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Programming embedded systems applications involve writing concurrent, event-driven and timing-aware programs. Traditionally, such programs are written in low-level machine-oriented programming languages like C or Assembly. We present an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Abhiroop Sarkar , Bo Joel Svensson , Mary Sheeran

In recent years, machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) have attracted significant attention as a method that enables large-scale, long-time atomistic simulations while maintaining accuracy comparable to electronic structure…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-27 Yuta Yoshimoto , Naoki Matsumura , Yuto Iwasaki , Hiroshi Nakao , Yasufumi Sakai

This paper introduces a random-batch molecular dynamics (RBMD) package for fast simulations of particle systems at the nano/micro scale. Different from existing packages, the RBMD uses random batch methods for nonbonded interactions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Weihang Gao , Teng Zhao , Yongfa Guo , Jiuyang Liang , Huan Liu , Maoying Luo , Zedong Luo , Wei Qin , Yichao Wang , Qi Zhou , Shi Jin , Zhenli Xu

Collective operations are common features of parallel programming models that are frequently used in High-Performance (HPC) and machine/ deep learning (ML/ DL) applications. In strong scaling scenarios, collective operations can negatively…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Roman Iakymchuk , Amandio Faustino , Andrew Emerson , Joao Barreto , Valeria Bartsch , Rodrigo Rodrigues , Jose C. Monteiro

Although event-driven algorithms have been shown to be far more efficient than time-driven methods such as conventional molecular dynamics, they have not become as popular. The main obstacle seems to be the difficulty of parallelizing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Miller , S. Luding

QCMPI is a quantum computer (QC) simulation package written in Fortran 90 with parallel processing capabilities. It is an accessible research tool that permits rapid evaluation of quantum algorithms for a large number of qubits and for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Tabakin , B. Julia-Diaz

High precision atomic data is indispensable for experiments involving studies of fundamental interactions, astrophysics, atomic clocks, plasma science, and others. We develop new parallel atomic structure codes and explore the difficulties…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 C. Cheung , M. S. Safronova , S. G. Porsev

Recently, there has been growing interest in using standard language constructs (e.g. C++'s Parallel Algorithms and Fortran's do concurrent) for accelerated computing as an alternative to directive-based APIs (e.g. OpenMP and OpenACC).…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Miko M. Stulajter , Ronald M. Caplan , Jon A. Linker

This paper introduces algorithms for problems where a decision maker has to control a system composed of several components and has access to only partial information on the state of each component. Such problems are difficult because of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Victor Cohen , Axel Parmentier

A new pairwise hybrid machine-learning/molecular mechanics (ML/MM) potential is introduced that is conceived for application to large, heterogeneous condensed-phase systems. The PhysNet ML method describes monomers and short-range dimer…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Kham Lek Chaton , Eric D. Boittier , Mike Devereux , Markus Meuwly

We discuss the design and implementation of HYDRA_OMP a parallel implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Adaptive P3M (SPH-AP3M) code HYDRA. The code is designed primarily for conducting cosmological hydrodynamic simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. J. Thacker , H. M. P. Couchman

Multiple time scale molecular dynamics enhances computational efficiency by updating slow motions less frequently than fast motions. However, in practice the largest outer time step possible is limited not by the physical forces but by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-13 Joseph A. Morrone , Thomas E. Markland , Michele Ceriotti , B. J. Berne

In recent years, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as a pivotal tool for understanding the structure, dynamics, and phase behavior in charged soft matter systems. To explore phenomena across greater length and time scales in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Benjamin Bobin Ye , Shensheng Chen , Zhen-Gang Wang

Ferroelectric materials with switchable spontaneous polarization underpin non-volatile memories, transistors, sensors, and emerging neuromorphic chips. Their performance and stability are governed by polarization dynamics and domain…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-20 Dongyu Bai , Ri He , Junxian Liu , Liangzhi Kou

This article presents a comparison of various implementations of the Lattice Discrete Particle Model (LDPM) for the numerical simulation of concrete and other heterogeneous quasibrittle materials. The comparison involves the use of…

Power density constraints are limiting the performance improvements of modern CPUs. To address this we have seen the introduction of lower-power, multi-core processors such as GPGPU, ARM and Intel MIC. To stay within the power density…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-17 Giuseppe Cerati , Peter Elmer , Steven Lantz , Kevin McDermott , Dan Riley , Matevž Tadel , Peter Wittich , Frank Würthwein , Avi Yagil

Asymmetric multicore processors (AMPs) couple high-performance big cores and low-power small cores with the same instruction-set architecture but different features, such as clock frequency or microarchitecture. Previous work has shown that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Juan Carlos Saez , Fernando Castro , Manuel Prieto-Matias

We modified a MPI-friendly density functional theory (DFT) source code within hybrid parallelization including CUDA. Our objective is to find out how simple conversions within the hybrid parallelization with mid-range GPUs affect DFT code…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Jae-Hyeon Parq , Erik Sevre , Sang-Mook Lee

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations play a crucial role in resolving the underlying conformational dynamics of molecular systems. However, their capability to correctly reproduce and predict dynamics in agreement with experiments is limited…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Ivan Gilardoni , Valerio Piomponi , Thorben Fröhlking , Giovanni Bussi

High-energy physics (HEP) experiments have developed millions of lines of code over decades that are optimized to run on traditional x86 CPU systems. However, we are seeing a rapidly increasing fraction of floating point computing power in…