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We present GridFF, an efficient method for simulating molecules on rigid substrates, derived from techniques used in protein-ligand docking in biochemistry. By projecting molecule-substrate interactions onto precomputed spatial grids with…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Indranil Mal , Milan Kočí , Paolo Nicolini , Prokop Hapala

Special high-accuracy direct force summation N-body algorithms and their relevance for the simulation of the dynamical evolution of star clusters and other gravitating N-body systems in astrophysics are presented, explained and compared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Spurzem

The vast amount of processing power and memory bandwidth provided by modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) make them a platform for data-intensive applications. The database community identified GPUs as effective co-processors for data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Bernd Amann , Youry Khmelevsky , Gaetan Hains

The most popular heterogeneous many-core platform, the CPU+GPU combination, has received relatively little attention in operating systems research. This platform is already widely deployed: GPUs can be found, in some form, in most desktop…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Weibin Sun , Robert Ricci

The vision of super computer at every desk can be realized by powerful and highly parallel CPUs or GPUs or APUs. Graphics processors once specialized for the graphics applications only, are now used for the highly computational intensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Chittampally Vasanth Raja , Srinivas Balasubramanian , Prakash S Raghavendra

Quantum computer simulators are crucial for the development of quantum computing. In this work, we investigate the suitability and performance impact of GPU and multi-GPU systems on a widely used simulation tool - the state vector simulator…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jennifer Faj , Ivy Peng , Jacob Wahlgren , Stefano Markidis

Granular materials are of critical interest to many robotic tasks in planetary science, construction, and manufacturing. However, the dynamics of granular materials are complex and often computationally very expensive to simulate. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-05 David Millard , Daniel Pastor , Joseph Bowkett , Paul Backes , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

We carry out a comparative performance study of multi-core CPUs, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi (Many Integrated Core - MIC) with a microscopy image analysis application. We experimentally evaluate the performance of computing devices on core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-15 George Teodoro , Tahsin Kurc , Guilherme Andrade , Jun Kong , Renato Ferreira , Joel Saltz

In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GRAPE-6 system, a massively-parallel special-purpose computer for astrophysical $N$-body simulations. GRAPE-6 is the successor of GRAPE-4, which was completed in 1995 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junichiro Makino , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Masaki Koga , Ken Namura

The progress made in accelerating simulations of fluid flow using GPUs, and the challenges that remain, are surveyed. The review first provides an introduction to GPU computing and programming, and discusses various considerations for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-04 Kyle E Niemeyer , Chih-Jen Sung

We investigate the performance gains from hyper-systolic implementations of n^2-loop problems on the massively parallel computer Quadrics, exploiting its 3-dimensional interprocessor connectivity. For illustration we study the communication…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-25 Th. Lippert , G. Ritzenhöfer , U. Glässner , H. Hoeber , A. Seyfried , K. Schilling

The main performance bottleneck of gravitational N-body codes is the force calculation between two particles. We have succeeded in speeding up this pair-wise force calculation by factors between two and ten, depending on the code and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keigo Nitadori , Junichiro Makino , Piet Hut

Approximately 18 percent of the 3.2 million smartphone applications rely on integrated graphics processing units (GPUs) to achieve competitive performance. Graphics performance, typically measured in frames per second, is a strong function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-14 Ujjwal Gupta , Manoj Babu , Raid Ayoub , Michael Kishinevsky , Francesco Paterna , Suat Gumussoy , Umit Ogras

We present a single-node, multi-GPU programmable graph processing library that allows programmers to easily extend single-GPU graph algorithms to achieve scalable performance on large graphs with billions of edges. Directly using the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yuechao Pan , Yangzihao Wang , Yuduo Wu , Carl Yang , John D. Owens

We present a highly parallel implementation of the cross-correlation of time-series data using graphics processing units (GPUs), which is scalable to hundreds of independent inputs and suitable for the processing of signals from "Large-N"…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 M. A. Clark , P. C. La Plante , L. J. Greenhill

The future of computation is the Graphical Processing Unit, i.e. the GPU. The promise that the graphics cards have shown in the field of image processing and accelerated rendering of 3D scenes, and the computational capability that these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-21 Jayshree Ghorpade , Jitendra Parande , Madhura Kulkarni , Amit Bawaskar

In this work we present an efficient implementation of Canonical Monte Carlo simulation for Coulomb many body systems on graphics processing units (GPU). Our method takes advantage of the GPU Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 Yihao Liang , Xiangjun Xing , Yaohang Li

N-body simulations are essential tools in physical cosmology to understand the large-scale structure (LSS) formation of the Universe. Large-scale simulations with high resolution are important for exploring the substructure of universe and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Shenggan Cheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Derek Inman , Qiucheng Liao , Qiaoya Wu , James Lin

We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

The gravitational N-body simulation in the Solar system was performed using different parallel approaches with the comparisons in the computational times and speed-up values being carried out under different model sizes and the number of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-03 Tailin Zhu