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Processing-In-Memory (PIM) architectures offer a promising approach to accelerate Graph Neural Network (GNN) training and inference. However, various PIM devices such as ReRAM, FeFET, PCM, MRAM, and SRAM exist, with each device offering…

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Ralf Kaehler

We present our experience of porting the code used in the wave-packet convergent-close-coupling (WP-CCC) approach to run on NVIDIA V100 and AMD MI250X GPUs. The WP-CCC approach is a method used in the field of ion-atom collision physics to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 I. B. Abdurakhmanov , N. W. Antonio , M. Cytowski , A. S. Kadyrov

We developed a new direct-tree hybrid N-body algorithm for fully self-consistent N-body simulations of star clusters in their parent galaxies. In such simulations, star clusters need high accuracy, while galaxies need a fast scheme because…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Fujii , M. Iwasawa , Y. Funato , J. Makino

This paper presents, to the author's knowledge, the first graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated program that solves the evolution of interacting scalar fields in an expanding universe. We present the implementation in NVIDIA's Compute…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jani Sainio

We present preliminary performance results of gPLUTO, the new GPU-optimized implementation of the PLUTO code for computational plasma astrophysics. Like its predecessor, gPLUTO employs a finite-volume formulation to numerically solve the…

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now powerful and flexible systems adapted and used for other purposes than graphics calculations (General Purpose computation on GPU -- GPGPU). We present here a prototype to be integrated into…

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While most robotics simulation libraries are built for low-dimensional and intrinsically serial tasks, soft-body and multi-agent robotics have created a demand for simulation environments that can model many interacting bodies in parallel.…

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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

Symplectic integrators are the tool of choice for many researchers studying dynamical systems because of their good long-term energy conservation properties. For systems with a dominant central mass, symplectic integrators are also highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John E. Chambers

We present a scheme for the parallelization of quantum Monte Carlo on graphical processing units, focusing on bosonic systems and variational Monte Carlo. We use asynchronous execution schemes with shared memory persistence, and obtain an…

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These notes accompany the open-source code published in GitHub which implements a GPU-based line-segment, surface-triangle intersection algorithm in CUDA. It mentions some relevant works and discusses issues specific to this implementation.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Raymond Leung

Leapfrog integration has been the method of choice in N-body simulations owing to its low computational cost for a symplectic integrator with second order accuracy. We introduce a new leapfrog integrator that allows for variable timesteps…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Quinn , Neal Katz , Joachim Stadel , George Lake

Despite the development of an extensive toolbox of multi-scale rarefied flow simulators, such simulations remain challenging due to the significant disparity of collisional and macroscopic spatio-temporal scales. Our study offers a novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-17 Marcel Pfeiffer , Félix Garmirian , M. Hossein Gorji

This paper introduces cuVegas, a CUDA-based implementation of the Vegas Enhanced Algorithm (VEGAS+), optimized for multi-dimensional integration in GPU environments. The VEGAS+ algorithm is an advanced form of Monte Carlo integration,…

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The reproducibility of experiments is one of the main principles of the scientific method. However, numerical N-body experiments, especially those of planetary systems, are currently not reproducible. In the most optimistic scenario, they…

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The field of plasma physics heavily relies on simulations to model various phenomena, such as instabilities, turbulence, and nonlinear behaviors that would otherwise be difficult to study from a purely theoretical approach. Simulations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Giorgio Daneri

We present a GPU implementation of LAMMPS, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics (MD) software package, and show 5x to 13x single node speedups versus the CPU-only version of LAMMPS. This new CUDA package for LAMMPS also enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-08 Christian R. Trott , Lars Winterfeld , Paul S. Crozier

Real-time nonequilibrium Green functions (NEGF) have been very successful to simulate the dynamics of correlated many-particle systems far from equilibrium. However, NEGF simulations are computationally expensive since the effort scales…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-27 Karsten Balzer , Niclas Schlünzen , Hannes Ohldag , Jan-Philip Joost , Michael Bonitz