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The particle mass used in cosmology N-body simulations is close to $10^{8}M_{\odot}$, which is about $10^{65}$ times larger than the GeV scale expected in particle physics. However, self-gravity interacting particle systems made up of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-20 Weike Xiao , Xufen Wu

The interstellar medium is observed in a hierarchical fractal structure over several orders of magnitude in scale. Aiming to understand the origin of this structure, we carry out numerical simulations of molecular cloud fragmentation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Semelin , F. Combes

Electronic performance predictions of modern nanotransistors require nonequilibrium Green's functions including incoherent scattering on phonons as well as inclusion of random alloy disorder and surface roughness effects. The solution of…

Astrophysical systems differ often in two points from classical thermodynamical systems: 1.) They are open and 2.) gravity is a dominant factor. Both modifies the homogeneous equilibrium structure, known from classical thermodynamics. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Huber

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

We have developed a highly-tuned software library that accelerates the calculation of quadrupole terms in the Barnes-Hut tree code by use of a SIMD instruction set on the x86 architecture, Advanced Vector eXtensions 2 (AVX2). Our code is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Tetsushi Kodama , Tomoaki Ishiyama

CO$N$CEPT (COsmological $N$-body CodE in PyThon) is a free and open-source code for cosmological $N$-body simulations on massively parallel computers with distributed memory. Collisionless dark matter is the only implemented particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Jeppe Dakin

We introduce GINKAKU, a new cosmological $N$-body code developed for the Dark Quest II (DQ2) simulation campaign and designed for controlled ensemble production across the cosmological model space required by next-generation galaxy surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Takahiro Nishimichi , Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa

We present recent updates and improvements of the graphical processing unit (GPU) N-body code GENGA. Modern state-of-the-art simulations of planet formation require the use of a very high number of particles to accurately resolve planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Simon L. Grimm , Joachim G. Stadel , Ramon Brasser , Matthias M. M. Meier , Christoph Mordasini

A major goal of computational astrophysics is to simulate the Milky Way Galaxy with sufficient resolution down to individual stars. However, the scaling fails due to some small-scale, short-timescale phenomena, such as supernova explosions.…

We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with different kinds of GPU hardware. These clusters are directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 P. Berczik , R. Spurzem , L. Wang , S. Zhong , O. Veles , I. Zinchenko , S. Huang , M. Tsai , G. Kennedy , S. Li , L. Naso , C. Li

Cosmological large scale structure $N$-body simulations are computation-light, memory-heavy problems in supercomputing. The considerable amount of memory is usually dominated by an inefficient way of storing more than sufficient phase space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Hao-Ran Yu , Ue-Li Pen , Xin Wang

The latest Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are reported to reach up to 200 billion floating point operations per second (200 Gflops) and to have price performance of 0.1 cents per M flop. These facts raise great interest in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-31 S. Tomov , M. McGuigan , R. Bennett , G. Smith , J. Spiletic

We present MG-GLAM, a code developed for the very fast production of full $N$-body cosmological simulations in modified gravity (MG) models. We describe the implementation, numerical tests and first results of a large suite of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-13 César Hernández-Aguayo , Cheng-Zong Ruan , Baojiu Li , Christian Arnold , Carlton M. Baugh , Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada

The modern study of the dynamics of stellar systems requires the use of high-performance computers. Indeed, an accurate modelization of the structure and evolution of self-gravitating systems like planetary systems, open clusters, globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , P. Di Matteo , P. Miocchi

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

I compare various popular and unpopular techniques for simulating large collisionless stellar systems. I give a quantitative comparison of the raw cpu times required for five separate codes, including tree codes and basis function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J A Sellwood

The aim of this work is to quantitatively evaluate the impact of computation on the energy consumption on ARM MPSoC platforms, exploiting CPUs, embedded GPUs and FPGAs. One of them possibly represents the future of High Performance…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-01 D. Goz , G. Ieronymakis , V. Papaefstathiou , N. Dimou , S. Bertocco , A. Ragagnin , L. Tornatore , G. Taffoni , I. Coretti

Since its first formulation in 1983, Milgromian dynamics (MOND) has been very successful in predicting the gravitational potential of galaxies from the distribution of baryons alone, including general scaling relations and detailed rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fabian Lüghausen , Benoit Famaey , Pavel Kroupa

We outline the steps needed in to calibrate the Monte Carlo code in order to perform large scale simulations of real globular clusters. We calibrate the results against $N$-body simulations for $N = 2500$, 10000 and for the old open cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mirek Giersz , Douglas C. Heggie