Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-05-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to AJ, 12 pages
Scientific paper
10.1086/118485
We describe how long-term solar system orbit integration could be implemented on a parallel computer. The interesting feature of our algorithm is that each processor is assigned not to a planet or a pair of planets but to a time-interval. Thus, the 1st week, 2nd week,..., 1000th week of an orbit are computed concurrently. The problem of matching the input to the (n+1)-st processor with the output of the n-th processor can be solved efficiently by an iterative procedure. Our work is related to the so-called waveform relaxation methods in the computational mathematics literature, but is specialized to the Hamiltonian and nearly integrable nature of solar system orbits. Simulations on serial machines suggest that, for the reasonable accuracy requirement of 1" per century, our preliminary parallel algorithm running on a 1000-processor machine would be about 50 times faster than the fastest available serial algorithm, and we have suggestions for further improvements in speed.
Saha Prasenjit
Stadel Joachim
Tremaine Scott
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