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Recent advances in random-walk particle-tracking have enabled direct simulation of mixing and reactions on particles by allowing the particles to interact with each other using a multi-point mass transfer scheme. The mass transfer scheme…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-22 Nicholas B. Engdahl , Michael J. Schmidt , David A. Benson

This article introduces a highly parallel algorithm for molecular dynamics simulations with short-range forces on single node multi- and many-core systems. The algorithm is designed to achieve high parallel speedups for strongly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 R. Meyer

The optimal allocation of replicas to a homogeneous or heterogenous set of processors is derived for parallel tempering simulations on multi-processor machines. In the general case, it is possible without substantially increasing wall clock…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David J. Earl , Michael W. Deem

The replica exchange method is a powerful tool for overcoming slow relaxation in molecular simulations, but its efficiency depends strongly on the choice of the number and interval of replicas and their exchange probabilities. Here, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-04 Akie Kowaguchi , Katsuhiro Endo , Kentaro Nomura , Shuichi Kurabayashi , Paul E. Brumby , Kenji Yasuoka

Parallel tempering (PT), also known as replica exchange, is the go-to workhorse for simulations of multi-modal distributions. The key to the success of PT is to adopt efficient swap schemes. The popular deterministic even-odd (DEO) scheme…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Wei Deng , Qian Zhang , Qi Feng , Faming Liang , Guang Lin

Inference algorithms based on evolving interactions between replicated solutions are introduced and analyzed on a prototypical NP-hard problem - the capacity of the binary Ising perceptron. The efficiency of the algorithm is examined…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto C. Alamino , Juan P. Neirotti , David Saad

Parallel tempering, or replica exchange, is a popular method for simulating complex systems. The idea is to run parallel simulations at different temperatures, and at a given swap rate exchange configurations between the parallel…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-20 J. D. Doll , Paul Dupuis , Pierre Nyquist

It was recently demonstrated that a simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm involving the swap of particle pairs dramatically accelerates the equilibrium sampling of simulated supercooled liquids. We propose two numerical schemes integrating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Ludovic Berthier , Elijah Flenner , Christopher J. Fullerton , Camille Scalliet , Murari Singh

In the quest for highest performance in scientific computing, we present a novel framework that relies on high-bandwidth communication between GPUs in a compute cluster. The framework offers linear scaling of performance for explicit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Martin Rose , Simon Homes , Lukas Ramsperger , Jose Gracia , Christoph Niethammer , Jadran Vrabec

Parameterized artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be very expressive ansatzes for variational algorithms, reaching state-of-the-art energies on many quantum many-body Hamiltonians. Nevertheless, the training of the ANN can be slow and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-04 Conor Smith , Quinn T. Campbell , Tameem Albash

OpenMP parallelization of multiple precision Taylor series method is proposed. A very good parallel performance scalability and parallel efficiency inside one computation node of a CPU-cluster is observed. We explain the details of the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-08-27 S. Dimova , I. Hristov , R. Hristova , I. Puzynin , T. Puzynina , Z. Sharipov , N. Shegunov , Z. Tukhliev

Agent-based modelling constitutes a versatile approach to representing and simulating complex systems. Studying large-scale systems is challenging because of the computational time required for the simulation runs: scaling is at least…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Alexandru-Ionuţ Băbeanu , Tatiana Filatova , Jan H. Kwakkel , Neil Yorke-Smith

The objective of this research is to construct parallel implementations of the Jacobi algorithm used for the solution of linear algebraic systems, to measure their speedup with respect to the serial case and to compare each other, regarding…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Athanasios Margaris , Stauros Souravlas , Manos Roumeliotis

New sampling algorithms based on simulating continuous-time stochastic processes called piece-wise deterministic Markov processes (PDMPs) have shown considerable promise. However, these methods can struggle to sample from multi-modal or…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-31 Matthew Sutton , Robert Salomone , Augustin Chevallier , Paul Fearnhead

Stochastic, spatial reaction-diffusion simulations have been widely used in systems biology and computational neuroscience. However, the increasing scale and complexity of simulated models and morphologies have exceeded the capacity of any…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-10-10 Weiliang Chen , Erik De Schutter

In this article we present a parallel algorithm for simulation of the heat conduction process inside the so-called pulse cryogenic cell. This simulation is important for designing the device for portion injection of working gases into…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-10 A. Ayriyan , J. Buša

We investigate a generic, parallel replica-exchange framework for Monte Carlo simulations based on the Wang-Landau method. To demonstrate its advantages and general applicability for massively parallel simulations of complex systems, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Thomas Vogel , Ying Wai Li , Thomas Wüst , David P. Landau

We propose an asynchronous iterative scheme that allows a set of interconnected nodes to distributively reach an agreement within a pre-specified bound in a finite number of steps. While this scheme could be adopted in a wide variety of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Andreas Grammenos , Themistoklis Charalambous , Evangelia Kalyvianaki

Modern problems in astronomical Bayesian inference require efficient methods for sampling from complex, high-dimensional, often multi-modal probability distributions. Most popular methods, such as Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, perform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Will Vousden , Will M. Farr , Ilya Mandel

We seek to enable classic processing of continuous ultra-sparse spatiotemporal data generated by event-based sensors with dense machine learning models. We propose a novel hybrid pipeline composed of asynchronous sensing and synchronous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Carmen Martin-Turrero , Maxence Bouvier , Manuel Breitenstein , Pietro Zanuttigh , Vincent Parret