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We present an implementation of phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) utilizing graphical processing units (GPUs). The AFQMC method is recast in terms of matrix operations which are spread across thousands of processing…

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We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

$Objective$. Obtaining the intrinsic dose distributions in particle therapy is a challenging problem that needs to be addressed by imaging algorithms to take advantage of secondary particle detectors. In this work, we investigate the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-28 Atiq. Ur. Rahman , Mythra Varun. Nemallapudi , Cheng-Ying. Chou , Shih-Chang Lee , Chih-Hsun. Lin

Skin dose in radiotherapy is a key issue for reducing patient side effects, but dose calculations in this high-gradient region remains a challenge. To support radiation therapists and medical physicist in their decisions, a computational…

We use a graphics processing unit (GPU) for fast computations of Monte Carlo integrations. Two widely used Monte Carlo integration programs, VEGAS and BASES, are parallelized on GPU. By using $W^{+}$ plus multi-gluon production processes at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 J. Kanzaki

We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We especially focus on optimizations for modern GPU…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Michael P. Howard , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos , Arash Nikoubashman

This paper introduces a phase tracking method for planetary radio science research with computational algorithm implemented fo r NVIDIA GPUs. In contrast to the phase-locked loop (PPL) phase counting method used in traditional Doppler data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Nianchuan Jian , Dmitry Mikushin , Jianguo Yan

Cardiovascular disease affects millions of people worldwide and its social and economic cost clearly motivates scientific research. Computer simulation can lead to a better understanding of cardiac physiology, and for pathology presents…

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I introduce a new code for fast calculation of the Lomb-Scargle periodogram, that leverages the computing power of graphics processing units (GPUs). After establishing a background to the newly emergent field of GPU computing, I discuss the…

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The rapid advancement of deep learning is reshaping the hardware design landscape toward AI tasks, posing fundamental challenges for HPC workloads such as atomistic simulation. Here we present SMC-AI, a general algorithmic framework that…

When calculating the infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies in radiation-transfer models, the calculation of dust grain temperatures is generally the most time-consuming part of the calculation. Because of its highly…

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Mesoscopic simulations of hydrocarbon flow in source shales are challenging, in part due to the heterogeneous shale pores with sizes ranging from a few nanometers to a few micrometers. Additionally, the sub-continuum fluid-fluid and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Yidong Xia , Ansel Blumers , Zhen Li , Lixiang Luo , Yu-Hang Tang , Joshua Kane , Hai Huang , Matthew Andrew , Milind Deo , Jan Goral

Analysis of processing time and similarity of images generated between CPU and GPU architectures and sequential and parallel programming. For image processing a computer with AMD FX-8350 processor and an Nvidia GTX 960 Maxwell GPU was used,…

Particle-in-Cell (PIC) Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are central to plasma physics but face increasing challenges on heterogeneous HPC systems due to excessive data movement, synchronization overheads, and inefficient utilization of multiple…

Radiotherapy treatment planning remains a time-intensive iterative process requiring expert intervention in commercial treatment planning system (TPS). While machine learning approaches have demonstrated promise, most remain depedent on…

Purpose: The introduction of Gold NanoParticles (GNPs) in radiotherapy requires consideration of GNP size, location, and quantity, and more, as well as beam quality. The work is presented in two parts, with Part I (this work) investigating…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Martin P. Martinov , Elizabeth M. Fletcher , Rowan M. Thomson

Four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) has been widely used in cancer radiotherapy for accurate target delineation and motion measurement for tumors in thorax and upper abdomen areas. However, 4DCT simulation is associated with much…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Zhen Tian , Xun Jia , Steve B. Jiang

VMAT optimization is a computationally challenging problem due to its large data size, high degrees of freedom, and many hardware constraints. High-performance graphics processing units have been used to speed up the computations. However,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Zhen Tian , Fei Peng , Michael Folkerts , Jun Tan , Xun Jia , Steve B. Jiang

Recently, artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms have become a major focus for advancements in treatment planning for radiation therapy. As these are starting to become incorporated into the clinical workflow, a major concern…

Computing maximum/minimum distances between 3D meshes is crucial for various applications, i.e., robotics, CAD, VR/AR, etc. In this work, we introduce a highly parallel algorithm (gDist) optimized for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Peng Fang , Wei Wang , Ruofeng Tong , Hailong Li , Min Tang