Title
A Massively Parallel Barnes-Hut Tree Code With Dual Tree Traversal
Abstract
Hierarchical methods like the Barnes-Hut (BH) tree code and the Fast Multipole Method (FMM) are important tools to decrease the algorithmic complexity of solving the N-body problem. We report on recent efforts to achieve massive scalability on IBM Blue Gene/Q and other highly concurrent supercomputers with our BH tree code PEPC by replacing a thread synchronization strategy based on traditional lock data structures with atomic operations. We also describe the integration of the Dual Tree Traversal a more recent algorithm that combines advantages of both BH tree code and FMM into PEPC. We explain how the scalability of this algorithm is influenced by the existing communication scheme and we propose a modification to achieve better distributed memory scalability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.3233/978-1-61499-621-7-439
PARALLEL COMPUTING: ON THE ROAD TO EXASCALE
Keywords
Field
DocType
N-body problem, hierarchical methods, hybrid parallelism
Tree traversal,Massively parallel,Computer science,Tree (data structure),Parallel computing,Threaded binary tree,Red–black tree,Trie,Fractal tree index,Cartesian tree
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
27
0927-5452
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Benedikt Steinbusch100.34
Marvin-Lucas Henkel200.34
Mathias Winkel3232.12
Paul Gibbon412922.68