Accelerating Dust Temperature Calculations with Graphics Processing Units

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2009-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/0907.3768v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

7 pages, 2 figures, accepted to New Astronomy. Minor updates to text and performance based on feedback from referee

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When calculating the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies in radiation-transfer models, the calculation of dust grain temperatures is generally the most time-consuming part of the calculation. Because of its highly parallel nature, this calculation is perfectly suited for massively parallel general-purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). This paper presents an implementation of the calculation of dust grain equilibrium temperatures on GPUs in the Monte-Carlo radiation transfer code Sunrise, using the CUDA API. The GPU can perform this calculation 69 times faster than the 8 CPU cores, showing great potential for accelerating calculations of galaxy SEDs.

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