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Graphics Processing Unit, or GPUs, have been successfully adopted both for graphic computation in 3D applications, and for general purpose application (GP-GPUs), thank to their tremendous performance-per-watt. Recently, there is a big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Paolo Burgio

Increased reliance on graphics processing units (GPUs) for high-intensity computing tasks raises challenges regarding energy consumption. To address this issue, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) has emerged as a promising…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Qiang Wang , Laiyi Li , Weile Luo , Yijia Zhang , Bingqiang Wang

Modeling multimetallic systems efficiently enables faster prediction of desirable chemical properties and design of new materials. This work describes an initial implementation for performing multireference wave function method localized…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Valay Agarawal , Rishu Khurana , Cong Liu , Matthew R. Hermes , Christopher Knight , Laura Gagliardi

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

We explore how the big-three computing paradigms -- symmetric multi-processor (SMC), graphical processing units (GPUs), and cluster computing -- can together be brought to bare on large-data Gaussian processes (GP) regression problems via a…

Computation · Statistics 2014-06-05 Robert B. Gramacy , Jarad Niemi , Robin M. Weiss

The Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) has evolved into a powerful and flexible processor. The latest graphic processors provide fully programmable vertex and pixel processing units that support vector operations up to single floating-point…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Guillaume Da Graçca , David Defour

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

Density functional theory (DFT) is an essential building block for modern theoretical physics, chemistry, and engineering, especially those concerning electronic properties. Through decades of development, various program packages for…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-21 Yusuke Nomura , Ryosuke Akashi

This chapter presents controlled approximations of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) that enable very large scale simulations. The work is motivated by the study of defects in crystalline solids, though the ideas can be used in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Vikram Gavini , Michael Ortiz , Mauricio Ponga , Phanish Suryanarayana

Density functional theory (DFT) underpins modern atomistic simulations of transition-metal surfaces. It can predict key properties linked to catalytic performance, such as adsorption energies and barrier heights, enabling new paradigms in…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-23 Benjamin X. Shi , Timothy C. Berkelbach

We introduce a practical hybrid approach that combines orbital-free density functional theory (DFT) with Kohn-Sham DFT for speeding up first-principles molecular dynamics simulations. Equilibrated ionic configurations are generated using…

Stochastic and mixed stochastic-deterministic density functional theory (DFT) are promising new approaches for the calculation of the equation-of-state and transport properties in materials under extreme conditions. In the intermediate warm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Vidushi Sharma , Lee A. Collins , Alexander J. White

Fractal image generation algorithms exhibit extreme parallelizability. Using general purpose graphics processing unit (GPU) programming to implement escape-time algorithms for Julia sets of functions,parallel methods generate visually…

We present distributed algorithms for training dynamic Graph Neural Networks (GNN) on large scale graphs spanning multi-node, multi-GPU systems. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first scaling study on dynamic GNN. We devise…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Venkatesan T. Chakaravarthy , Shivmaran S. Pandian , Saurabh Raje , Yogish Sabharwal , Toyotaro Suzumura , Shashanka Ubaru

To explore the applicability of orbital-free density functional theory (OF-DFT) in nuclear physics, we perform a systematic benchmark of 36 one-point kinetic energy density functionals, which are originally developed for electron systems in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Tian Shuai Shang , Jian Li , Haozhao Liang , Xinhui Wu , Cheng Ma , Wenhui Mi , Xuecheng Shao , Yanchao Wang

Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is a widely-used electronic structure theory for materials as well as molecules. DFT is needed especially for large systems, ab initio molecular dynamics, and high-throughput searches for functional…

Numerical solution of reaction-diffusion equations in three dimensions is one of the most challenging applied mathematical problems. Since these simulations are very time consuming, any ideas and strategies aiming at the reduction of CPU…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Ferenc Molnar , Ferenc Izsak , Robert Meszaros , Istvan Lagzi

The kd-tree is a fundamental tool in computer science. Among others, an application of the kd-tree search (oct-tree method) to fast evaluation of particle interactions and neighbor search is highly important since computational complexity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-04 N. Nakasato

In this work, we present two parallel algorithms for the large-scale discrete Fourier transform (DFT) on Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) clusters. The two parallel algorithms are associated with two formulations of DFT: one is based on the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Tianjian Lu , Yi-Fan Chen , Blake Hechtman , Tao Wang , John Anderson

Within the scope of reacting flow simulations, the real-time direct integration (DI) of stiff ordinary differential equations (ODE) for the computation of chemical kinetics stands as the primary demand on computational resources. Meanwhile,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-01 Min Zhang , Runze Mao , Han Li , Zhenhua An , Zhi X. Chen