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When calculating the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies in radiation-transfer models, the calculation of dust grain temperatures is generally the most time-consuming part of the calculation. Because of its highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrik Jonsson , Joel Primack

We accelerated an ab-initio molecular QMC calculation by using GPGPU. Only the bottle-neck part of the calculation is replaced by CUDA subroutine and performed on GPU. The performance on a (single core CPU + GPU) is compared with that on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 Yutaka Uejima , Tomoharu Terashima , Ryo Maezono

Due to the increasing complexity of radiotherapy delivery, accurate dose verification has become an essential part of the clinical treatment process. The purpose of this work was to develop an electronic portal image (EPI) based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Reid W Townson , Sergei Zavgorodni

X-ray dose constantly gains interest in the interventional suite. With dose being generally difficult to monitor reliably, fast computational methods are desirable. A major drawback of the gold standard based on Monte Carlo (MC) methods is…

Maximizing the performance potential of the modern day GPU architecture requires judicious utilization of available parallel resources. Although dramatic reductions can often be obtained through straightforward mappings, further performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Loren Schwiebert , Eyad Hailat , Kamel Rushaidat , Jason Mick , Jeffrey Potoff

We accelerated an {\it ab-initio} QMC electronic structure calculation by using GPGPU. The bottleneck of the calculation for extended solid systems is replaced by CUDA-GPGPU subroutine kernels which build up spline basis set expansions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-20 Yutaka Uejima , Ryo Maezono

The interplay between the beam delivery time structure and the patient motion makes 4D dose calculation (4DDC) important when treating moving tumors with intensity modulated proton therapy. 4DDC based on phase sorting of a 4DCT suffers from…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Ivar Bengtsson , Erik Engwall , Albin Fredriksson , Lars Glimelius

Significance: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are the gold-standard for modeling light-tissue interactions due to their accuracy. Mesh-based MC (MMC) offers enhanced precision for complex tissue structures using tetrahedral mesh models. Despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shijie Yan , Douglas Dwyer , David R. Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

This work summarises the results of a comparison organized by EURADOS focused on the usage of the ICRP Reference Computational Phantoms. This activity aimed to provide training for the implementation of voxel phantoms in Monte Carlo…

Monte Carlo / Dynamic Code (MC/DC) is a portable Monte Carlo neutron transport package for rapid numerical methods exploration in heterogeneous and HPC contexts, developed under the auspices of the Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Braxton Cuneo , Joanna Piper Morgan , Ilham Variansyah , Kyle E. Niemeyer

The claim that Monte Carlo is the most accurate method is a case of misattributed credit. This claim is based on experience with advanced systems MCNPX, Geant4 and EGS. These systems achieve remarkable performance because they use most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Oleg N Vassiliev , Radhe Mohan

The widespread adoption of on-board volumetric imaging in cancer radiotherapy has stimulated research efforts to develop online adaptive radiotherapy techniques to handle the inter-fraction variation of the patient's geometry. Such efforts…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Chunhua Men , Xuejun Gu , Dongju Choi , Amitava Majumdar , Ziyi Zheng , Klaus Mueller , Steve B. Jiang

In this paper we describe and demonstrate a C++ code written to determine the trajectory of particles traversing oriented single crystals and a CUDA code written to evaluate the radiation spectra from charged particles with arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Christian Flohr Nielsen

Purpose: To validate the accuracy of 4D Monte Carlo (4DMC) simulations to calculate dose deliveries to a deforming anatomy in the presence of realistic respiratory motion traces. A previously developed deformable lung phantom comprising an…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Sara Gholampourkashi , Joanna E. Cygler , Bernie Lavigne , Emily Heath

Monte Carlo particle transport codes are well established on classical hardware and are considered as the reference tool for nuclear applications. In a growing number of domains, the design of algorithms is progressively shifting towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Noé Olivier , Michel Nowak

In simulation of nuclear reactor physics using the Monte Carlo neutron transport method on GPUs, the sorting of particles plays a significant role in performance of calculation. Traditionally, CPUs and GPUs are separated devices connected…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Changyuan Liu

We present a highly scalable Monte Carlo (MC) three-dimensional photon transport simulation platform designed for heterogeneous computing systems. Through the development of a massively parallel MC algorithm using the Open Computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Leiming Yu , Fanny Nina-Paravecino , David Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

Optimization plays a central role in modern radiation therapy, where it is used to determine optimal treatment machine parameters in order to deliver precise doses adapted to each patient case. In general, solving the optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Felix Liu , Albin Fredriksson , Stefano Markidis

Three-dimensional neutron transport calculations using the Method of Characteristics (MOC) are highly regarded for their exceptional computational efficiency, precision, and stability. Nevertheless, when dealing with extensive-scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Faguo Zhou , Shunde Li , Rong Xue , Lingkun Bu , Ningming Nie , Peng Shi , Jue Wang , Yun Hu , Zongguo Wang , Yangang Wang , Qinmeng Yang , Miao Yu

Monte Carlo calculations using the codes PENELOPE and GEANT4 have been performed to characterize the dosimetric properties of monoenergetic photon point sources in water. The dose rate in water has been calculated for energies of interest…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Julio F. Almansa , Rafael Guerrero , Feras M. O. Al-Dweri , M. Anguiano , A. M. Lallena