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This work arises on the environment of the ExaNeSt project aiming at design and development of an exascale ready supercomputer with low energy consumption profile but able to support the most demanding scientific and technical applications.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 David Goz , Sara Bertocco , Luca Tornatore , Giuliano Taffoni

Most relatively modern desktop or even laptop computers contain a graphics card useful for more than showing colors on a screen. In this paper, we make a case for why you should learn enough about GPU (graphics processing unit) computing to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 Knut Skogstrand Gjerden

This paper presents the first study of Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU) in the context of particle physics applications. The IPU is a new type of processor optimised for machine learning. Comparisons are made for…

The prospects of quantum computing have driven efforts to realize fully functional quantum processing units (QPUs). Recent success in developing proof-of-principle QPUs has prompted the question of how to integrate these emerging processors…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Keith A. Britt , Travis S. Humble

The N-body problem is a classic problem involving a system of N discrete bodies mutually interacting in a dynamical system. At any moment in time there are N*(N - 1)/2 such interactions occurring. This scaling as N^2 leads to computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Alexander Brandt

Lattice spin models are useful for studying critical phenomena and allow the extraction of equilibrium and dynamical properties. Simulations of such systems are usually based on Monte Carlo (MC) techniques, and the main difficulty is often…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Tal Levy , Guy Cohen , Eran Rabani

CUDA and OpenCL are two different frameworks for GPU programming. OpenCL is an open standard that can be used to program CPUs, GPUs, and other devices from different vendors, while CUDA is specific to NVIDIA GPUs. Although OpenCL promises a…

Performance · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Kamran Karimi , Neil G. Dickson , Firas Hamze

Simulations of physical phenomena are essential to the expedient design of precision components in aerospace and other high-tech industries. These phenomena are often described by mathematical models involving partial differential equations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 Daniel Magee , Kyle E Niemeyer

Scientists are increasingly exploring and utilizing the massive parallelism of general-purpose accelerators such as GPUs for scientific breakthroughs. As a result, datacenters, hyperscalers, national computing centers, and supercomputers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Prasoon Sinha , Akhil Guliani , Rutwik Jain , Brandon Tran , Matthew D. Sinclair , Shivaram Venkataraman

Currently there is considerable interest in making use of many-core processor architectures, such as Nvidia and AMD graphics processing units (GPUs) for scientific computing. In this work we explore the use of the Open Computing Language…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-04 Niket K. Choudhary , Rakesh Ginjupalli , Sandeep Navada , Gaurav Khanna

This study explores the capabilities of WebGPU, an emerging web graphics paradigm, for real-time cloth simulation. Traditional WebGL-based methods have been in handling complex physical simulations due to their emphasis on graphics…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nak-Jun Sung , Jun Ma , TaeHeon Kim , Yoo-joo Choi , Min-Hyung Choi , Min Hong

The increasing complexity and scale of cosmological N-body simulations, driven by astronomical surveys like Euclid, call for a paradigm shift towards more sustainable and energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC). The rising energy…

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 number of cores on graphical computing units (GPUs) is reaching thousands nowadays, whereas the clock speed of processors stagnates. Unfortunately, constraint programming solvers do not take advantage yet of GPU parallelism. One reason…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pierre Talbot , Frédéric Pinel , Pascal Bouvry

(Abridged) We have developed a numerical software library for collisionless N-body simulations named "Phantom-GRAPE" which highly accelerates force calculations among particles by use of a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Keigo Nitadori , Takashi Okamoto

High-level scripting languages are in many ways polar opposites to GPUs. GPUs are highly parallel, subject to hardware subtleties, and designed for maximum throughput, and they offer a tremendous advance in the performance achievable for a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Andreas Klöckner , Nicolas Pinto , Bryan Catanzaro , Yunsup Lee , Paul Ivanov , Ahmed Fasih

In this note, we present the stability as well as performance analysis of asynchronous parallel computing algorithm implemented in 1D heat equation with CUDA. The primary objective of this note lies in dissemination of asynchronous parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Kooktae Lee , Raktim Bhattacharya

We use the graphics processing unit (GPU) for fast calculations of helicity amplitudes of physics processes. As our first attempt, we compute $u\bar{u}\to n\gamma$ ($n=2$ to 8) processes in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 14$TeV by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 K. Hagiwara , J. Kanzaki , N. Okamura , D. Rainwater , T. Stelzer

The edge computing paradigm has emerged to handle cloud computing issues such as scalability, security and low response time among others. This new computing trend heavily relies on ubiquitous embedded systems on the edge. Performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Mohammad Hosseinabady , Mohd Amiruddin Bin Zainol , Jose Nunez-Yanez

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair