Performance tuning of N-body codes on modern microprocessors: I. Direct integration with a hermite scheme on x86_64 architecture

New Astronomy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 169-181

  Nitadori, Keigo ^a   Makino, Junichiro ^b   Hut, Piet ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Methods: numerical; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

DOUBLE-PRECISION ACCURACY; HERMITE SCHEME; SINGLE-PRECISION IMPLEMENTATIONS; STELLAR DYNAMICS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33751225374     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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