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We present a multi-purpose genetic algorithm, designed and implemented with GPGPU / CUDA parallel computing technology. The model was derived from our CPU serial implementation, named GAME (Genetic Algorithm Model Experiment). It was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Stefano Cavuoti , Mauro Garofalo , Massimo Brescia , Maurizio Paolillo , Antonio Pescape' , Giuseppe Longo , Giorgio Ventre

The Bluebild algorithm is a new technique for image synthesis in radio astronomy which decomposes the sky into distinct energy levels using functional principal component analysis. These levels can be linearly combined to construct a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Emma Tolley , Simon Frasch , Etienne Orliac , Shreyam Krishna , Michele Bianco , Sepand Kashani , Paul Hurley , Matthieu Simeoni , Jean-Paul Kneib

The Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is a powerful tool for parallel computing. In the past years the performance and capabilities of GPUs have increased, and the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) - a parallel computing architecture…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-12-17 Ferenc Molnar , Tamas Szakaly , Robert Meszaros , Istvan Lagzi

This paper introduces a distributed, GPU-centric experience replay system, GEAR, designed to perform scalable reinforcement learning (RL) with large sequence models (such as transformers). With such models, existing systems such as Reverb…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hanjing Wang , Man-Kit Sit , Congjie He , Ying Wen , Weinan Zhang , Jun Wang , Yaodong Yang , Luo Mai

We propose a programming technology that bridges cross-platform compatibility and hardware acceleration in ray tracing applications. Our methodology enables developers to define algorithms while our translator manages implementation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Vladimir Frolov , Vadim Sanzharov , Garifullin Albert , Maxim Raenchuk , Alexei Voloboy

Astrophysical radio signals are excellent probes of extreme physical processes that emit them. However, to reach Earth, electromagnetic radiation passes through the ionised interstellar medium (ISM), introducing a frequency-dependent time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-10 Jan Novotný , Karel Adámek , M. A. Clark , Mike Giles , Wesley Armour

In this paper, we present a GPU-accelerated prototype implementation of a portable ultrasound imaging pipeline on an Nvidia CLARA AGX development kit. The raw data is acquired with nonsteered plane wave transmit using a programmable…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 V. Arun Kumar , A. N. Madhavanunni , Mahesh Raveendranatha Panicker

We demonstrate that buffer-gas cooling combined with laser ablation can be used to create coherent optical media with high optical depth and low Doppler broadening that offers metastable states with low collisional and motional decoherence.…

Interferometric calibration always yields non unique solutions. It is therefore essential to remove these ambiguities before the solutions could be used in any further modeling of the sky, the instrument or propagation effects such as the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Sarod Yatawatta

Partial wave analysis is a core tool in hadron spectroscopy. With the high statistics data available at facilities such as the Beijing Spectrometer III, this procedure becomes computationally very expensive. We have successfully implemented…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-30 Niklaus Berger

We present a novel computational framework that connects Blue Waters, the NSF-supported, leadership-class supercomputer operated by NCSA, to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Data Grid via Open Science Grid…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-30 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Edgar Fajardo , Daniel S. Katz , Stuart Anderson , Peter Couvares , Josh Willis , Timothy Bouvet , Jeremy Enos , William T. C. Kramer , Hon Wai Leong , David Wheeler

The previous generation of astronomical instruments tended to consist of single receivers in the focal point of one or more physical reflectors. Because of this, most astronomical data sets were small enough that the raw data could easily…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-30 Yan Guillaume Grange , Kevin Vinsen , Juan Carlos Guzman , José Alfredo Parra , Jan David Mol , Rosly Renil , Christoper Schollar

The study of transient and variable low-frequency radio sources is a key goal for LOFAR, with an extremely broad science case ranging from relativistic jets sources to pulsars, exoplanets, radio bursts at cosmological distances, the…

Inferring cosmological parameters from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data requires repeated and computationally expensive calculations of theoretical angular power spectra using Boltzmann solvers like CAMB. This creates a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 L. Storchi , P. Campeti , M. Lattanzi , N. Antonini , E. Calore , P. Lubrano

Relativistic jets generated in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) produce luminous transient events, yet the fundamentals of jet composition and radiation mechanisms remain unclear. One means of identifying a magnetically-dominated outflow would be…

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope is an international aperture synthesis radio telescope used to study the Universe at low frequencies. One of the goals of the LOFAR telescope is to conduct deep wide-field surveys. Here we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 A. P. Mechev , J. B. R. Oonk , A. Danezi , T. W. Shimwell , C. Schrijvers , H. T. Intema , A. Plaat , H. J. A. Röttgering

Relatively little information is available about the Universe at ultra-low radio frequencies, i.e. below 50 MHz (ULF), although the ULF spectral window contains a wealth of unique diagnostics for studying galactic and extragalactic…

For almost a century, since Bernal\'s attempts at a molecular theory of liquid structure(Bernal [1]), correlation functions have been the bridge to compare theoretical calculations with experimental measurements in the study of disordered…

Purpose: Radio-frequency ablations play an important role in the therapy of malignant liver lesions. The navigation of a needle to the lesion poses a challenge for both the trainees and intervening physicians. Methods: This publication…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Niclas Kath , Heinz Handels , Andre Mastmeyer

The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT) is a pan-European radio interferometer with baselines up to 2,000 km. This provides sub-arcsecond resolution at frequencies of <200 MHz. Since starting science operations in 2012, the ILT has carried…