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In this paper, we report fast calculation of a computer-generated-hologram using a new architecture of the HD5000 series GPU (RV870) made by AMD and its new software development environment, OpenCL. Using a RV870 GPU and OpenCL, we can…

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This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-13 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange , Marc A. Suchard

GPUs are now used for a wide range of problems within HPC. However, making efficient use of the computational power available with multiple GPUs is challenging. The main challenges in achieving good performance are memory layout, affecting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Robert Clucas , Philip Blakely , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

Given a point set $P$ in the plane, we seek a subset $Q\subseteq P$, whose convex hull gives a smaller and thus simpler representation of the convex hull of $P$. Specifically, let $cost(Q,P)$ denote the Hausdorff distance between the convex…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Georgiy Klimenko , Benjamin Raichel

Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs,…

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We show how to accelerate the direct solution of the Boltzmann equation using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). In order to fully exploit the computational power of the GPU, we choose a method of solution which combines a finite difference…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-18 Aldo Frezzotti , Gian Pietro Ghiroldi , Livio Gibelli

In this paper, we explore the limits of graphics processors (GPUs) for general purpose parallel computing by studying problems that require highly irregular data access patterns: parallel graph algorithms for list ranking and connected…

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We describe the GPU implementation of shifted or multimass iterative solvers for sparse linear systems of the sort encountered in lattice gauge theory. We provide a generic tool that can be used by those without GPU programming experience…

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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…

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Hardware-based acceleration is an extensive attempt to facilitate many computationally-intensive mathematics operations. This paper proposes an FPGA-based architecture to accelerate the convolution operation - a complex and expensive…

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With the rapidly increasing rate of microlensing planet detections, microlensing modeling software faces significant challenges in computation efficiency. Here, we develop the Twinkle code, an efficient and robust binary-lens modeling…

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Linear Programming (LP) is a foundational optimization technique with widespread applications in finance, energy trading, and supply chain logistics. However, traditional Central Processing Unit (CPU)-based LP solvers often struggle to meet…

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High fidelity scientific simulations modeling physical phenomena typically require solving large linear systems of equations which result from discretization of a partial differential equation (PDE) by some numerical method. This step often…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Mohammad Shafaet Islam , Qiqi Wang

Compressive sensing promises to enable bandwidth-efficient on-board compression of astronomical data by lifting the encoding complexity from the source to the receiver. The signal is recovered off-line, exploiting GPUs parallel computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Attilio Fiandrotti , Sophie M. Fosson , Chiara Ravazzi , Enrico Magli

Machine learning based on neural networks has advanced rapidly, but the high energy consumption required for training and inference remains a major challenge. Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) offers a lightweight, brain-inspired alternative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Wakuto Matsumi , Riaz-Ul-Haque Mian

Branch-and-Bound (B&B) algorithms are time intensive tree-based exploration methods for solving to optimality combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of GPU computing as a major complementary way to speed…

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Many image processing applications rely on partitioning an image into disjoint regions whose pixels are 'similar.' The watershed and waterfall transforms are established mathematical morphology pixel clustering techniques. They are both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Varduhi Yeghiazaryan , Yeva Gabrielyan , Irina Voiculescu

Real-time, energy-efficient inference on edge devices is essential for graph classification across a range of applications. Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) is a brain-inspired computing paradigm that encodes input features into…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jebacyril Arockiaraj , Dhruv Parikh , Viktor Prasanna