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Numerical Cosmology powered by GPUs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2011

Dominique Aubert
Dominique Aubert*
Affiliation:
Observatoire Astronomique, Universite de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550 11 rue de l'Universite, 67000 StrasbourgFrance email: dominique.aubert@astro.unistra.fr
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Abstract

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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) offer a new way to accelerate numerical calculations by means of on-board massive parallelisation. We discuss two examples of GPU implementation relevant for cosmological simulations, an N-Body Particle-mesh solver and a radiative transfer code. The latter has also been ported on multi-GPU clusters. The range of acceleration (x30-x80) achieved here offer bright perspective for large scale simulations driven by GPUs.

Keywords

methods: n-body simulationsnumericalcosmology
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S270: Computational Star Formation , May 2010 , pp. 397 - 400
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2011

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