N-Body Lectures

Sverre Aarseth, June 2017

Introductory Hands-On Lectures on Direct High-Accuracy N-Body Simulations, held at the ARI in June 2017; last lecture by R. Spurzem.

The lectures were taking place June 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, approx. 2:00 - 7:00 p.m. Contact Rainer Spurzem .

On Regularization 1
On Regularization 2
On Regularization 3
Lecture on computational thinking by Wen-Mei Hwu, UIUC, 2012 in Beijing
Parallel Lecture 1
Parallel Lecture 2
Here you can find two images how the results should look like for the parallel test codes and comparison with Amdahl's law (for N=5000; the results have been produced by students Sotirios Nikas and Maximilian Häberle in my GPU programming course in 2016):

Without GPU:

With GPU:


Languages, API's and Development Tools (Slides of NVIDIA 2010)
Introduction to CUDA C (Slides of NVIDIA 2010)

Sverre's Files zipped Jun 22-29
A Literature List
Sverre Aarseth's own page
Sverre's IoA Cambridge Home Page
The N-body Web Interface / Simulation Testbed


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