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The availability of low cost sensors has led to an unprecedented growth in the volume of spatial data. However, the time required to evaluate even simple spatial queries over large data sets greatly hampers our ability to interactively…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Harish Doraiswamy , Juliana Freire

The LHC experiments are designed to detect large amount of physics events produced with a very high rate. Considering the future upgrades, the data acquisition rate will become even higher and new computing paradigms must be adopted for…

Most relatively modern desktop or even laptop computers contain a graphics card useful for more than showing colors on a screen. In this paper, we make a case for why you should learn enough about GPU (graphics processing unit) computing to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 Knut Skogstrand Gjerden

To help understand our universe better, researchers and scientists currently run extreme-scale cosmology simulations on leadership supercomputers. However, such simulations can generate large amounts of scientific data, which often result…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Sian Jin , Pascal Grosset , Christopher M. Biwer , Jesus Pulido , Jiannan Tian , Dingwen Tao , James Ahrens

After years of using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate scientific applications in fields as varied as tomography, computer vision, climate modeling, digital forensics, geospatial databases, particle physics, radio astronomy,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Ben van Werkhoven , Willem Jan Palenstijn , Alessio Sclocco

A number of scientific numerical codes can currently exploit GPUs with remarkable performance. In astrophysics, Enzo and Ramses are prime examples of such applications. The two codes have been ported to GPUs adopting different strategies…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Claudio Gheller , Peng Wang , Franco Vazza , Romain Teyssier

General-purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) has been introduced to many areas of scientific research such as bioinformatics, cryptography, computer vision, and deep learning. However, computing models in the High-energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Max Isacson , Mattias Ellert , Richard Brenner

With the fast developments of high-performance computing, first-principles methods based on quantum mechanics play a significant role in materials research, serving as fundamental tools for predicting and analyzing various properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-11 Haochong Zhang , Zichao Deng , Yu Liu , Tao Liu , Mohan Chen , Shi Yin , Lixin He

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and the dark matter distribution. Efficient lensing software is already a necessity to fully use its potential and the performance demands will only increase with the upcoming…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-12 Markus Rexroth , Christoph Schäfer , Gilles Fourestey , Jean-Paul Kneib

In the next decade, the demands for computing in large scientific experiments are expected to grow tremendously. During the same time period, CPU performance increases will be limited. At the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), these two…

General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) computing plays a transformative role in deep learning and machine learning by leveraging the computational advantages of parallel processing. Through the power of Compute Unified Device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ming Li , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Yizhu Wen , Qian Niu , Xinyuan Song , Zekun Jiang , Junyu Liu , Benji Peng , Sen Zhang , Xuanhe Pan , Jiawei Xu , Jinlang Wang , Keyu Chen , Caitlyn Heqi Yin , Pohsun Feng , Ming Liu

General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit(GPGPU) is used widely for achieving high performance or high throughput in parallel programming. This capability of GPGPUs is very famous in the new era and mostly used for scientific computing which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Vajira Thambawita , Roshan G. Ragel , Dhammike Elkaduwe

The exponential growth of floating point power in graphics processing units (GPUs), together with their low cost, has given rise to an attractive platform upon which to deploy lattice QCD calculations. GPUs are essentially many (O(100))…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 M. A. Clark

Using GPUs as general-purpose processors has revolutionized parallel computing by offering, for a large and growing set of algorithms, massive data-parallelization on desktop machines. An obstacle to widespread adoption, however, is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Alexey Kolesnichenko , Christopher M. Poskitt , Sebastian Nanz , Bertrand Meyer

Developing and redesigning astrophysical, cosmological, and space plasma numerical codes for existing and next-generation accelerators is critical for enabling large-scale simulations. To address these challenges, the SPACE Center of…

Hybrid computational architectures based on the joint power of Central Processing Units and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular and powerful hardware tools for a wide range of simulations in biology, chemistry, engineering,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Mario Spera

One of the main challenges in Heavy Energy Physics is to make fast analysis of high amount of experimental and simulated data. At LHC-CERN one p-p event is approximate 1 Mb in size. The time taken to analyze the data and obtain fast results…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-01 Mihai Niculescu , Sorin-Ion Zgura

High-resolution tri-axial simulations are indispensable for realistically co-modeling the dynamical signatures and the radiative fingerprints of astrophysical jets, which are becoming increasingly important in modern computational studies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-26 Gourab Giri , Andrea Mignone , Alessio Suriano , Marco Rossazza , Stefano Truzzi

To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a direct inverse ray-shooting code implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. F. Bate , C. J. Fluke , B. R. Barsdell , H. Garsden , G. F. Lewis

As part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a recent focus of development efforts for the SUite of Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers (SUNDIALS) has been to enable GPU-accelerated time integration in scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Cody J. Balos , David J. Gardner , Carol S. Woodward , Daniel R. Reynolds