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Accelerating NBODY6 with a GPU-Enabled Particle-Particle Particle-Tree Scheme

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Anthony D. Arnold, Holger Baumgardt, Long Wang

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Submitted 22 Oct 2021

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The authors' main claim We describe a modified version of the NBODY6 code for simulating star clusters which greatly improves computational efficiency while sacrificing little in the way of accuracy.

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CitationAnthony D. Arnold, Holger Baumgardt, Long Wang. "Accelerating NBODY6 with a GPU-Enabled Particle-Particle Particle-Tree Scheme." arXiv:2110.11658 (2021). https://pith.science/paper/BX7MOFNC
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We describe a modified version of the NBODY6 code for simulating star clusters which greatly improves computational efficiency while sacrificing little in the way of accuracy. The distant force calculator is replaced by a GPU-enabled Barnes-Hut code, and integration is done with a standard leap frog scheme. Short-range forces continue to use the CPU-based fourth-order Hermite predictor-corrector scheme of NBODY6. Our code outperforms NBODY6 for systems with more than $3 \times 10^5$ particles and runs more than a factor 2 faster for systems of $10^6$ particles with similar energy conservation. Our code should be useful for simulating realistic dense stellar clusters, such as globular clusters or galactic nuclei.

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s0 We describe a modified version of the NBODY6 code for simulating star clusters which greatly improves computational efficiency while sacrificing little in the way of accuracy. contribution 0.99 0.89 0.65 asserted 1.00
s1 The distant force calculator is replaced by a GPU-enabled Barnes-Hut code, and integration is done with a standard leap frog scheme. method 0.98 0.83 0.05 asserted 1.00
s2 Short-range forces continue to use the CPU-based fourth-order Hermite predictor-corrector scheme of NBODY6. method 0.99 0.59 0.03 asserted 1.00
s3 Our code outperforms NBODY6 for systems with more than $3 \times 10^5$ particles and runs more than a factor 2 faster for systems of $10^6$ particles with similar energy conservation. result 1.00 0.96 0.68 asserted 1.00
s4 Our code should be useful for simulating realistic dense stellar clusters, such as globular clusters or galactic nuclei. interpretation 0.73 0.14 0.11 hedged possibility 0.89

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We describe a modified version of the NBODY6 code for simulating star clusters which greatly improves computational efficiency while sacrificing little in the way of accuracy. The distant force calculator is replaced by a GPU-enabled Barnes-Hut code, and integration is done with a standard leap frog scheme. Short-range forces continue to use the CPU-based fourth-order Hermite predictor-corrector scheme of NBODY6. Our code outperforms NBODY6 for systems with more than $3 \times 10^5$ particles and runs more than a factor 2 faster for systems of $10^6$ particles with similar energy conservation. Our code should be useful for simulating realistic dense stellar clusters, such as globular clusters or galactic nuclei.

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  • The regular force calculator in is a GPU-enabled tree code provided by the Bonsai library [ref] .

    Bonsai: A GPU Tree-Code · Force Calculation · 1.00

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  • Historically, the dominant component with regards to computational time in N-body gravitational simulations has been the calculation of the $N^2$ gravitational interactions [ref] .

    Bonsai: A GPU Tree-Code · Force Calculation · 0.83

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