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Hanno Rein

1 year ago • •

Hanno Rein
1 year ago • •

This plot shows the time it takes to integrate the Solar System for 5 billion years. In 1950 it would have taken over a million years. Today it takes 1 day. The bottom right point is for our WHFast512 integrator which uses #AVX512 instructions: https://astro.theoj.org/article/84547-whfast512-a-symplectic-n-body-integrator-for-planetary-systems-optimized-with-avx512-instructions

Plot made with data from Sam Hadden: http://shadden.github.io/nbody_history/.

A plot showing the wall time required to integrate the solar system for 5 Gyr. The y scale is logarithmic and ranges from 1 day to over a million years. The x scale is linear from 1950 to 2023. Over time, N-body simulation become more efficient. The scaling is roughly exponential. Also shown is how the time for one CPU cycle dropped from 1 microsecond to under 1 nanosecond (Moore's law) between 1970 and 2000. Since 2000 CPU cycles do not get shorter anymore. The bottom right data point is for WHFast512 (Javaheri, Rein & Tamayo 2023) showing a wall time of only 1 day.

WHFast512: A symplectic N-body integrator for planetary systems optimized with AVX512 instructions | Published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics

By Pejvak Javaheri, Hanno Rein & 1 more. A fast direct N-body integrator for gravitational systems, demonstrated using a 40 Gyr integration of the Solar System.

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#Astrodon #hpc #avx512

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