Acceleration of hybrid MPI parallel NBODY6++ for large N-body globular cluster simulations

Long Wang; Rainer Spurzem; Sverre Aarseth; Keigo Nitadori; Peter Berczik; M. B.N. Kouwenhoven; Thorsten Naab

doi:10.1017/S174392131500798X

Acceleration of hybrid MPI parallel NBODY6++ for large N-body globular cluster simulations

Long Wang
, Rainer Spurzem
, Sverre Aarseth
, Keigo Nitadori
, Peter Berczik
, M. B.N. Kouwenhoven
, Thorsten Naab

Peking University
Chinese Academy of Sciences
University of Cambridge
RIKEN
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

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Previous research on globular clusters (GCs) dynamics is mostly based on semi-analytic, Fokker-Planck, Monte-Carlo methods and on direct N-body (NB) simulations. These works have great advantages but also limits since GCs are massive and compact and close encounters and binaries play very important roles in their dynamics. The former three methods make approximations and assumptions, while expensive computing time and number of stars limit the latter method. The current largest direct NB simulation has ∼ 500k stars (Heggie 2014). Here, we accelerate the direct NB code NBODY6++ (which extends NBODY6 to supercomputers by using MPI) with new parallel computing technologies (GPU, OpenMP + SSE/AVX). Our aim is to handle large N (up to 10⁶) direct NB simulations to obtain better understanding of the dynamical evolution of GCs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	260-261
Number of pages	2
Journal	Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S174392131500798X
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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globular clusters: general
methods: numerical

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Acceleration of hybrid MPI parallel NBODY6++ for large N-body globular cluster simulations

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