Direct N-body Kernels for Multicore Platforms

—We present an inter-architectural comparison of single- and double-precision direct n-body implementations on modern multicore platforms, including those based on the Intel Nehalem and AMD Barcelona systems, the Sony-Toshiba-IBM PowerXCell/8i processor, and NVIDA Tesla C870 and C1060 GPU systems. We compare our implementations across platforms on a variety of proxy measures, including performance, coding complexity, and energy efficiency.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICPP
• Authors: Nitin Arora, Aashay Shringarpure, Richard W. Vuduc
• Keywords: Direct N-body Implementations, Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICPP 2009, Modern Multicore Platforms, Sony-Toshiba-IBM PowerXCell/8i Processor