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We created an efficient algorithm suitable for graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform Monte Carlo simulations of a subset of reaction-diffusion models. The algorithm uses techniques that are specific to GPU programming, and combines…

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We discuss the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods in solving continuum radiative transfer problems. The sampling of the radiation field and convergence of dust temperature calculations in the case of optically thick clouds are both studied.…

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As in various fields like scientific research and industrial application, the computation time optimization is becoming a task that is of increasing importance because of its highly parallel architecture. The graphics processing unit is…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Huichao Hong , Lixin Zheng , Shuwan Pan

Computer modeling of multicellular systems has been a valuable tool for interpreting and guiding in vitro experiments relevant to embryonic morphogenesis, tumor growth, angiogenesis and, lately, structure formation following the printing of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elijah Flenner , Lorant Janosi , Bogdan Barz , Adrian Neagu , Gabor Forgacs , Ioan Kosztin

In drug discovery, molecular docking is the task in charge of estimating the position of a molecule when interacting with the docking site. This task is usually used to perform screening of a large library of molecules, in the early phase…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Emanuele Vitali , Davide Gadioli , Gianluca Palermo , Andrea Beccari , Carlo Cavazzoni , Cristina Silvano

The claim that Monte Carlo is the most accurate method is a case of misattributed credit. This claim is based on experience with advanced systems MCNPX, Geant4 and EGS. These systems achieve remarkable performance because they use most…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Oleg N Vassiliev , Radhe Mohan

In this work, we introduce three algorithmic improvements to reduce the cost and improve the scaling of orbital space variational Monte Carlo (VMC). First, we show that by appropriately screening the one- and two-electron integrals of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Iliya Sabzevari , Sandeep Sharma

We present a Monte Carlo (MC) code we wrote to simulate the photospheric process and to study the photospheric spectrum above the peak energy. Our simulations were performed with a photon to electron ratio $N_{\gamma}/N_{e} = 10^{5}$, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Rodolfo Santana , Patrick Crumley , Roberto A. Hernandez , Pawan Kumar

Purpose: We presented a GPU-based MC framework, ARCHER-EPID, specifically designed for EPID transit dosimetry, with improving accuracy and efficiency. Methods: A comprehensive MC framework was developed to perform full radiation transport…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Ning Gao , Didi Li , Na Liu , Yankui Chang , Qiang Ren , Xi Pei , Zhi Wang , Xie George Xu

Computer simulation plays a central role in modern day materials science. The utility of a given computational approach depends largely on the balance it provides between accuracy and computational cost. Molecular crystals are a class of…

General relativistic radiation hydrodynamics simulations are necessary to accurately model a number of astrophysical systems involving black holes and neutron stars. Photon transport plays a crucial role in radiatively dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Francois Foucart

Monte Carlo statistical ray-tracing methods are commonly employed to simulate carrier transport in nanostructured materials. In the case of a large degree of nanostructuring and under linear response (small driving fields), these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Pankaj Priyadarshi , Neophytos Neophytou

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a widely used sampling method in modern artificial intelligence and probabilistic computing systems. It involves repetitive random number generations and thus often dominates the latency of probabilistic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yihan Fu , Daijing Shi , Anjunyi Fan , Wenshuo Yue , Yuchao Yang , Ru Huang , Bonan Yan

Ab initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is a stochastic approach for solving the many-body Schr\"odinger equation without resorting to one-body approximations. QMC algorithms are readily parallelizable via ensembles of $N_w$ walkers, making…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Kousuke Nakano , Sandro Sorella , Michele Casula

Purpose: This work advances a Monte Carlo (MC) method to combine ionizing radiation physics with optical physics, in a manner which was implicitly designed for deployment with the most widely accessible parallelization and portability…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Ethan P. M. LaRochelle , Pedro Arce , Brian W. Pogue

A common way to simulate the transport and spread of pollutants in the atmosphere is via stochastic Lagrangian dispersion models. Mathematically, these models describe turbulent transport processes with stochastic differential equations…

Due to the increasing complexity of radiotherapy delivery, accurate dose verification has become an essential part of the clinical treatment process. The purpose of this work was to develop an electronic portal image (EPI) based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Reid W Townson , Sergei Zavgorodni

We analyze the line radiative transfer in protoplanetary disks using several approximate methods and a well-tested Accelerated Monte Carlo code. A low-mass flaring disk model with uniform as well as stratified molecular abundances is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ya. Pavlyuchenkov , D. Semenov , Th. Henning , St. Guilloteau , V. Pietu , R. Launhardt , A. Dutrey

Background: Accurate and fast dose calculation is essential for optimizing carbon ion therapy. Existing machine learning (ML) models have been developed for other radiotherapy modalities. They use patient data with uniform CT imaging…

While simulation tools for visible light communication (VLC) with photo detectors (PDs) have been widely investigated, similar tools for optical camera communication (OCC) with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Srivathsan Chakaravarthi Narasimman , Arokiaswami Alphones