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The ART of Cosmological Simulations

In: High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2007

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  • Stefan Gottlöber

    (Astrophysical Institute Potsdam)

  • Anatoly Klypin

    (New Mexico State University, Astronomy Department)

Abstract

We describe the basic ideas of MPI parallelization of the N-body Adaptive Refinement Tree (ART) code. The code uses self-adaptive domain decomposition where boundaries of the domains (parallelepipeds) constantly move—with many degrees of freedom—in the search of the minimum of CPU time. The actual CPU time spent by each MPI task on previous time-step is used to adjust boundaries for the next time-step. For a typical decomposition of 53 domains, the number of possible changes in boundaries is 384≈1040. We describe two algorithms of finding minimum of CPU time for configurations with a large number of domains. Each MPI task in our code solves the N-body problem where the large-scale distribution of matter outside of the boundaries of a domain is represented by relatively few temporary large particles created by other domains. At the beginning of a zero-level time-step, domains create and exchange large particles. Then each domain advances all its particles for many small time-steps. At the end of the large step, the domains decide where to place new boundaries and re-distribute particles. The scheme requires little communications between processors and is very efficient for large cosmological simulations.

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  • Stefan Gottlöber & Anatoly Klypin, 2009. "The ART of Cosmological Simulations," Springer Books, in: Siegfried Wagner & Matthias Steinmetz & Arndt Bode & Matthias Brehm (ed.), High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2007, pages 29-43, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-69182-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69182-2_3
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