Oct-tree Method on GPU

Details Oct-tree Method on GPU Oct-tree Method on GPU

2009-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/0909.0541v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Poster paper to be appeared in SC09

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The kd-tree is a fundamental tool in computer science. Among others, an application of the kd-tree search (oct-tree method) to fast evaluation of particle interactions and neighbor search is highly important since computational complexity of these problems are reduced from O(N^2) with a brute force method to O(N log N) with the tree method where N is a number of particles. In this paper, we present a parallel implementation of the tree method running on a graphic processor unit (GPU). We successfully run a simulation of structure formation in the universe very efficiently. On our system, which costs roughly $900, the run with N ~ 2.87x10^6 particles took 5.79 hours and executed 1.2x10^13 force evaluations in total. We obtained the sustained computing speed of 21.8 Gflops and the cost per Gflops of 41.6/Gflops that is two and half times better than the previous record in 2006.

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