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An efficient parallel tree-code for the simulation of self-gravitating systems
We describe a parallel version of our tree-code for the simulation of
self-gravitating systems in Astrophysics. It is based on a dynamic and adaptive
method for the domain decomposition, which exploits the hierarchical data
arrangement used by the tree-code. It shows low computational costs for the
parallelization overhead -- less than 4% of the total CPU-time in the tests
done -- because the domain decomposition is performed 'on the fly' during the
tree setting and the portion of the tree that is local to each processor
'enriches' itself of remote data only when they are actually needed.
The performances of an implementation of the parallel code on a Cray T3E are
presented and discussed. They exhibit a very good behaviour of the speedup (=15
with 16 processors and 10^5 particles) and a rather low load unbalancing (< 10%
using up to 16 processors), achieving a high computation speed in the forces
evaluation (>10^4 particles/sec with 8 processors).Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, LaTeX2e, A&A class file needed (included),
submitted to A&A; corrected abstract word wrappin
Parallelization of a Code for the Simulation of Self-gravitating Systems in Astrophysics. Preliminary Speed-up Results
We have preliminary results on the parallelization of a Tree-Code for
evaluating gravitational forces in N-body astrophysical systems. For our Cray
T3D/CRAFT implementation, we have obtained an encouraging speed-up behavior,
which reaches a value of 37 with 64 processor elements (PEs). According to the
Amdahl'law, this means that about 99% of the code is actually parallelized. The
speed-up tests regarded the evaluation of the forces among N = 130,369
particles distributed scaling the actual distribution of a sample of galaxies
seen in the Northern sky hemisphere. Parallelization of the time integration of
the trajectories, which has not yet been taken into account, is both easier to
implement and not as fundamental.Comment: 14 pages LaTeX + 1 EPS figure + 2 EPS colour figures, epsf.sty and
aasms4.sty included; to be published in Science & Supercomputing at CINECA,
Report 1997 (Bologna, Italy
Food and locality. Heritagization and commercial use of past
This paper reconstructs the birth and first development of food narratives build around the relationship between food and territory. These developed firstly in France between the 18th and 19th century becoming common throughout Europe since the early 20th century. Focussing on the Italian case within the European context, the paper highlights three main points: the ethnocentric character of the classification of regional cuisines during Fascism; the role of marketing in \u201cinventing\u201d territorial food identities; and the \u201cnostalgic turn\u201d in the commercial promotion of \u201cgenuine\u201d foods. In its final remarks the paper asks for a deconstruction of any essentialisation of the food/territory relationship
Merging of globular clusters within inner galactic regions. II. The Nuclear Star Cluster formation
In this paper we present the results of two detailed N-body simulations of
the interaction of a sample of four massive globular clusters in the inner
region of a triaxial galaxy. A full merging of the clusters takes place,
leading to a slowly evolving cluster which is quite similar to observed Nuclear
Clusters. Actually, both the density and the velocity dispersion profiles match
qualitatively, and quantitatively after scaling, with observed features of many
nucleated galaxies. In the case of dense initial clusters, the merger remnant
shows a density profile more concentrated than that of the progenitors, with a
central density higher than the sum of the central progenitors central
densities. These findings support the idea that a massive Nuclear Cluster may
have formed in early phases of the mother galaxy evolution and lead to the
formation of a nucleus, which, in many galaxies, has indeed a luminosity
profile similar to that of an extended King model. A correlation with galactic
nuclear activity is suggested.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to ApJ, main journa
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