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Simulations of Galaxy Interactions on a Massively Parallel Computer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

A.H. Nelson
A.H. Nelson*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Wales College of Cardiff, Cardiff, CF1 3TH, UK

Abstract

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Computer simulations of the encounter of a satellite galaxy with a host galaxy are described. These are being carried out using tree-code gravity on an NCUBE parallel processor with 128 processors. The particles of the host - representing both stars and gas - are distributed over the processors, and the potential of the whole ensemble is calculated using a fast parallel communications algorithm to pass information between the processors, with the result that the amount of processing and communications scales as log N where N is the number of particles.

Type
X- Gas and Star Dynamics (Models and Simulations)
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 146: Dynamics of Galaxies and their Molecular Cloud Distributions , 1991 , pp. 353 - 355
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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