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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

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

Recent advancements in hardware accelerators such as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) speed up computation time relative to Central Processing Units (CPUs) not only for machine learning but, as demonstrated here, also for scientific modeling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Damien Pierce , R. Lily Hu , Yusef Shafi , Anudhyan Boral , Vladimir Anisimov , Sella Nevo , Yi-fan Chen

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

Astronomers have come to rely on the increasing performance of computers to reduce, analyze, simulate and visualize their data. In this environment, faster computation can mean more science outcomes or the opening up of new parameter spaces…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-14 Benjamin R. Barsdell , David G. Barnes , Christopher J. Fluke

We investigate applicability of GPU to DEM. NVIDIA's code obtained superior performance than CPU in computational time. A model of contact forces in NVIDIA's code is too simple for practical use. We modify this model by replacing it with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Teruyoshi Washizawa , Yasuhiro Nakahara

Over the last couple of years it has been realized that the vast computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) could be harvested for purposes other than the video game industry. This power, which at least nominally exceeds that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 Martin Weigel

Geant4 is a complex and widely-used software toolkit for the simulation of the passage of particles through matter and the interactions they undergo. It contains very extensive and flexible optical physics capabilities. These allow for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-16 Erik Dietz-Laursonn

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high performance co-processors originally intended to improve the use and quality of computer graphics applications. Once, researchers and practitioners noticed the potential of using GPU for general…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-12 K. Parand , Saeed Zafarvahedian , Sayyed A. Hossayni

Quantum computer simulators are crucial for the development of quantum computing. In this work, we investigate the suitability and performance impact of GPU and multi-GPU systems on a widely used simulation tool - the state vector simulator…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Jennifer Faj , Ivy Peng , Jacob Wahlgren , Stefano Markidis

There has been significant progress in developing neural network architectures that both achieve high predictive performance and that also achieve high application-level inference throughput (e.g., frames per second). Another metric of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jack Kosaian , Amar Phanishayee

Developing efficient GPU kernels can be difficult because of the complexity of GPU architectures and programming models. Existing performance tools only provide coarse-grained suggestions at the kernel level, if any. In this paper, we…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Keren Zhou , Xiaozhu Meng , Ryuichi Sai , John Mellor-Crummey

We report a novel application of graphics processing units (GPUs) for the purpose of accelerating the search pipelines for gravitational waves from coalescing binaries of compact objects. A speed-up of 16 fold has been achieved compared…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-25 Shin Kee Chung , Linqing Wen , David Blair , Kipp Cannon , Amitava Datta

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) can speed up the numerical solution of various problems in astrophysics including the dynamical evolution of stellar systems; the performance gain can be more than a factor 100 compared to using a Central…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-28 Mario Spera

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are important tools in life and material sciences since they allow studying chemical and biological processes in detail. However, the inherent scalability problem of particle-particle…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Michael Schaffner , Luca Benini

The growing complexity of computational workloads has amplified the need for efficient and specialized hardware accelerators. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as prominent solutions,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnab A Purkayastha , Jay Tharwani , Shobhit Aggarwal

Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) is a state-of-the-art machine learning method based on evolutionary computation. GSGP performs search operations directly at the level of program semantics, which can be done more efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Leonardo Trujillo , Jose Manuel Muñoz Contreras , Daniel E Hernandez , Mauro Castelli , Juan J Tapia

We present a case-study on the utility of graphics cards to perform massively parallel simulation of advanced Monte Carlo methods. Graphics cards, containing multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), are self-contained parallel…

Computation · Statistics 2015-05-05 Anthony Lee , Christopher Yau , Michael B. Giles , Arnaud Doucet , Christopher C. Holmes

The latest Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are reported to reach up to 200 billion floating point operations per second (200 Gflops) and to have price performance of 0.1 cents per M flop. These facts raise great interest in the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-31 S. Tomov , M. McGuigan , R. Bennett , G. Smith , J. Spiletic

The performance potential for simulating quantum electron transport on graphical processing units (GPUs) is studied. Using graphene ribbons of realistic sizes as an example it is shown that GPUs provide significant speed-ups in comparison…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 S. Ihnatsenka