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Reduction operations are extensively employed in many computational problems. A reduction consists of, given a finite set of numeric elements, combining into a single value all elements in that set, using for this a combiner function. A…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Walid Jradi , Hugo do Nascimento , Wellington Martins

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful operator splitting technique for solving structured convex optimization problems. Due to its relatively low per-iteration computational cost and ability to exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Michel Schubiger , Goran Banjac , John Lygeros

We propose a cut-based algorithm for finding all vertices and all facets of the convex hull of all integer points of a polyhedron defined by a system of linear inequalities. Our algorithm DDM Cuts is based on the Gomory cuts and the dynamic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 S. O. Semenov , N. Yu. Zolotykh

In the noisy primitives model, each primitive comparison performed by an algorithm, e.g., testing whether one value is greater than another, returns the incorrect answer with random, independent probability p < 1/2 and otherwise returns a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Michael T. Goodrich , Vinesh Sridhar

Computationally efficient and automated generation of convex hulls is desirable for high throughput materials discovery of thermodynamically stable multi-species crystal structures. A convex hull genetic algorithm is proposed that uses…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-23 Scott Donaldson , Robert A. Lawrence , Matt I. J. Probert

Recent enhancements to the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm have enabled GPUs to efficiently solve large linear programming problems, often faster than the long-dominant simplex and interior-point methods. The solutions found by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Edward Rothberg

The computation of determinants or their signs is the core procedure in many important geometric algorithms, such as convex hull, volume and point location. As the dimension of the computation space grows, a higher percentage of the total…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-01 Vissarion Fisikopoulos , Luis Peñaranda

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…

This work presents a fully GPU-accelerated algorithm for the polygonal mesh generator known as Polylla. Polylla is a tri-to-polygon mesh generator, which benefits from the half-edge data structure to manage any polygonal shape. The proposed…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Sergio Salinas-Fernández , Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler , Roberto Carrasco

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated framework for solving block tridiagonal linear systems that arise naturally in numerous real-time applications across engineering and scientific computing. Through a multi-stage permutation strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Roland Schwan , Daniel Kuhn , Colin N. Jones

We present a simple and efficient acceleration technique for an arbitrary method for computing the Euclidean projection of a point onto a convex polytope, defined as the convex hull of a finite number of points, in the case when the number…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 M. V. Dolgopolik

We present a general method for accelerating by more than an order of magnitude the convolution of pixelated functions on the sphere with a radially-symmetric kernel. Our method splits the kernel into a compact real-space component and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Franz Elsner

The recent trend of using Graphics Processing Units (GPU's) for high performance computations is driven by the high ratio of price performance for these units, complemented by their cost effectiveness. At first glance, computational fluid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Kiril S. Shterev

We present Horizon, a new graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated code to solve the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in a given spacetime. We evaluate the code in several test cases, including magnetized Riemann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Burkhard Zink

Voxel grids are a minimal and efficient environment representation that is used for robot motion planning in numerous tasks. Many state-of-the-art planning algorithms use voxel grids composed of free, occupied and unknown voxels. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Charbel Toumieh , Alain Lambert

In this article, a new solution for the convex hull problem has been presented. The convex hull is a widely known problem in computational geometry. As nature is a rich source of ideas in the field of algorithms, the solution has been…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Sina Saadati , Mohammadreza Razzazi

A new algorithm for the determination of the relative convex hull in the plane of a simple polygon A with respect to another simple polygon B which contains A, is proposed. The relative convex hull is also known as geodesic convex hull, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-02 P. Wiederhold , H. Reyes

The number of cores on graphical computing units (GPUs) is reaching thousands nowadays, whereas the clock speed of processors stagnates. Unfortunately, constraint programming solvers do not take advantage yet of GPU parallelism. One reason…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pierre Talbot , Frédéric Pinel , Pascal Bouvry

We present an algorithm specifically tailored for solving kinetic equations onto GPUs. The efficiency of the algorithm is demonstrated by solving the one-dimensional shock wave structure problem and a two-dimensional low Mach number driven…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Aldo Frezzotti , Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

Study of general purpose computation by GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) can improve the image processing capability of micro-computer system. This paper studies the parallelism of the different stages of decimation in time radix 2 FFT…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Feifei Shen , Zhenjian Song , Congrui Wu , Jiaqi Geng , Qingyun Wang