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The study of biological systems witnessed a pervasive cross-fertilization between experimental investigation and computational methods. This gave rise to the development of new methodologies, able to tackle the complexity of biological…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Daniela Besozzi , Giulio Caravagna , Paolo Cazzaniga , Marco Nobile , Dario Pescini , Alessandro Re

Computing on graphics processors is maybe one of the most important developments in computational science to happen in decades. Not since the arrival of the Beowulf cluster, which combined open source software with commodity hardware to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , Simon K. Layton , Lorena A. Barba

We compare the performance of two very different parallel gravitational $N$-body codes for astrophysical simulations on large GPU clusters, both pioneer in their own fields as well as in certain mutual scales - NBODY6++ and Bonsai. We carry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Siyi Huang , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik

This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Víctor Ramos-Osuna , Alberto Díaz-Álvarez , Raúl Lara-Cabrera

A micromagnetic simulator running on graphics processing unit (GPU) is presented. It achieves significant performance boost as compared to previous central processing unit (CPU) simulators, up to two orders of magnitude for large input…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Ru Zhu

In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GraCCA system, a Graphic-Card Cluster for Astrophysics simulations. It consists of 16 nodes, with each node equipped with 2 modern graphic cards, the NVIDIA GeForce 8800…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hsi-Yu Schive , Chia-Hung Chien , Shing-Kwong Wong , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) support dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) in order to balance computational performance and energy consumption. However, there still lacks simple and accurate performance estimation of a given GPU…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

(Abridged) We have developed a numerical software library for collisionless N-body simulations named "Phantom-GRAPE" which highly accelerates force calculations among particles by use of a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Keigo Nitadori , Takashi Okamoto

A finite-difference Micromagnetic simulation code written in MATLAB is presented with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. The high performance of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is demonstrated compared to a typical Central…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Ru Zhu

Graphics Processing Unit, or GPUs, have been successfully adopted both for graphic computation in 3D applications, and for general purpose application (GP-GPUs), thank to their tremendous performance-per-watt. Recently, there is a big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Paolo Burgio

Evolutionary computing (EC) has proven to be effective in solving complex optimization and robotics problems. Unfortunately, typical Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are constrained by the computational capacity available to researchers. More…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Rustam Eynaliyev , Houcen Liu

Graphics processing units have been extensively used to accelerate classical molecular dynamics simulations. However, there is much less progress on the acceleration of force evaluations for many-body potentials compared to pairwise ones.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Zheyong Fan , Wei Chen , Ville Vierimaa , Ari Harju

Simulations of standard 1D and 2D quantum walks have been performed within Quantum Computer Simulator (QCS system) environment and with the use of GPU supported by CUDA technology. In particular, simulations of quantum walks may be seen as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Marek Sawerwain , Roman Gielerak

We present a technique designed for parallelizing large rigid body simulations, capable of exploiting multiple CPU cores within a computer and across a network. Our approach can be applied to simulate both unilateral and bilateral…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Manas Kale , Paul G. Kry

One of application that needs high performance computing resources is molecular d ynamic. There is some software available that perform molecular dynamic, one of these is a well known GROMACS. Our previous experiment simulating molecular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-10-17 Heru Suhartanto , Arry Yanuar , Ari Wibisono

The paper presents the aspect of use of modern graphics accelerators supporting CUDA technology for high-performance computing in the field of linear algebra. Fully programmable graphic cards have been available for several years for both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Lukasz Swierczewski

We present performance measurements of direct gravitational N -body simulation on the grid, with and without specialized (GRAPE-6) hardware. Our inter-continental virtual organization consists of three sites, one in Tokyo, one in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Derek Groen , Simon Portegies Zwart , Steve McMillan , Jun Makino

Large n-body simulations with fully interacting objects represent the next frontier in computational planetary formation studies. In this paper, we present Mercury-Opal, the GPU-accelerated version of the n-body planet formation code…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Paolo Simonetti , Diego Turrini , Romolo Politi , Scigé J. Liu , Sergio Fonte , Danae Polychroni , Stavro Lambrov Ivanovski

Molecular dynamics (MD) is an important research tool extensively applied in materials science. Running MD on a graphics processing unit (GPU) is an attractive new approach for accelerating MD simulations. Currently, GPU implementations of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Qing Hou , Min Li , Yulu Zhou , Jiechao Cui , Zhenguo Cui , Jun Wang

We discuss the application of graphical processing units (GPUs) to accelerate real-space density functional theory (DFT) calculations. To make our implementation efficient, we have developed a scheme to expose the data parallelism available…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Xavier Andrade , Alán Aspuru-Guzik