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Foil 29 Summary of Parallel N-Body Programming Methods and Algorithms

From Fox Presentation Fall 1995 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 1998 Enhancements. by Geoffrey C. Fox
3 Parallel Programming Paradigms
  • Message Parallel (MIMD)
  • Data Parallel (HPF on MIMD and historically CMFortran on SIMD CM-2)
  • Shared Memory Parallel Fortran especially on distributed shared memory architectures such as Origin 2000
2 Important and very different Algorithms
  • Natural O(N2) which is slowest but needed in cases where objects are often very close as in dynamics of globular clusters mentioned on previous foil
  • Fast Multipole methods O(N) or O(N logN) which are getting increasing use

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