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We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

Future computing systems, from handhelds to supercomputers, will undoubtedly be more parallel and heterogeneous than todays systems to provide more performance and energy efficiency. Thus, GPUs are increasingly being used to accelerate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Saeed Taheri , Apan Qasem , Martin Burtscher

Massively multicore processors, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), provide, at a comparable price, a one order of magnitude higher peak performance than traditional CPUs. This drop in the cost of computation, as any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Samer Al-Kiswany , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

The Cox proportional hazards model stands as a widely-used semi-parametric approach for survival analysis in medical research and many other fields. Numerous extensions of the Cox model have further expanded its versatility. Statistical…

Computation · Statistics 2023-10-26 Jianxiao Yang , Martijn J. Schuemie , Marc A. Suchard

The complex structure of interplanetary magnetic fields and their variability, due to solar activity, make it necessary to compute the Cosmic Ray (CR) modulation with numerical simulations. COde for a Speedy Monte Carlo (MC) Involving Cuda…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Giovanni Cavallotto , Stefano Della Torre , Giuseppe La Vacca , Massimo Gervasi

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

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for many routine clinical applications. In this paper, we present our…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xun Jia , Xuejun Gu , Yan Jiang Graves , Michael Folkerts , Steve B. Jiang

This paper introduces novel method of simulation of lipid biomembranes based on Metropolis Hastings algorithm and Graphic Processing Unit computational power. Method gives up to 55 times computational boost in comparison to classical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-18 M. Lis , L. Pintal

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique commonly used in multivariate data analysis. However, PCA can be difficult to interpret and explain since the principal components (PCs) are linear combinations of the original…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-12-24 W. Liu , H. Zhang , D. Tao , Y. Wang , K. Lu

Real-time large-scale crowd simulations with realistic behavior, are important for many application areas. On CPUs, the ORCA pedestrian steering model is often used for agent-based pedestrian simulations. This paper introduces a technique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-28 John Charlton , Luis Rene Montana Gonzalez , Steve Maddock , Paul Richmond

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

Over the past five years, graphics processing units (GPUs) have had a transformational effect on numerical lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) calculations in nuclear and particle physics. While GPUs have been applied with great success…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-15 R. Babich , M. A. Clark , B. Joó , G. Shi , R. C. Brower , S. Gottlieb

Particle tracking simulations with space charge effects are very important for high-intensity proton rings. Since they include not only Hamilton mechanics of a single particle but constructing charge densities and solving Poisson equations…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Yoshinori Kurimoto

We present here a set of examples, classes and tools which can be used for statistical analysis in Graphics Processing Units (GPU). This includes binned and unbinned maximum likelihood fits, pseudo-experiment generation, convolutions,…

Nowadays, high performance computing is becoming more and more important in different fields research and industry, such as medical imaging and diagnostics, mathematics as well as oil exploration. It refers to intensive computing in some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Mouadh Ayachi

We develop a novel parallel resampling algorithm for fully parallelized particle filters, which is designed with GPUs (graphics processing units) or similar parallel computing devices in mind. With our new algorithm, a full cycle of…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-17 Kenichiro McAlinn , Teruo Nakatsuma

Process mapping asks to assign vertices of a task graph to processing elements of a supercomputer such that the computational workload is balanced while the communication cost is minimized. Motivated by the recent success of GPU-based graph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Petr Samoldekin , Christian Schulz , Henning Woydt

The standard kinetic Monte Carlo algorithm is an extremely efficient method to carry out serial simulations of dynamical processes such as thin-film growth. However, in some cases it is necessary to study systems over extended time and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunsic Shim , Jacques G. Amar

Quasi-Monte Carlo methods have become the industry standard in computer graphics. For that purpose, efficient algorithms for low discrepancy sequences are discussed. In addition, numerical pitfalls encountered in practice are revealed. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Alexander Keller , Carsten Wächter , Nikolaus Binder

As fusion energy devices advance, plasma simulations are crucial for reactor design. Our work extends BIT1 hybrid parallelization by integrating MPI with OpenMP and OpenACC, focusing on asynchronous multi-GPU programming. Results show…