The 2006 Cambridge N-body School introduced participants to educational websites for N-body simulations, www.Sverre.com and www.NBodyLab.org. These websites run versions of the freely available, open-source NBODY4, TRIPLE and CHAIN codes (Aarseth 2003) that have been adapted for the web. The websites provide guidance and documentation. They support simulations of small N (3 and 4 bodies) on both sites and higher N (up to 15,000) on NBodyLab.org. Numerical results, graphics and animations are displayed. NBodyLab.org supports NBODY4, running on a GRAPE-6A hardware accelerator, and demonstrates its accuracy and speed.
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Cancelliere, F., Johnson, V., Aarseth, S. (2008). Educational N - Body Websites. In: Aarseth, S.J., Tout, C.A., Mardling, R.A. (eds) The Cambridge N-Body Lectures. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 760. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8431-7_16
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