Integrating post-Newtonian equations on graphics processing units

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/3/032001MaRDI QIDQ5305341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Frank Herrmann, John Silberholz, Matías Bellone, Gustavo Guerberoff, Manuel Tiglio

Publication date 22 March 2010

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3889

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We report on early results of a numerical and statistical study of binary black hole inspirals. The two black holes are evolved using post-Newtonian approximations starting with initially randomly distributed spin vectors. We characterize certain aspects of the distribution shortly before merger. In particular we note the uniform distribution of black hole spin vector dot products shortly before merger and a high correlation between the initial and final black hole spin vector dot products in the equal-mass, maximally spinning case. These simulations were performed on Graphics Processing Units, and we demonstrate a speed-up of a factor 50 over a more conventional CPU implementation.

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