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Galaxy mergers have been investigated for decades using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), but recent work highlighting inaccuracies inherent in the traditional SPH technique calls into question the reliability of previous studies. We…

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A method of adapting smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with periodic boundary conditions for use with the special purpose device GRAPE is presented. GRAPE (GRAvity PipE) solves the Poisson and force equations for an N-body system by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ralf Klessen

Generative models have the potential to transform the way we emulate Earth's changing climate. Previous generative approaches rely on weather-scale autoregression for climate emulation, but this is inherently slow for long climate horizons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jeremy Andrew Irvin , Jiaqi Han , Zikui Wang , Abdulaziz Alharbi , Yufei Zhao , Nomin-Erdene Bayarsaikhan , Daniele Visioni , Andrew Y. Ng , Duncan Watson-Parris

A large set of TREESPH simulations is used to test the global morphology of galaxy clusters and its evolution against X-ray data. A powerful method to investigate substructures in galaxy clusters are the power ratios introduced by Buote &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Valdarnini , S. Ghizzardi , S. Bonometto

Cosmological N-body simulations rank among the most computationally intensive efforts today. A key challenge is the analysis of structure, substructure, and the merger history for many billions of compact particle clusters, called halos.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-20 Esteban Rangel , Nicholas Frontiere , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Wei-keng Liao , Ankit Agrawal , Alok Choudhary

SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanation) values provide a game theoretic interpretation of the predictions of machine learning models based on Shapley values. While exact calculation of SHAP values is computationally intractable in general, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Rory Mitchell , Eibe Frank , Geoffrey Holmes

We have incorporated star formation algorithms into a hybrid N-body/smoothed particle hydrodynamics code (TREESPH) in order to describe the star forming properties of disk galaxies over timescales of a few billion years. The models employ a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris Mihos , Lars Hernquist

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

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

Speculative decoding is a technique to leverage hardware concurrency in order to enable multiple steps of token generation in a single forward pass, thus improving the efficiency of large-scale autoregressive (AR) Transformer models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yangchao Wu , Zongyue Qin , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

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 introduce several parallel algorithms operating on a distributed forest of adaptive quadtrees/octrees. They are targeted at large-scale applications relying on data layouts that are more complex than required for standard finite…

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N-body algorithms for long-range unscreened interactions like gravity belong to a class of highly irregular problems whose optimal solution is a challenging task for present-day massively parallel computers. In this paper we describe a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 U. Becciani , R. Ansaloni , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , G. Erbacci , M. Gambera , A. Pagliaro , -

FLY is a parallel treecode which makes heavy use of the one-sided communication paradigm to handle the management of the tree structure. In its public version the code implements the equations for cosmological evolution, and can be run for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Antonuccio-Delogu , U. Becciani , D. Ferro

This paper describes a novel approach to neighbour-finding in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations with large dynamic range in smoothing length. This approach is based on hierarchical cell decompositions, sorted interactions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Pedro Gonnet , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns , Aidan B. G. Chalk

Recently, task-based programming models have emerged as a prominent alternative among shared-memory parallel programming paradigms. Inherently asynchronous, these models provide native support for dynamic load balancing and incorporate data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Nicolas Guidotti , Pedro Ceyrat , João Barreto , José Monteiro , Rodrigo Rodrigues , Ricardo Fonseca , Xavier Martorell , Antonio J. Peña

We have invented a new algorithm to use with self-gravitating SPH Star Formation codes. The new method is designed to enable SPH simulations to self-regulate their numerical resolution, i.e. the number of SPH particles; the latter is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Spyridon Kitsionas

We present the first hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation using the new moving mesh code AREPO and compare the results with GADGET simulations based on a traditional smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) technique. The two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mark Vogelsberger , Debora Sijacki , Dusan Keres , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Finding the exact close neighbors of each fluid element in mesh-free computational hydrodynamical methods, such as the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH), often becomes a main bottleneck for scaling their performance beyond a few million…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Aurélien Cavelan , Rubén M. Cabezón , Jonas H. M. Korndorfer , Florina M. Ciorba