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Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Jizhou Liu , Fang Q. Hu , Xiaodong Li

The ability to train large-scale neural networks has resulted in state-of-the-art performance in many areas of computer vision. These results have largely come from computational break throughs of two forms: model parallelism, e.g. GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Thomas Paine , Hailin Jin , Jianchao Yang , Zhe Lin , Thomas Huang

Fitting model parameters to experimental data is a common yet often challenging task, especially if the model contains many parameters. Typically, algorithms get lost in regions of parameter space in which the model is unresponsive to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-01-31 M. K. Transtrum , B. B. Machta , J. P. Sethna

This work deals with the optimization of computer programs targeting Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The goal is to lift, from programmers to optimizing compilers, the heavy burden of determining program details that are dependent on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Xiaohui Chen , Marc Moreno-Maza , Jeeva Paudel , Ning Xie

We discuss the application of graphical processing units (GPUs) to accelerate real-space density functional theory (DFT) calculations. To make our implementation efficient, we have developed a scheme to expose the data parallelism available…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Xavier Andrade , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

We adopt CUDA-capable Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) for Coulomb, Landau and maximally Abelian gauge fixing in 3+1 dimensional SU(3) lattice gauge field theories. The local overrelaxation algorithm is perfectly suited for highly parallel…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2012-12-07 Mario Schröck , Hannes Vogt

The latest Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are reported to reach up to 200 billion floating point operations per second (200 Gflops) and to have price performance of 0.1 cents per M flop. These facts raise great interest in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-31 S. Tomov , M. McGuigan , R. Bennett , G. Smith , J. Spiletic

Grid-based modelling is widely used for estimating stellar parameters. However, stellar model grid is sparse because of the computational cost. This paper demonstrates an application of a machine-learning algorithm using the Gaussian…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Tanda Li , Guy R. Davies , Alexander J. Lyttle , Warrick H. Ball , Lindsey M. Carboneau , Rafael A. Garcia

Coverage motion planning is essential to a wide range of robotic tasks. Unlike conventional motion planning problems, which reason over temporal sequences of states, coverage motion planning requires reasoning over the spatial distribution…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Max M. Sun , Jueun Kwon , Todd Murphey

I start by providing an updated summary of the penalized pixel-fitting (pPXF) method, which is used to extract the stellar and gas kinematics, as well as the stellar population of galaxies, via full spectrum fitting. I then focus on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Michele Cappellari

Nowadays, GPU accelerators are commonly used to speed up general-purpose computing tasks on a variety of hardware. However, due to the diversity of GPU architectures and processed data, optimization of codes for a particular type of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Jiří Filipovič , Jana Hozzová , Amin Nezarat , Jaroslav Oľha , Filip Petrovič

Efficient and real time segmentation of color images has a variety of importance in many fields of computer vision such as image compression, medical imaging, mapping and autonomous navigation. Being one of the most computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Roopal Nahar , Akanksha Baranwal , K. Madhava Krishna

The investigation of samples with a spatial resolution in the nanometer range relies on the precise and stable positioning of the sample. Due to inherent mechanical instabilities of typical sample stages in optical microscopes, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Marcel Leutenegger , Michael Weber

Motif finding is one of the NP-complete problems in Computational Biology. Existing nondeterministic algorithms for motif finding do not guarantee the global optimality of results and are sensitive to initial parameters. To address this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Jhoirene B. Clemente , Francis George C. Cabarle , Henry N. Adorna

In this work we propose an accelerated stochastic learning system for very large-scale applications. Acceleration is achieved by mapping the training algorithm onto massively parallel processors: we demonstrate a parallel, asynchronous GPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Thomas Parnell , Celestine Dünner , Kubilay Atasu , Manolis Sifalakis , Haris Pozidis

Cluster identification tasks occur in a multitude of contexts in physics and engineering such as, for instance, cluster algorithms for simulating spin models, percolation simulations, segmentation problems in image processing, or network…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Martin Weigel

In this paper we present an optimized parallel implementation of a flexible MAP decoder for synchronization error correcting codes, supporting a very wide range of code sizes and channel conditions. On mid-range GPUs we demonstrate decoding…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Johann A. Briffa

We present a single-node, multi-GPU programmable graph processing library that allows programmers to easily extend single-GPU graph algorithms to achieve scalable performance on large graphs with billions of edges. Directly using the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yuechao Pan , Yangzihao Wang , Yuduo Wu , Carl Yang , John D. Owens

We present a highly general implementation of fast multipole methods on graphics processing units (GPUs). Our two-dimensional double precision code features an asymmetric type of adaptive space discretization leading to a particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-22 Anders Goude , Stefan Engblom

In today's modern wide-field galaxy surveys, there is the necessity for parametric surface brightness decomposition codes characterised by accuracy, small degree of user intervention, and high degree of parallelisation. We try to address…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-03 Luca Tortorelli , Amata Mercurio