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[ascl:1103.010] Hydra: A Parallel Adaptive Grid Code

We describe the first parallel implementation of an adaptive particle-particle, particle-mesh code with smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Parallelisation of the serial code, "Hydra," is achieved by using CRAFT, a Cray proprietary language which allows rapid implementation of a serial code on a parallel machine by allowing global addressing of distributed memory.

The collisionless variant of the code has already completed several 16.8 million particle cosmological simulations on a 128 processor Cray T3D whilst the full hydrodynamic code has completed several 4.2 million particle combined gas and dark matter runs. The efficiency of the code now allows parameter-space explorations to be performed routinely using $64^3$ particles of each species. A complete run including gas cooling, from high redshift to the present epoch requires approximately 10 hours on 64 processors.

Code site:
https://hydra.mcmaster.ca/
Described in:
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997NewA....2..411P https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1996astro.ph..3116C https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995ApJ...452..797C
Bibcode:
2011ascl.soft03010C

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