scholarly journals The Abacus cosmological N-body code

Author(s):  
Lehman H Garrison ◽  
Daniel J Eisenstein ◽  
Douglas Ferrer ◽  
Nina A Maksimova ◽  
Philip A Pinto

Abstract We present Abacus, a fast and accurate cosmological N-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces, reducing the former to direct 1/r2 summation and the latter to a discrete convolution over multipoles. The method achieves 70 million particle updates per second per node of the Summit supercomputer, while maintaining a median fractional force error of 10−5. We express the simulation time step as an event-driven “pipeline”, incorporating asynchronous events such as completion of co-processor work, Input/Output, and network communication. Abacus has been used to produce the largest suite of N-body simulations to date, the AbacusSummit suite of 60 trillion particles (Maksimova et al., 2021), incorporating on-the-fly halo finding. Abacus enables the production of mock catalogs of the volume and resolution required by the coming generation of cosmological surveys.

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 4378
Author(s):  
Anna Helena Mazurek ◽  
Łukasz Szeleszczuk ◽  
Dariusz Maciej Pisklak

This review focuses on a combination of ab initio molecular dynamics (aiMD) and NMR parameters calculations using quantum mechanical methods. The advantages of such an approach in comparison to the commonly applied computations for the structures optimized at 0 K are presented. This article was designed as a convenient overview of the applied parameters such as the aiMD type, DFT functional, time step, or total simulation time, as well as examples of previously studied systems. From the analysis of the published works describing the applications of such combinations, it was concluded that including fast, small-amplitude motions through aiMD has a noticeable effect on the accuracy of NMR parameters calculations.


Author(s):  
Zhanjiang Wang ◽  
Xiaoqing Jin ◽  
Shuangbiao Liu ◽  
Leon M. Keer ◽  
Jian Cao ◽  
...  

This paper presents a new method of contact plasticity analysis based on Galerkin vectors to solve the eigenstresses due to eigenstrain. The influence coefficients relating eigenstrains to eigenstresses thus can be divided into four terms the one due to the eigenstrains in the full space, others due to the mirrored eigenstrains in the mirror half space. Each term can be solved fast and efficient by using the three-dimensional discrete convolution and fast Fourier transform (DC-FFT) or the three-dimensional discrete correlation and fast Fourier transform (DCR-FFT). The new method is used to analyze the contact plastic residual stresses in half space.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin G. C. Maack ◽  
David H. Rogers ◽  
Hans Hagen ◽  
Christina Gillmann

Exa-scale simulations can be hard to analyze because it is nearly impossible to store all computed time-steps and other parameters. The Cinema Database provides a storage-saving solution, that captures images of each simulation time-step from a variety of camera angles. Still, the resulting number of images can be overwhelming and it is hard to find interesting images and features for further analysis. We present a zoom based approach where users can utilize arbitrary image measures to explore interesting images and further analyze their behaviour in detail. We showed the effectiveness of our approach by providing two real world Cinema datasets.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 2212-2221
Author(s):  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Jiangchao Qin ◽  
Di Shi ◽  
Zhiwei Wang

Author(s):  
Qiong Jin ◽  
Lu-Bin Hang ◽  
Ting-Li Yang

Abstract A new method for analyzing overconstrained mechanisms is presented in this paper according to the kinematic compatibility criterion of single-opened-chains (SOCs). This criterion states that: if for any value of an active input, two SOCs have die same distances and angles between two ending axes of each SOC, and the difference of axis-lengths corresponding to each hand-side for two SOCs is kept constant, then the two SOCs can be combined together as one closure loop which is an overconstrained mechanism. This method is simple with four clear targets. It is quite different from other methods because the input-output relationships of variables can be obtained during overconstraint analysis. In order to find overconstrained mechanisms, we can begin with parts of compatibility conditions to obtain some kinematic relationships, so that the input-output law and the overconstraint conditions satisfying all compatibility relationships could be given. As examples, the 4R overconstrained mechanisms and a 4R2P overconstrained mechanism are proved using this method.


Geophysics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. S65-S77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hu Jin ◽  
George A. McMechan ◽  
Bao Nguyen

We have developed a new method of extracting angle-domain common-image gathers (ADCIGs) from prestack reverse time migration (RTM) that has minimal intermediate storage requirements. To include multipathing, we applied an imaging condition for prestack RTM that uses multiple excitation image times. Instead of saving the full-source snapshots at all time steps, we picked and saved only a few of the highest amplitude arrivals, and their corresponding excitation times, of the source wavefield at each grid point, and we crosscorrelated with the receiver wavefield. When extracting the ADCIGs from RTM, we calculated the source propagation direction from the gradient of the excitation times. The result was that the source time snapshots do not have to be saved or reconstructed during RTM or while extracting ADCIGs. We calculated the receiver propagation direction from Poynting vectors during the receiver extrapolation at each time step and the reflector normal direction by the phase-gradient method. With a new strategy that uses three direction vectors (the source and receiver propagation directions as well as the reflector normal direction), we provided more reliable ADCIGs that are free of low-wavenumber artifacts than any two of them do separately, when the migration velocity model was near to the correct velocity model. The 2D and 3D synthetic tests demonstrated the successful application of the new algorithms with acceptable accuracy, improved storage efficiency, and without an input/output bottleneck.


Author(s):  
Jianxun Liang ◽  
Ou Ma ◽  
Caishan Liu

Finite element methods are widely used for simulations of contact dynamics of flexible multibody systems. Such a simulation is computationally very inefficient because the system’s dimension is usually very large and the simulation time step has to be very small in order to ensure numerical stability. A potential solution to the problem is to apply a model reduction method in the simulation. Although many model reduction techniques have been developed, most of them cannot be readily applied due to the high nonlinearity of the involved contact dynamics model. This paper presents a solution to the problem. The approach is based on a modified Lyapunov balanced truncation method. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate that, by applying the proposed model reduction method, the simulation process can be significantly speeded up while the resulting error caused by the model reduction is still within an acceptable level.


2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Wiens

Abstract This paper presents a new method of simulating the dynamic flow and pressure of laminar liquid flow through pipes of arbitrarily changing cross section. This method uses a segmented model based on the previously presented tapered transmission line model (TLM). This new method is computationally efficient and has comparable accuracy to previous methods such as the method of characteristics (MOC), but allow for more flexibility in solution time-step (such as accommodating variable time-step solvers), which is required if the rest of the system model has stiff equations. For the sample geometry presented, the new model calculates the dynamic response an order of magnitude faster than the previous method of characteristics solution, with minimal loss of accuracy.


Author(s):  
Qiong Jin ◽  
Lu-Bin Hang ◽  
Ming Zhang

Abstract A new method on determining the existence conditions of overconstrained mechanisms is presented in this paper, which is used for studying the spatial single loop generally possessing one configure. This method is very effective to distinguish finite and infinite solutions of displacement analysis, and can analytically deduce the input-output equations. It is elucidated that the existence conditions of overconstrained mechanism consist of the overconstrained conditions and the closure conditions, and that the independence of the closure conditions should be further discussed. On the other hand, the existence conditions of two known 5-link overconstrainded mechanisms are verified and corrected. This method also provides a theoretical basis for finding new oveconstrained mechanisms.


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