High-performance direct gravitational N-body simulations on graphics processing units

New Astronomy

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 641-650

  Portegies Zwart, Simon F ^a,b   Belleman, Robert G ^a   Geldof, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gravitation; Methods: N body simulation; Methods: Numerical; Stellar dynamics

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; METHODS: N-BODY SIMULATION; STELLAR DYNAMICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHIC METHODS; INTEGRATION; PRECISION ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

EID: 34447572678     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newast.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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