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Convolutional gridding is a processor-intensive step in interferometric imaging. While it is possible to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate this operation, existing methods use only a fraction of the available flops. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Bruce Merry

We present an algorithm specifically tailored for solving kinetic equations onto GPUs. The efficiency of the algorithm is demonstrated by solving the one-dimensional shock wave structure problem and a two-dimensional low Mach number driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Aldo Frezzotti , Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

Handling clustering problems are important in data statistics, pattern recognition and image processing. The mean-shift algorithm, a common unsupervised algorithms, is widely used to solve clustering problems. However, the mean-shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Le You , Han Jiang , Jinyong Hu , Chorng Chang , Lingxi Chen , Xintong Cui , Mengyang Zhao

Over the last couple of years it has been realized that the vast computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) could be harvested for purposes other than the video game industry. This power, which at least nominally exceeds that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 Martin Weigel

We discuss the performance of direct summation codes used in the simulation of astrophysical stellar systems on highly distributed architectures. These codes compute the gravitational interaction among stars in an exact way and have an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessia Gualandris , Simon Portegies Zwart , Alfredo Tirado-Ramos

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are important tools in life and material sciences since they allow studying chemical and biological processes in detail. However, the inherent scalability problem of particle-particle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Michael Schaffner , Luca Benini

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

In this paper, we present a computationally efficient trajectory optimizer that can exploit GPUs to jointly compute trajectories of tens of agents in under a second. At the heart of our optimizer is a novel reformulation of the non-convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Fatemeh Rastgar , Houman Masnavi , Jatan Shrestha , Karl Kruusamae , Alvo Aabloo , Arun Kumar Singh

Simulation speed depends on code structures, hence it is crucial how to build a fast algorithm. We solve the Allen-Cahn equation by an explicit finite difference method, so it requires grid calculations implemented by many for-loops in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Yongho Kim , Yongho Choi

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

It is shown micromagnetic and atomistic spin dynamics simulations can use multiple GPUs in order to reduce computation time, but also to allow for a larger simulation size than is possible on a single GPU. Whilst interactions which depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-12 Serban Lepadatu

The Nvidia GPU architecture has introduced new computing elements such as the \textit{tensor cores}, which are special processing units dedicated to perform fast matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) operations and accelerate \textit{Deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Roberto Carrasco , Raimundo Vega , Cristóbal A. Navarro

We present Sapporo, a library for performing high-precision gravitational N-body simulations on NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Our library mimics the GRAPE-6 library, and N-body codes currently running on GRAPE-6 can switch to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Evghenii Gaburov , Stefan Harfst , Simon Portegies Zwart

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in robotics that involves generating feasible trajectories for a robot to follow. Recent advances in parallel computing, particularly through CPU and GPU architectures, have significantly reduced…

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This paper presents a fast implementation of the Graham scan on the GPU. The proposed algorithm is composed of two stages: (1) two rounds of preprocessing performed on the GPU and (2) the finalization of finding the convex hull on the CPU.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Gang Mei

Immersed boundary methods (IBMs) facilitate the simulation of flows around stationary, moving, and deforming bodies on Cartesian grids. However, extending these simulations to the large grid sizes required for realistic flow problems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

This paper presents a novel, high-performance, graphical processing unit-based algorithm for efficiently solving two-dimensional linear programs in batches. The domain of two-dimensional linear programs is particularly useful due to the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-14 John Charlton , Steve Maddock , Paul Richmond

We suggest that quantum computers can solve quantum many-body problems that are impracticable to solve on a classical computer.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Wiesner

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

A modern graphics processing unit (GPU) is able to perform massively parallel scientific computations at low cost. We extend our implementation of the checkerboard algorithm for the two dimensional Ising model [T. Preis et al., J. Comp.…

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