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Stochastic simulation techniques employed for the analysis of portfolios of insurance/reinsurance risk, often referred to as `Aggregate Risk Analysis', can benefit from exploiting state-of-the-art high-performance computing platforms. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-19 A. K. Bahl , O. Baltzer , A. Rau-Chaplin , B. Varghese , A. Whiteway

We discuss an alternative accurate Monte Carlo method to calculate the ground-state energy and related quantities for Laughlin states of the fractional quantum Hall effect in a disk geometry. This alternative approach allows us to obtain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orion Ciftja , Carlos Wexler

Monte Carlo simulations are methods for simulating statistical systems. The aim is to generate a representative ensemble of configurations to access thermodynamical quantities without the need to solve the system analytically or to perform…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jean-Charles Walter , Gerard Barkema

This paper presents an accurate density computation approach for large dark matter simulations, based on a recently introduced phase-space tessellation technique and designed for massively parallel, heterogeneous cluster architectures. We…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Ralf Kaehler

Population annealing is a powerful tool for large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. We adapt this method to molecular dynamics simulations and demonstrate its excellent accelerating effect by simulating the folding of a short peptide commonly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Henrik Christiansen , Martin Weigel , Wolfhard Janke

Melting in two spatial dimensions, as realized in thin films or at interfaces, represents one of the most fascinating phase transitions in nature, but it remains poorly understood. Even for the fundamental hard-disk model, the melting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-13 Etienne P. Bernard , Werner Krauth

Large-scale deep learning benefits from an emerging class of AI accelerators. Some of these accelerators' designs are general enough for compute-intensive applications beyond AI and Cloud TPU is one such example. In this paper, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kun Yang , Yi-Fan Chen , Georgios Roumpos , Chris Colby , John Anderson

We simulate crystallization and melting with local Monte Carlo (LMC), event-chain Monte Carlo (ECMC), and with event-driven molecular dynamics (EDMD) in systems with up to one million three-dimensional hard spheres. We illustrate that our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Masaharu Isobe , Werner Krauth

The simulation of heat flow through heterogeneous material is important for the design of structural and electronic components. Classical analytical solutions to the heat equation PDE are not known for many such domains, even those having…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Andrew Loeb , Christopher Earls

We study parallel particle-in-cell (PIC) methods for low-temperature plasmas (LTPs), which discretize kinetic formulations that capture the time evolution of the probability density function of particles as a function of position and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 James Almgren-Bell , Nader Al Awar , Dilip S Geethakrishnan , Milos Gligoric , George Biros

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

We demonstrate that the multicanonical approach is not restricted to Monte Carlo simulations, but can also be applied to simulation techniques such as molecular dynamics, Langevin, and hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms. The effectiveness of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ulrich H. E. Hansmann , Yuko Okamoto , Frank Eisenmenger

Monte Carlo simulations of the transport of protons in human tissue have been deployed on graphics processing units (GPUs) with impressive results. To provide a more complete treatment of non-elastic nuclear interactions in these…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 H. Wan Chan Tseung , C. Beltran

In the stochastic gradient descent (SGD) for sequential simulations such as the neural stochastic differential equations, the Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method is known to offer better theoretical computational complexity compared to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Kei Ishikawa

We report a novel Monte Carlo scheme that greatly enhances the power of parallel-tempering simulations. In this method, we boost the accumulation of statistical averages by including information about all potential parallel tempering trial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Coluzza Daan Frenkel

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provide the golden standard for the ab initio simulations of identical particles. In this work, we achieved significant GPU acceleration based on PIMD, which is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong

In this paper, we design a novel algorithm based on Least-Squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) in order to approximate the solution of discrete time Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs). Our algorithm allows massive parallelization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-01 E. Gobet , J. G. López-Salas , P. Turkedjiev , C. Vázquez

We present efficient algorithms to build data structures and the lists needed for fast multipole methods. The algorithms are capable of being efficiently implemented on both serial, data parallel GPU and on distributed architectures. With…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Qi Hu , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

The jump-walking Monte-Carlo algorithm is revisited and updated to study the equilibrium properties of systems exhibiting quasi-ergodicity. It is designed for a single processing thread as opposed to currently predominant algorithms for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-18 Zilvinas Rimas , Sergei Taraskin

We propose a new generalized-ensemble algorithm, which we refer to as the multibaric-multithermal Monte Carlo method. The multibaric-multithermal Monte Carlo simulations perform random walks widely both in volume space and in potential…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Okumura , Y. Okamoto