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We propose a new approach for multiverse analysis based on computational complexity, which leads to a new family of "computational" measure factors. By defining a cosmology as a space-time containing a vacuum with specified properties (for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Frederik Denef , Michael R. Douglas , Brian Greene , Claire Zukowski

In addition to cosmological tests based on the mass function and clustering of galaxy clusters, which probe the growth of cosmic structure, nature offers two independent ways of using clusters to measure cosmic distances. The first uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-01 S. W. Allen , A. B. Mantz , R. G. Morris , D. E. Applegate , P. L. Kelly , A. von der Linden , D. A. Rapetti , R. W. Schmidt

This problem was solved within the framework of the grant project "Solving of problems of cluster analysis with application of parallel algorithms and cloud technologies" in the Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modelling in Almaty.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Natalya Litvinenko

Image Processing in Astronomy is a major field of research and involves a lot of techniques pertaining to improve analyzing the properties of the celestial objects or obtaining preliminary inference from the image data. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Diganta Misra , Sparsha Mishra , Bhargav Appasani

Atmospheric studies of exoplanets and brown dwarfs are a cutting-edge and rapidly evolving area of astrophysics research. Calculating models of exoplanet or brown dwarf spectra requires knowledge of the wavelength-dependent absorption of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Arnav Agrawal , Ryan J. MacDonald

In cosmology, the analysis of observational evidence is very important to test theoretical models of the Universe. Artificial neural networks are powerful and versatile computational tools for data modelling and are recently being…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-15 Juan de Dios Rojas Olvera , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

We use cosmography to present constraints on the kinematics of the Universe, without postulating any underlying theoretical model. To this end, we use a Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis to perform comparisons to the supernova Ia Union 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Alejandro Aviles , Christine Gruber , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are powerful tools to understand the complex processes that govern the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, evaluating the realism of these simulations remains a challenge. The two common…

Major advancements in space science and detector technology brought about a revolution in global astrometry, the science of measuring distances and motions of stars in the Milky Way and in the local universe. From the first ESA astrometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-01 Beatrice Bucciarelli

Large scale structure of the Universe becomes a leading source of precision cosmological information. We present two particular tools that can be used in cosmological analyses of the redshift space galaxy clustering data: a new open-source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-15 A. Chudaykin

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

The last two decades have seen a major expansion in the availability, size, and precision of time-domain datasets in astronomy. Owing to their unique combination of flexibility, mathematical simplicity and comparative robustness, Gaussian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Suzanne Aigrain , Daniel Foreman-Mackey

Extracting cosmological parameters from galaxy/halo catalogues with sub-percent level accuracy is an important aspect of modern cosmology, especially in view of ongoing and upcoming surveys such as Euclid, DESI, and LSST. While traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Atrideb Chatterjee , Arka Banerjee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Tom Abel

The estimation of cosmological parameters from precision observables is an important industry with crucial ramifications for particle physics. This article discusses the statistical methods presently used in cosmological data analysis,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-15 Andrew R Liddle

The simulation of the two-dimensional Ising model is used as a benchmark to show the computational capabilities of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The rich programming environment now available on GPUs and flexible hardware capabilities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Joshua Romero , Mauro Bisson , Massimiliano Fatica , Massimo Bernaschi

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations based on the ideal MHD equations have become a powerful tool for modeling phenomena in a wide range of applications including laboratory, astrophysical, and space plasmas. In general, high-resolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Hon-Cheng Wong , Un-Hong Wong , Xueshang Feng , Zesheng Tang

The impending discovery and monitoring of hundreds of new gravitationally lensed quasars and supernovae from upcoming ground and space based large area surveys such as LSST, \textit{Euclid}, and \textit{Roman} necessitates the development…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Luke Weisenbach

The Convex Hull algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, robotics, and data mining. Despite the advances in the new algorithms in this area, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Roberto Carrasco , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

This paper focuses on the parallel implementation of a direct $N$-body method~(particle-particle algorithm) and the application of multiple GPUs for galactic dynamics simulations. Application of a hybrid OpenMP-CUDA technology is considered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 S. S. Khrapov , S. A. Khoperskov , A. V. Khoperskov

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