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The Friends-of-Friends (FoF) algorithm is a standard technique used in cosmological N-body simulations to identify structures. Its goal is to find clusters of particles (called groups) that are separated by at most a cut-off radius. N-body simulations typically use most of the memory present on a node, leaving very little free for a FoF algorithm to run on-the-fly. We propose a new method that utilises the common Union-Find data structure and a hybrid MPI+threads approach. The algorithm can also be expressed elegantly in a task-based formalism if such a framework is used in the rest of the application. We have implemented our algorithm in the open-source cosmological code, SWIFT. Our implementation displays excellent strong- and weak-scaling behaviour on realistic problems and compares favourably (speed-up of 18x) over other methods commonly used in the N-body community.
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