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| Paper: |
Use of Modern Numerical Methods and Hardware in N-Body Problems |
| Volume: |
453, Advances in Computational Astrophysics: Methods, Tools, and Outcome |
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201 |
| Authors: |
Mikkola, S. |
| Abstract: |
I review concisely recent developments in N-Body simulation methods
including both numerical methods and improvements in hardware.
The focus is in the direct N-Body simulations, including the
standard Hermit method and treatment of the dynamics of
the dense cluster core by various regularization methods.
Considering the software/hardware in use today one may remark that
there are now tens of active users of the Cambridge code
NBODY6/GPU which is based on a fast PC and Graphics Processing
Units (GPUs). Efficient use of such systems is interesting
in the quest for the million-body problem. |
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