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Data management on GPUs has become increasingly relevant due to a tremendous rise in processing power and available GPU memory. Similar to main-memory systems, there is a need for performant GPU-resident index structures to speed up query…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Justus Henneberg , Felix Schuhknecht

Scientific optical 3D modeling requires the possibility to implement highly flexible and customizable mathematical models as well as high computing power. However, established ray tracing software for optical design and modeling purposes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andrej Keksel , Samuel Schmidt , Dietrich Beck , Jörg Seewig

Image- and data-parallel rendering across multiple nodes on high-performance computing systems is widely used in visualization to provide higher frame rates, support large data sets, and render data in situ. Specifically for in situ…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Will Usher , Ingo Wald , Jefferson Amstutz , Johannes Günther , Carson Brownlee , Valerio Pascucci

Modeling data sharing in GPU programs is a challenging task because of the massive parallelism and complex data sharing patterns provided by GPU architectures. Better GPU caching efficiency can be achieved through careful task scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Lingda Li , Ari B. Hayes , Stephen A. Hackler , Eddy Z. Zhang , Mario Szegedy , Shuaiwen Leon Song

Graph coloring has been broadly used to discover concurrency in parallel computing. To speedup graph coloring for large-scale datasets, parallel algorithms have been proposed to leverage modern GPUs. Existing GPU implementations either have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Xuhao Chen , Pingfan Li , Jianbin Fang , Tao Tang , Zhiying Wang , Canqun Yang

Path-Guiding algorithms for sampling scattering directions can drastically decrease the variance of Monte Carlo estimators of Light Transport Equation, but their usage was limited to offline rendering because of memory and computational…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mikhail Derevyannykh

We present an improved inverse ray-shooting code based on GPUs for generating microlensing magnification maps. In addition to introducing GPUs for acceleration, we put the efforts in two aspects: (i) A standard circular lens plane is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Wenwen Zheng , Xuechun Chen , Guoliang Li , Hou-zun Chen

Splotch is a rendering algorithm for exploration and visual discovery in particle-based datasets coming from astronomical observations or numerical simulations. The strengths of the approach are production of high quality imagery and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-23 Marzia Rivi , Claudio Gheller , Tim Dykes , Mel Krokos , Klaus Dolag

Correlation Plenoptic Imaging (CPI) is a novel technological imaging modality enabling to overcome drawbacks of standard plenoptic devices, while preserving their advantages. However, a major challenge in view of real-time application of…

We present a novel, hardware rasterized rendering approach for ray-based 3D Gaussian Splatting (RayGS), obtaining both fast and high-quality results for novel view synthesis. Our work contains a mathematically rigorous and geometrically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Samuel Rota Bulò , Nemanja Bartolovic , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

Panoramic video is a sort of video recorded at the same point of view to record the full scene. With the development of video surveillance and the requirement for 3D converged video surveillance in smart cities, CPU and GPU are required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Chengyao Du , Jingling Yuan , Jiansheng Dong , Lin Li , Mincheng Chen , Tao Li

Accurately measuring the translations of objects between images is essential in many fields, including biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics. One important application is tracking one or more particles by measuring their apparent…

Recent research on ray tracing cores has explored repurposing these cores to solve non-graphical problems by reformulating them as geometric queries, leveraging the inherent parallelism of ray tracing. Although successful in specific cases,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Enzo Meneses , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Héctor Ferrada , Konstantin Verichev , Cristian Salazar-Concha

This article introduces a novel methodology for the massive parallelization of projection-based depths, addressing the computational challenges of data depth in high-dimensional spaces. We propose an algorithmic framework based on Refined…

Computation · Statistics 2025-06-11 Leonardo Leone , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , David Bounie

Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

The LHC experiments are designed to detect large amount of physics events produced with a very high rate. Considering the future upgrades, the data acquisition rate will become even higher and new computing paradigms must be adopted for…

3D Gaussian splatting has been widely adopted as a 3D representation for novel-view synthesis, relighting, and 3D generation tasks. It delivers realistic and detailed results through a collection of explicit 3D Gaussian primitives, each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xin Sun , Iliyan Georgiev , Yun Fei , Miloš Hašan

The Ray-Casting algorithm is an important method for fast real-time surface display from 3D medical images. Based on the Ray-Casting algorithm, a novel parallel Ray-Casting algorithm is proposed in this paper. A novel operation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Yan Zhang , Peng Gao , Xiao-Qing Li

A technique is presented for producing synthetic images from numerical simulations whereby the image resolution is adapted around prominent features. In so doing, adaptive image ray-tracing (AIR) improves the efficiency of a calculation by…

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