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Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Andrew Ho , Genia Vogman

Large-scale numerical simulations often come at the expense of daunting computations. High-Performance Computing has enhanced the process, but adapting legacy codes to leverage parallel GPU computations remains challenging. Meanwhile,…

Linear Programs (LPs) appear in a large number of applications and offloading them to the GPU is viable to gain performance. Existing work on offloading and solving an LP on GPU suggests that performance is gained from large sized LPs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Amit Gurung , Rajarshi Ray

Boundary element methods produce dense linear systems that can be accelerated via multipole expansions. Solved with Krylov methods, this implies computing the matrix-vector products within each iteration with some error, at an accuracy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Tingyu Wang , Simon K. Layton , Lorena A. Barba

This paper gives an analysis and an evaluation of linear algebra operations on Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) with complex number arithmetics with double precision. Knowing the performance of these operations, iterative Krylov methods are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Frederic Magoules

Krylov methods are a key way of solving large sparse linear systems of equations, but suffer from poor strong scalabilty on distributed memory machines. This is due to high synchronization costs from large numbers of collective…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Shelby Lockhart , Amanda Bienz , William Gropp , Luke Olson

We develop a matrix-free Full Approximation Storage (FAS) multigrid solver based on staggered finite differences and implemented on GPU in MATLAB. To enhance performance, intermediate variables are reused, and an X-shape Multi-Color…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Jiale Meng , Shuqi Tang , Steven M. Wise , Zhenlin Guo

Reinforcement learning (RL) workloads take a notoriously long time to train due to the large number of samples collected at run-time from simulators. Unfortunately, cluster scale-up approaches remain expensive, and commonly used CPU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 James Gleeson , Daniel Snider , Yvonne Yang , Moshe Gabel , Eyal de Lara , Gennady Pekhimenko

We present a fast block direct solver for the unified dynamic simulations of power systems. This solver uses a novel Q-learning based method for task scheduling. Unified dynamic simulations of power systems represent a method in which the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Yingshi Chen , Xinli Song , HanYang Dai , Tao Liu , Wuzhi Zhong , Guoyang Wu

As the size of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models and datasets grows, the memory bandwidth becomes a critical bottleneck. The paper presents a novel extended memory hierarchy that addresses some major memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jordi Altayo , Paul Delestrac , David Novo , Simey Yang , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Francky Catthoor

Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are getting increasingly important as target architectures in scientific High Performance Computing (HPC). NVIDIA established CUDA as a parallel computing architecture controlling and making use of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-05-12 Frank Winter

Batched linear solvers play a vital role in computational sciences, especially in the fields of plasma physics and combustion simulations. With the imminent deployment of the Aurora Supercomputer and other upcoming systems equipped with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Phuong Nguyen , Pratik Nayak , Hartwig Anzt

Cost of serving large language models (LLM) is high, but the expensive and scarce GPUs are poorly efficient when generating tokens sequentially, unless the batch of sequences is enlarged. However, the batch size is limited by some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiaao He , Jidong Zhai

The dominant cost of most lattice QCD simulations is the inversion of the Dirac operator required to calculate the force term in the RHMC update. One way to improve this situation is to use multiple pseudofermions, which reduces the size…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-10-24 Philippe de Forcrand , Liam Keegan

Three complementary methods have been implemented in the code Denovo that accelerate neutral particle transport calculations with methods that use leadership-class computers fully and effectively: a multigroup block (MG) Krylov solver, a…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-12-14 R. N. Slaybaugh , M. Ramirez-Zweiger , Tara Pandya , Steven Hamilton , T. M. Evans

This work presents a GPU-accelerated solver for the unit commitment (UC) problem in large-scale power grids. The solver uses the Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm to efficiently solve the relaxed linear subproblem, achieving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Hussein Sharadga , Javad Mohammadi

Linear system solving is a key tool for computational power system studies, e.g., optimal power flow, transmission switching, or unit commitment. CPU-based linear system solver speeds, however, have saturated in recent years. Emerging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Samuel Chevalier , Robert Parker

GPUs have significantly accelerated first-order methods for large-scale optimization, especially in continuous optimization. However, this success has not transferred cleanly to problems with discrete variables, combinatorial structure, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiachang Liu , Andrea Lodi

We accelerate many-flavor lattice QCD simulations using multiple GPUs. Multiple pseudo-fermion fields are introduced additively and independently for each flavor in the many-flavor HMC algorithm. Using the independence of each…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-01-27 M. Hayakawa , K. -I. Ishikawa , Y. Osaki , S. Takeda , S. Uno , N. Yamada

We present cudaclaw, a CUDA-based high performance data-parallel framework for the solution of multidimensional hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE) systems, equations describing wave motion. cudaclaw allows computational…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-05-24 H. Gorune Ohannessian , George Turkiyyah , Aron Ahmadia , David Ketcheson