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In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-13 Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange , Marc A. Suchard

We introduce FastGraph, a novel GPU-optimized k-nearest neighbor algorithm specifically designed to accelerate graph construction in low-dimensional spaces (2-10 dimensions), critical for high-performance graph neural networks. Our method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Aarush Agarwal , Raymond He , Jan Kieseler , Matteo Cremonesi , Shah Rukh Qasim

We investigate GPU-based parallelization of Iterative-Deepening A* (IDA*). We show that straightforward thread-based parallelization techniques which were previously proposed for massively parallel SIMD processors perform poorly due to warp…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Satoru Horie , Alex Fukunaga

The future of computation is the Graphical Processing Unit, i.e. the GPU. The promise that the graphics cards have shown in the field of image processing and accelerated rendering of 3D scenes, and the computational capability that these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-21 Jayshree Ghorpade , Jitendra Parande , Madhura Kulkarni , Amit Bawaskar

GPU architectural simulation is orders of magnitude slower than native execution, necessitating workload sampling for practical speedups. Existing methods rely on hand-crafted features with limited expressiveness, yielding either aggressive…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Wang , Jingwei Sun , Jiyu Luo , Han Li , Guangzhong Sun

Computing on graphics processors is maybe one of the most important developments in computational science to happen in decades. Not since the arrival of the Beowulf cluster, which combined open source software with commodity hardware to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , Simon K. Layton , Lorena A. Barba

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

We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

FPGA is appropriate for fix-point neural networks computing due to high power efficiency and configurability. However, its design must be intensively refined to achieve high performance using limited hardware resources. We present an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Qingyang Yi , Heming Sun , Masahiro Fujita

Heterogeneous architectures can deliver higher performance and energy efficiency than symmetric counterparts by using multiple architectures tuned to different types of workloads. While previous works focused on CPUs, this work extends the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Aurora Tomás , Juan Luis Aragón , Joan Manuel Parcerisa , Antonio González

The simulation of the two-dimensional Ising model is used as a benchmark to show the computational capabilities of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The rich programming environment now available on GPUs and flexible hardware capabilities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Joshua Romero , Mauro Bisson , Massimiliano Fatica , Massimo Bernaschi

We present a novel GPU-accelerated implementation of the QuickHull algorihtm for calculating convex hulls of planar point sets. We also describe a practical solution to demonstrate how to efficiently implement a typical Divide-and-Conquer…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Jiayin Zhang , Gang Mei , Nengxiong Xu , Kunyang Zhao

Genetic Programming (GP) is a computationally intensive technique which also has a high degree of natural parallelism. Parallel computing architectures have become commonplace especially with regards Graphics Processing Units (GPU). Hence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Darren M. Chitty

The main objective of this work consists in analyzing sub-structuring method for the parallel solution of sparse linear systems with matrices arising from the discretization of partial differential equations such as finite element, finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Frédéric Magoulès

The vision of super computer at every desk can be realized by powerful and highly parallel CPUs or GPUs or APUs. Graphics processors once specialized for the graphics applications only, are now used for the highly computational intensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Chittampally Vasanth Raja , Srinivas Balasubramanian , Prakash S Raghavendra

In this paper, we report an optimized union-find (UF) algorithm that can label the connected components on a 2D image efficiently by employing the GPU architecture. The proposed method contains three phases: UF-based local merge, boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Jun Chen , Qiang Yao , Houari Sabirin , Keisuke Nonaka , Hiroshi Sankoh , Sei Naito

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables the processing of encrypted data without decrypting it. FHE has garnered significant attention over the past decade as it supports secure outsourcing of data processing to remote cloud services.…

Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) is a state-of-the-art machine learning method based on evolutionary computation. GSGP performs search operations directly at the level of program semantics, which can be done more efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Leonardo Trujillo , Jose Manuel Muñoz Contreras , Daniel E Hernandez , Mauro Castelli , Juan J Tapia

Large scale-free graphs are famously difficult to process efficiently: the skewed vertex degree distribution makes it difficult to obtain balanced partitioning. Our research instead aims to turn this into an advantage by partitioning the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Scott Sallinen , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu