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Beowulf Analysis Symbolic INterface BASIN: Interactive Parallel Data Analysis for Everyone
Enrico Vesperini, David M. Goldberg, Stephen L. W. McMillan +2
The advent of affordable parallel computers such as Beowulf PC clusters and, more recently, of multi-core PCs has been highly beneficial for a large number of scientists and smalle…
Distributed N-body Simulation on the Grid Using Dedicated Hardware
Derek Groen, Simon Portegies Zwart, Steve McMillan +1
We present performance measurements of direct gravitational N -body simulation on the grid, with and without specialized (GRAPE-6) hardware. Our inter-continental virtual organizat…
Stellar Collisions and Black Hole Formation in Dense Star Clusters
Stephen McMillan, Simon Portegies Zwart
Close encounters and physical collisions between stars in young dense clusters may lead to the formation of very massive stars and black holes via runaway merging. We examine criti…
Simulating young star clusters with primordial binaries
Simon Portegies Zwart, Steve McMillan
We simulate a cluster of 144179 stars including 13107 primordial hard binaries (10% of the total number of single stars and binary centers of mass), using direct integration of the…
Life and Death of Young Dense Star Clusters near the Galactic Center
Simon Portegies Zwart, Stephen McMillan, Holger Baumgardt
We discuss the structural change and degree of mass segregation of young dense star clusters within about 100pc of the Galactic center. In our calculations, which are performed wit…
Star Cluster Simulations Including Stellar Evolution
Stephen L. W. McMillan
The past few years have seen dramatic improvements in the scope and realism of star cluster simulations. Accurate treatments of stellar evolution, coupled with robust descriptions…