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Following the trend of other safety-critical industries like automotive and avionics, the space domain is witnessing an increase in the on-board computing performance demands. This raise in performance needs comes from both control and…

GPUs are playing an increasingly important role in general-purpose computing. Many algorithms require synchronizations at different levels of granularity in a single GPU. Additionally, the emergence of dense GPU nodes also calls for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Lingqi Zhang , Mohamed Wahib , Haoyu Zhang , Satoshi Matsuoka

We present a new very fast tree-code which runs on massively parallel Graphical Processing Units (GPU) with NVIDIA CUDA architecture. The tree-construction and calculation of multipole moments is carried out on the host CPU, while the force…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-15 Evghenii Gaburov , Jeroen Bédorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

Gravitational N-body simulations, that is numerical solutions of the equations of motions for N particles interacting gravitationally, are widely used tools in astrophysics, with applications from few body or solar system like systems all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-25 M. Trenti , P. Hut

Usage of GPUs as co-processors is a well-established approach to accelerate costly algorithms operating on matrices and vectors. We aim to further improve the performance of the Global Neutrino Analysis framework (GNA) by adding GPU support…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Anna Fatkina , Maxim Gonchar , Liudmila Kolupaeva , Dmitry Naumov , Konstantin Treskov

Since the first idea of using GPU to general purpose computing, things have evolved over the years and now there are several approaches to GPU programming. GPU computing practically began with the introduction of CUDA (Compute Unified…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Bogdan Oancea , Tudorel Andrei , Raluca Mariana Dragoescu

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) lead to a major increase in the performance of the computation of astrophysical simulations. Owing to the different nature of GPU architecture compared to traditional central processing units (CPUs)…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Christoph M. Schäfer , Sven Riecker , Thomas I. Maindl , Roland Speith , Samuel Scherrer , Wilhelm Kley

Astrophysical Challenges which demand the solution of the one million (or more) gravitating body problem are briefly discussed for the fields of cosmology, galactic nuclei and globular star clusters. Results from the classical three-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 R. Spurzem , A. Kugel

New challenges in Astronomy and Astrophysics (AA) are urging the need for a large number of exceptionally computationally intensive simulations. "Exascale" (and beyond) computational facilities are mandatory to address the size of…

We show that numerical computations based on tensor renormalization group (TRG) methods can be significantly accelerated with PyTorch on graphics processing units (GPUs) by leveraging NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-26 Raghav G. Jha , Abhishek Samlodia

The exponential growth of floating point power in graphics processing units (GPUs), together with their low cost, has given rise to an attractive platform upon which to deploy lattice QCD calculations. GPUs are essentially many (O(100))…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 M. A. Clark

We compare the performance of two very different parallel gravitational $N$-body codes for astrophysical simulations on large GPU clusters, both pioneer in their own fields as well as in certain mutual scales - NBODY6++ and Bonsai. We carry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Siyi Huang , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

Graphics processing units (GPU) had evolved from a specialized hardware capable to render high quality graphics in games to a commodity hardware for effective processing blocks of data in a parallel schema. This evolution is particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Luis Cabellos

General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) computing plays a transformative role in deep learning and machine learning by leveraging the computational advantages of parallel processing. Through the power of Compute Unified Device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ming Li , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Yizhu Wen , Qian Niu , Xinyuan Song , Zekun Jiang , Junyu Liu , Benji Peng , Sen Zhang , Xuanhe Pan , Jiawei Xu , Jinlang Wang , Keyu Chen , Caitlyn Heqi Yin , Pohsun Feng , Ming Liu

In this work, we survey the role of GPUs in real-time systems. Originally designed for parallel graphics workloads, GPUs are now widely used in time-critical applications such as machine learning, autonomous vehicles, and robotics due to…

We developed a high-speed image reduction pipeline using Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) as hardware accelerators. Astronomers desire detecting EM counterpart of gravitational-wave sources as soon as possible for sharing positional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Masafumi Niwano , Katsuhiro L. Murata , Ryo Adachi , Sili Wang , Yutaro Tachibana , Youichi Yatsu , Nobuyuki Kawai , Takashi Shimokawabe , Ryousuke Itoh

Recently alternative approaches in cosmology seeks to explain the nature of dark matter as a direct result of the non-linear spacetime curvature due to different types of deformation potentials. In this context, a key test for this…

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are recently being used to an increasing degree for general computational purposes. This development is motivated by their theoretical peak performance, which significantly exceeds that of broadly available…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Weigel

Parallel computing can offer an enormous advantage regarding the performance for very large applications in almost any field: scientific computing, computer vision, databases, data mining, and economics. GPUs are high performance many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Bogdan Oancea , Tudorel Andrei , Raluca Mariana Dragoescu