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Title: | A well-separated pairs decomposition algorithm for k-d trees implemented on multi-core architectures |
Authors: | Lopes, RHC Reid, ID Hobson, PR |
Keywords: | K-ary trees;LHC experiments;Particle beam physics;Molecular dynamics in biochemistry;Algorithm |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Citation: | 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2013), Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 513(5): 052011 , (2014) |
Abstract: | Variations of k-d trees represent a fundamental data structure used in Computational Geometry with numerous applications in science. For example particle track tting in the software of the LHC experiments, and in simulations of N-body systems in the study of dynamics of interacting galaxies, particle beam physics, and molecular dynamics in biochemistry. The many-body tree methods devised by Barnes and Hutt in the 1980s and the Fast Multipole Method introduced in 1987 by Greengard and Rokhlin use variants of k-d trees to reduce the computation time upper bounds to O(n log n) and even O(n) from O(n2). We present an algorithm that uses the principle of well-separated pairs decomposition to always produce compressed trees in O(n log n) work. We present and evaluate parallel implementations for the algorithm that can take advantage of multi-core architectures. |
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URI: | http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/513/5/052011/ http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9936 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/513/5/052011 |
ISSN: | 1742-6588 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Research Papers |
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