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Period estimation is an important task in the classification of many variable astrophysical objects. Here we present GRAPE: Genetic Routine for Astronomical Period Estimation, a genetic algorithm optimised for the processing of survey data…

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Numerical simulations of fluids in astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) are among the most computationally-demanding calculations, in terms of sustained floating-point operations per second, or FLOP/s. It is expected that…

Data movement between memory and processors is a major bottleneck in modern computing systems. The processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigm aims to alleviate this bottleneck by performing computation inside memory chips. Real PIM hardware (e.g.,…

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Virtualization technology allows currently any application run any application complex and expensive computational (the scientific applications are a good example) on heterogeneous distributed systems, which make regular use of Grid and…

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This paper presents an octree construction method, called Cornerstone, that facilitates global domain decomposition and interactions between particles in mesh-free numerical simulations. Our method is based on algorithms developed for 3D…

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Generation of optimal codes is a well known problem in coding theory. Many computational approaches exist in the literature for finding record breaking codes. However generating codes with long lengths $n$ using serial algorithms is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Srajan Paliwal , Saurabh Tiwary , Bhaskar Chaudhury , Manish K. Gupta

The implicit 2D3V particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to study the interaction of ultrashort pulse lasers with matter [G. M. Petrov and J. Davis, Computer Phys. Comm. 179, 868 (2008); Phys. Plasmas 18, 073102 (2011)] has been parallelized…

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In this report we describe a parallel implementation of a Tree-SPH code realized using the SHMEM libraries in the Cray T3E supercomputer at CINECA. We show the result of a 3D test to check the code performances against its scalar version.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Cesario Lia , Giovanni Carraro , Cesare Chiosi , Marco Voli

The present paper studies two particle management strategies for dynamically adaptive Cartesian grids at hands of a particle-in-cell code. One holds the particles within the grid cells, the other within the grid vertices. The fundamental…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-01-11 T. Weinzierl , B. Verleye , P. Henri , D. Roose

Modern general-purpose accelerators integrate a large number of programmable area- and energy-efficient processing elements (PEs), to deliver high performance while meeting stringent power delivery and thermal dissipation constraints. In…

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We perform simulations of giant impacts onto the young Uranus using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with over 100 million particles. This 100--1000$\times$ improvement in particle number reveals that simulations with below 10^7…

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Processing large-scale graph datasets is computationally intensive and time-consuming. Processor-centric CPU and GPU architectures, commonly used for graph applications, often face bottlenecks caused by extensive data movement between the…

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In this contribution a broad overview of the methodologies of cosmological N-body simulations and a short introduction explaining the general idea behind such simulations is presented. After explaining how to set up the initial conditions…

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In this paper we describe the current status of the GRAPE-6 project to develop a special-purpose computer with a peak speed exceeding 100 Tflops for the simulation of astrophysical N-body problems. One of the main targets of the GRAPE-6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junichiro Makino

Modern GPUs are able to perform significantly more arithmetic operations than transfers of a single word to or from global memory. Hence, many GPU kernels are limited by memory bandwidth and cannot exploit the arithmetic power of GPUs.…

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Neighborhood algorithms may take a considerable percentage of computer time in discrete element methods (DEM). While the sort-and-sweep algorithm is ideal in some ways, as it only deal with particles whose relative positions change in one…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Dominik Krengel , Yuki Watanabe , Ko Kandori , Jian Chen , Hans-Georg Matuttis

The current contribution develops a Variational Physics-Informed Neural Network (VPINN)-based framework for the analysis and design of multiphase architected solids. The elaborated VPINN methodology is based on the Petrov-Galerkin approach,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Dimitrios C. Rodopoulos , Panos Pantidis , Nikolaos Karathanasopoulos

The Binary Space Partitioning-Tree~(BSP-Tree) process was recently proposed as an efficient strategy for space partitioning tasks. Because it uses more than one dimension to partition the space, the BSP-Tree Process is more efficient and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-03 Xuhui Fan , Bin Li , Scott A. Sisson

Efficient spatial indexing is crucial for processing large-scale spatial data. Traditional spatial indexes, such as STR-Tree and Quad-Tree, organize spatial objects based on coarse approximations, such as their minimum bounding rectangles…

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Currently, the potential of microsimulation in space time trellis code has not been thoroughly ascertained. Therefore, this letter explores the possibility of using microsimulation in performing a pairwise comparison between competing…

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