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Maximilian Zimmermann1, Elke Pilat-Lohinger1
1Department of Astrophysics, University of Vienna, Türkenschanzstraße 17, Vienna, 1180 Austria.
Abstract:
We present a GPU accelerated N-body integrator using the Bulirsch-Stoer method, called GANBISS (GPU accelerated n-body code for binary star systems). It is designed to simulate the dynamical evolution of planetesimal disks in binary star systems which contain some thousand disk objects. However, it can also be used for studies of non-interacting massless bodies where up to 50 million objects can be studied in a simulation. GANBISS shows the energy and angular momentum conservation behavior of non-symplectic integration methods. The code is written in CUDA C and can be run on NVIDIA GPUs of compute capability of at least 3.5. A comparison of GPU and CPU computations indicates a speed-up of the GPU performance of up to 100 times-depending on the number of disk objects.
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