SIMD-vectorized implicit symplectic integrators can outperform explicit ones
Abstract
The main purpose of this work is to present a SIMD-vectorized implementation of the symplectic 16th-order 8-stage implicit Runge-Kutta integrator based on collocation with Gauss-Legendre nodes (IRKGL16-SIMD), and to show that it can outperform state-of-the-art symplectic explicit integrators for high-precision numerical integrations (in double-precision floating-point arithmetic) of non-stiff Hamiltonian ODE systems. Our IRKGL16-SIMD integrator leverages Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) based parallelism (in a way that is transparent to the user) to significantly enhance the performance of the sequential IRKGL16 implementation. We present numerical experiments comparing IRKGL16-SIMD with state-of-the-art high-order explicit symplectic methods for the numerical integration of several Hamiltonian systems in double-precision floating-point arithmetic.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2511.03655,
title = {SIMD-vectorized implicit symplectic integrators can outperform explicit ones},
author = {Mikel Antoñana and Joseba Makazaga and Ander Murua},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.03655},
year = {2026}
}