Research Article

Parallel N-Body Simulation Based on the PM and P3M Methods Using Multigrid Schemes in conjunction with Generic Approximate Sparse Inverses

Table 1

The overall performance of the Particle Mesh simulation algorithm based on the GenAspI-MGV method for various numbers of particles, various numbers of cluster nodes (), various numbers of threads, and various resolutions (results in seconds.hundreds).

Performance
Threads

Number of bodies = 30.000.000

1176.6577.7588.88

2222.6824.0726.77
412.1412.2814.39
87.066.538.19

4211.0712.1014.27
46.106.147.81
83.313.404.79

825.705.858.05
43.063.134.56
81.721.733.05

Number of bodies = 40.000.000

11105.81104.31116.48

2232.8631.2335.73
416.7216.4820.05
88.838.9510.51

4215.8118.7318.36
48.248.559.98
84.384.416.09

827.857.979.88
44.284.165.64
82.372.253.60