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We present a general method for accelerating by more than an order of magnitude the convolution of pixelated functions on the sphere with a radially-symmetric kernel. Our method splits the kernel into a compact real-space component and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Franz Elsner

We propose fast, exact and efficient algorithms for the convolution of two arbitrary functions on the sphere which speed up computations by a factor \order{\sqrt{N}} compared to present methods where $N$ is the number of pixels. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Krzysztof M. Gorski

Image subtraction in astronomy is a tool for transient object discovery such as asteroids, extra-solar planets and supernovae. To match point spread functions (PSFs) between images of the same field taken at different times a convolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Steven Hartung , Hemant Shukla , J. Patrick Miller , Carlton Pennypacker

We describe a hybrid Fourier/direct space convolution algorithm for compact radial (azimuthally symmetric) kernels on the sphere. For high resolution maps covering a large fraction of the sky, our implementation takes advantage of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Franz Elsner , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Precise measurement of the angular power spectrum of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropy can tightly constrain many cosmological models and parameters. However, accurate measurements can only be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 S. Mitra , G. Rocha , K. M. Górski , K. M. Huffenberger , H. K. Eriksen , M. A. J. Ashdown , C. R. Lawrence

We describe a accurate and fast pixel-based statistical method to interpolate fields of arbitrary spin on the sphere. We call this method Fast and Lean Interpolation on the Sphere (FLINTS). The method predicts the optimal interpolated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-21 Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The spherical harmonic transform is a powerful tool in the analysis of spherical data sets, such as the cosmic microwave background data. In this work, we present a new scheme for the spherical harmonic transforms that supports both CPU and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Chi Tian , Siyu Li , Hao Liu

Image convolution is widely used for sharpening, blurring and edge detection. In this paper, we review two common algorithms for convolving a 2D image by a separable kernel (filter). After optimising the naive codes using loop unrolling and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Ashkan Tousimojarad , Wim Vanderbauwhede , W Paul Cockshott

Spherical CNNs generalize CNNs to functions on the sphere, by using spherical convolutions as the main linear operation. The most accurate and efficient way to compute spherical convolutions is in the spectral domain (via the convolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Carlos Esteves , Jean-Jacques Slotine , Ameesh Makadia

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

This work presents a GPU thread mapping approach that allows doing fast parallel stencil-like computations on discrete fractals using their compact representation. The intuition behind is to employ two GPU tensor-core accelerated thread…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Felipe A. Quezada , Cristóbal A. Navarro

We discuss in some details a novel algorithm for performing partial-sky spherical harmonic transforms (SHT), building on the Fourier-sphere method of Reinecke et al (2023) handling efficiently high numbers of arbitrary locations on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Julien Carron , Martin Reinecke

The convolution computation is widely used in many fields, especially in CNNs. Because of the rapid growth of the training data in CNNs, GPUs have been used for the acceleration, and memory-efficient algorithms are focused because of thier…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Qiong Chang , Masaki Onishi , Tsutomu Maruyama

Deep cosmic microwave background polarization experiments allow a very precise internal reconstruction of the gravitational lensing signal in pricinple. For this aim, likelihood-based or Bayesian methods are typically necessary, where very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Martin Reinecke , Sebastian Belkner , Julien Carron

We present a case study describing efforts to optimise and modernise "Modal", the simulation and analysis pipeline used by the Planck satellite experiment for constraining general non-Gaussian models of the early universe via the bispectrum…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-27 J. P. Briggs , S. J. Pennycook , J. R. Fergusson , J. Jäykkä , E. P. S. Shellard

Convolutional gridding is a processor-intensive step in interferometric imaging. While it is possible to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate this operation, existing methods use only a fraction of the available flops. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Bruce Merry

We present a GPU-accelerated cosmological simulation code, PhotoNs-GPU, based on algorithm of Particle Mesh Fast Multipole Method (PM-FMM), and focus on the GPU utilization and optimization. A proper interpolated method for truncated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Qiao Wang , Chen Meng

We present $\texttt{cunusht}$, a general-purpose Python package that wraps a highly efficient CUDA implementation of the nonuniform spin-$0$ spherical harmonic transform. The method is applicable to arbitrary pixelization schemes, including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-24 Sebastian Belkner , Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden , Julien Carron , Nathanael Schaeffer , Martin Reinecke

The paper presents a parallel implementation of existing image fusion methods on a graphical cluster. Parallel implementations of methods based on discrete wavelet transformation (Haars and Daubechies discrete wavelet transform) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Anas M. Al-Oraiqat , E. A. Bashkov , V. Babkov , C. Titarenko

In this work, the fast-convolving reproducing kernel particle method (FC-RKPM) is introduced. This method is hundreds to millions of times faster than the traditional RKPM for 3D meshfree simulations. In this approach, the meshfree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Siavash Jafarzadeh , Michael Hillman
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