We are developing a full 3D dynamical and collisional cascade code based on Nvidia's GPU architecture and CUDA language. The code utilizes the immense speed increases possible with GPU acceleration in modern high-performace computing and our existing collisional cascade algorithm. The code will allow us to tackle some of the most interesting questions in planetary system evolution, such as the levels of exozodiacal dust present in systems as a function of the planetary system architecture or the signature evolution of stochastic events.

Although the code will be available for download and will work on personal computers with CUDA capable Nvidia cards^*, we will use the El Gato GPU supercluster (http://elgato.arizona.edu) at The University of Arizona and our new Merope, equipped with two Nvidia GeForce 780 GPUs and two Nvidia Titan Black GPUs (donated to our project by Nvidia), to run our simulations.