Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1995 · 10 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesHigh-performance ComputingPhysicsAstrophysicsComputational PhysicsCosmologyAstrophysical SimulationsComputational AstrophysicsGalactic DynamicsHardware AccelerationN-body SimulationsNumerical AstrophysicsCosmological SimulationsGalactic Gas DynamicsGalactic N-body SimulationsGalaxy Formation SimulationsHardware Acceleration SupportHigh-performance Computing In AstrophysicsSimulation Acceleration
N-body methods are used to simulate the evolution and interaction of galaxies. These simulations are usually run on large-scale supercomputers or on very expensive full-custom hardare. This paper presents an alternative hardware method for acceleration of N-body simulations. The method yields a significant fraction of the performance of custom hardware and provides a great deal more flexibility. A protoype implementation is presented.