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Particle tracking simulations with space charge effects are very important for high-intensity proton rings. Since they include not only Hamilton mechanics of a single particle but constructing charge densities and solving Poisson equations…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Yoshinori Kurimoto

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

Stochastic simulation techniques employed for the analysis of portfolios of insurance/reinsurance risk, often referred to as `Aggregate Risk Analysis', can benefit from exploiting state-of-the-art high-performance computing platforms. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-19 A. K. Bahl , O. Baltzer , A. Rau-Chaplin , B. Varghese , A. Whiteway

Monte Carlo methods are critical to many routines in quantitative finance such as derivatives pricing, hedging and risk metrics. Unfortunately, Monte Carlo methods are very computationally expensive when it comes to running simulations in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Francois Belletti , Davis King , Kun Yang , Roland Nelet , Yusef Shafi , Yi-Fan Chen , John Anderson

Recent years have witnessed a rapid advancement in GPU technology, establishing it as a formidable high-performance parallel computing technology with superior floating-point computational capabilities compared to traditional CPUs. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xinyao Yi , Yuxin Qiao

An efficient error reconciliation scheme is important for post-processing of quantum key distribution (QKD). Recently, a multi-matrix low-density parity-check codes based reconciliation algorithm which can provide remarkable perspectives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Yu Guo , Chaohui Gao , Dong Jiang , Lijun Chen

This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explicit kinetic schemes, this work features a fast converging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Yonghao Zhang

Graph Pattern Mining (GPM) is an important, rapidly evolving, and computation demanding area. GPM computation relies on subgraph enumeration, which consists in extracting subgraphs that match a given property from an input graph. Graphics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Samuel Ferraz , Vinicius Dias , Carlos H. C. Teixeira , George Teodoro , Wagner Meira

This work addresses computing techniques for dose calculations in treatment planning with proton and ion beams, based on an efficient kernel-convolution method referred to as grid-dose spreading (GDS) and accurate heterogeneity-correction…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-01-11 Nobuyuki Kanematsu

We consider Monte Carlo simulations of classical spin models of statistical mechanics using the massively parallel architecture provided by graphics processing units (GPUs). We discuss simulations of models with discrete and continuous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Martin Weigel , Taras Yavors'kii

The Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport is developing Monte Carlo / Dynamic Code (MC/DC) as a portable Monte Carlo neutron transport package for rapid numerical methods exploration on CPU- and GPU-based high-performance…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Joanna Piper Morgan , Braxton Cuneo , Ilham Variansyah , Kyle E. Niemeyer

Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , Ruijiang Li , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

In this paper, we describe the algorithms we implemented in FDPS to make efficient use of accelerator hardware such as GPGPUs. We have developed FDPS to make it possible for many researchers to develop their own high-performance parallel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Masaki Iwasawa , Daisuke Namekata , Keigo Nitadori , Kentaro Nomura , Long Wang , Miyuki Tsubouchi , Junichiro Makino

The present study addresses the challenge of enhancing computational efficiency without compromising accuracy in numerical simulations of vacuum gas dynamics using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. A technique termed "fixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Moslem Sabouri , Ramin Zakeri , Amin Ebrahimi

We test the performances of two different approaches to the computation of forces for molecular dynamics simulations on Graphics Processing Units. A "vertex-based" approach, where a computing thread is started per particle, is compared to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Lorenzo Rovigatti , Petr Šulc , István Z. Reguly , Flavio Romano

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

As in various fields like scientific research and industrial application, the computation time optimization is becoming a task that is of increasing importance because of its highly parallel architecture. The graphics processing unit is…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Huichao Hong , Lixin Zheng , Shuwan Pan

We present a high-performance budgeted multi-level Monte Carlo method for estimates on the entire spatial domain of multi-PDE problems with random input data. The method is designed to operate optimally within memory and CPU-time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Niklas Baumgarten , Robert Kutri , Robert Scheichl

The realized stochastic volatility (RSV) model that utilizes the realized volatility as additional information has been proposed to infer volatility of financial time series. We consider the Bayesian inference of the RSV model by the Hybrid…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-28 Tetsuya Takaishi

Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Ferdinando Fioretto , Enrico Pontelli , William Yeoh , Rina Dechter