Linked by Dmitry Abrosimov on Mon 14th Apr 2003 22:28 UTC
The paper considers a mathematical model of the behavior of an assembly of N stars. The 'Kepler' Microsoft Windows demo application based of this model enables to perform real-time simulation of star clusters dynamics for N~=2500. Such performance rate is possible through the use of the Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) library. The paper also estimates the efficiency of the IPP application and provides an example of C-code with the IPP functions calls. Computer-simulated images of the spiral galaxy forming process, as well as the real galaxies photos, are presented.
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Hi
Nice article - makes a refreshing change! Two questions though...
I can see how the IPP may be useful for multimedia stuff but how much difference does it make for the array operations, over and above using either BLAS/LAPACK or Fortran 90 functions?