Hardware acceleration of n-body simulations for galactic dynamics
Date
1995ISBN
0-8194-1971-0978-0-8194-1971-2
Publisher
Affiliation: Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA, United StatesCorrespondence Address: Cook, Todd A.
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USAUnited States
Source
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical EngineeringVolume
2607Pages
115-126Google Scholar check
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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.