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We present LBcuda, a GPU accelerated version of LBsoft, our open-source MPI-based software for the simulation of multi-component colloidal flows. We describe the design principles, the optimization and the resulting performance as compared…
Results of porting parts of the Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics code to modern FPGA devices are presented. A single-node, double precision implementation of the Conjugate Gradient algorithm is used to invert numerically the Dirac-Wilson…
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…
Modern graphics computing units (GPUs) are designed and optimized to perform highly parallel numerical calculations. This parallelism has enabled (and promises) significant advantages, both in terms of energy performance and calculation. In…
We describe initial work on an extension of the Kaldi toolkit that supports weighted finite-state transducer (WFST) decoding on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We implement token recombination as an atomic GPU operation in order to fully…
Block-tridiagonal systems are prevalent in state estimation and optimal control, and solving these systems is often the computational bottleneck. Improving the underlying solvers therefore has a direct impact on the real-time performance of…
Restricted solid on solid surface growth models can be mapped onto binary lattice gases. We show that efficient simulation algorithms can be realized on GPUs either by CUDA or by OpenCL programming. We consider a deposition/evaporation…
We present a GPU-accelerated backend for QOCO, a C-based solver for quadratic objective second-order cone programs (SOCPs) based on a primal-dual interior point method. Our backend uses NVIDIA's cuDSS library to perform a direct sparse LDL…
We consider differential Lyapunov and Riccati equations, and generalized versions thereof. Such equations arise in many different areas and are especially important within the field of optimal control. In order to approximate their…
We present a GPU-accelerated version of the real-space SPARC electronic structure code for performing hybrid functional calculations in generalized Kohn-Sham density functional theory. In particular, we develop a batch variant of the…
In this thesis we develop techniques to efficiently solve numerical Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). Focus is put on both performance and re--usability of the methods developed, to this end a…
Inverse Kinematics (IK) is a core problem in robotics, in which joint configurations are found to achieve a desired end-effector pose. Although analytical solvers are fast and efficient, they are limited to systems with low…
The search for new physics requires a joint experimental and theoretical effort. Lattice QCD is already an essential tool for obtaining precise model-free theoretical predictions of the hadronic processes underlying many key experimental…
Simulation of Lattice QCD is a challenging computational problem. Currently, technological trends in computation show multiple divergent models of computation. We are witnessing homogeneous multi-core architectures, the use of accelerator…
Efficient algorithms for the solution of partial differential equations on parallel computers are often based on domain decomposition methods. Schwarz preconditioners combined with standard Krylov space solvers are widely used in this…
We present the GPU implementation of the general-purpose interior-point solver Clarabel for convex optimization problems with conic constraints. We introduce a mixed parallel computing strategy that processes linear constraints first, then…
In this paper we propose a mixed precision algorithm in the context of the semi-Lagrangian discontinuous Galerkin method. The performance of this approach is evaluated on a traditional dual socket workstation as well as on a Xeon Phi and an…
In this paper we present a methodology for data accesses when solving batches of Tridiagonal and Pentadiagonal matrices that all share the same left-hand-side (LHS) matrix. The intended application is to the numerical solution of Partial…
The runtime of a Lattice QCD simulation is dominated by a small kernel, which calculates the product of a vector by a sparse matrix known as the "Dslash" operator. Therefore, this kernel is frequently optimized for various HPC…
Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics simulations typically spend most of the runtime in inversions of the Fermion Matrix. This part is therefore frequently optimized for various HPC architectures. Here we compare the performance of the Intel Xeon…