structures. High computational costs in 2D and 3D device-scale PIC simulations necessitate parallelization, with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Libn Varghese , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Miral Shah , Mainak Bandyopadhyay

Cosmic ray electron (CRE) acceleration and cooling are important physical processes in astrophysics. We develop an approximative framework to treat CRE physics in the parallel smoothed particle hydrodynamics code Gadget-3. In our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-03 Dongchao Zheng , Weitian Li , Zhenghao Zhu , Chenxi Shan , Jiajun Zhang , Linfeng Xiao , Xiaoli Lian , Dan Hu

This paper focuses on the parallel implementation of a direct $N$-body method~(particle-particle algorithm) and the application of multiple GPUs for galactic dynamics simulations. Application of a hybrid OpenMP-CUDA technology is considered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 S. S. Khrapov , S. A. Khoperskov , A. V. Khoperskov

The code we describe (FLY) is a newly written code (using the tree N-body method), for three-dimensional self-gravitating collisionless systems evolution. FLY is a fully parallel code based on the tree Barnes-Hut algorithm and periodical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu

Simulating large-scale microswimmer dynamics in viscous fluid poses significant challenges due to the coupled high spatial and temporal complexity. Conventional high-performance computing (HPC) methods often address these two dimensions in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Ruixiang Huang , Weifan Liu

We present Quokka, a new subcycling-in-time, block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) radiation hydrodynamics code optimised for graphics processing units (GPUs). Quokka solves the equations of hydrodynamics with the piecewise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Benjamin D. Wibking , Mark R. Krumholz

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

Typical biomolecular systems such as cellular membranes, DNA, and protein complexes are highly charged. Thus, efficient and accurate treatment of electrostatic interactions is of great importance in computational modelling of such systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Patra , Marja T. Hyvonen , Emma Falck , Mohsen Sabouri-Ghomi , Ilpo Vattulainen , Mikko Karttunen

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