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How to build and use special purpose PC clusters in stellar dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2006

Rainer Spurzem
Rainer Spurzem*
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Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum Astronomie Universität Heidelberg, Mönchhofstr. 12-14, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany email: spurzem@ari.uni-heidelberg.de
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Large scale, direct particle-particle, brute force N-body simulations are required to accurately resolve numerically transport processes of energy and angular momentum due to two-body relaxation, and interactions between supermassive black holes and other particles having a much smaller mass. Direct accurate N-body codes are the widely used tool for such simulations, e.g., NBODY4 or NBODY6 (Aarseth 1999, 2003), see also Harfst et al. (2007) for a less complex code variant, used for benchmarks in this paper. Makino (2002) has presented another direct N-body summation code, which is optimized for a quadratic layout of processor (p required to be a square number).

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Highlights of Astronomy 14: Highlights of Astronomy , August 2006 , pp. 426 - 427
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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