A fully parallel, high precision, N-body code running on hybrid computing platforms

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 580-593

  Capuzzo Dolcetta, R ^a   Spera, M ^a   Punzo, D ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Methods: numerical; N body systems

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; GRAVITATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

CODE RUNNING; COMPUTING PLATFORM; GRAVITATIONAL N-BODY PROBLEMS; HIGH-ORDER; HIGH-PRECISION; HYBRID COMPUTING; METHOD: NUMERICAL; N-BODY SYSTEM; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PROBLEM-BASED;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 84872388182     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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