Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-04-25
New Astron. 9 (2004) 111-126
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages, 9 figures, submitted to New Astronomy, check out http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~dubinski/gotpm for more info plus an a
Scientific paper
We describe a parallel, cosmological N-body code based on a hybrid scheme using the particle-mesh (PM) and Barnes-Hut (BH) oct-tree algorithm. We call the algorithm GOTPM for Grid-of-Oct-Trees-Particle-Mesh. The code is parallelized using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) library and is optimized to run on Beowulf clusters as well as symmetric multi-processors. The gravitational potential is determined on a mesh using a standard PM method with particle forces determined through interpolation. The softened PM force is corrected for short range interactions using a grid of localized BH trees throughout the entire simulation volume in a completely analogous way to P$^3$M methods. This method makes no assumptions about the local density for short range force corrections and so is consistent with the results of the P$^3$M method in the limit that the treecode opening angle parameter, $\theta \to 0$. (abridged)
Dubinski John
Humble Robin
Kim Juhan
Park Changbom
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