Supercomputing and stellar dynamics
Dipartimento di Fisica Sapienza, Universita di Roma, P.le A.Moro 2, I-00185 Roma, Italy
Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana Supplement, v.14, p.210 (2010), arXiv:0909.0879 [astro-ph.IM] (4 Sep 2009)
@article{capuzzo2009supercomputing,
title={Supercomputing and stellar dynamics},
author={Capuzzo-Dolcetta, R.},
journal={Arxiv preprint arXiv:0909.0879},
year={2009}
}
In this paper I will outline some of the aspects and problems of modern celestial mechanics and stellar dynamics, in the context of the quickly growing computing facilities. I will point the attention on the great advantages in using, for astrophysical simulations, the modern, fast and cheap Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) acting as true supercomputers. Finally, I present and discuss some characteristics and performances of a new double-parallel code exploiting the joint power of multicore CPUs and GPUs.
November 13, 2010 by hgpu
