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Some methods based on simple regularizing geometric element transformations have heuristically been shown to give runtime efficient and quality effective smoothing algorithms for meshes. We describe the mathematical framework and a…

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We propose a new algorithm for the design of topologically optimized lightweight structures, under a minimum compliance requirement. The new process enhances a standard level set formulation in terms of computational efficiency, thanks to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Davide Cortellessa , Nicola Ferro , Simona Perotto , Stefano Micheletti

We describe a simple yet highly parallel method for re-indexing "indexed" data sets like triangle meshes or unstructured-mesh data sets -- which is useful for operations such as removing duplicate or un-used vertices, merging different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Ingo Wald

Data processing systems offer an ever increasing degree of parallelism on the levels of cores, CPUs, and processing nodes. Query optimization must exploit high degrees of parallelism in order not to gradually become the bottleneck of query…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

In high-performance computing, hotspot GPU kernels are primary bottlenecks, and expert manual tuning is costly and hard to port. Large language model methods often assume kernels can be compiled and executed cheaply, which fails in large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ruifan Chu , Anbang Wang , Xiuxiu Bai , Shuai Liu , Xiaoshe Dong

Evaluating high-dimensional integrals via deep hierarchical recurrences is a dominant cost in quantum chemistry. While CPUs manage these efficiently, GPUs suffer a critical mismatch: limited per-thread memory is quickly overwhelmed by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Yihong Zhang , Xinran Wei , Junshi Chen , Fusong Ju , Wei Hu , Jinlong Yang , Huanhuan Xia

Bio-Inspired Algorithms on Road Traffic Congestion and safety is a very promising research problem. Searching for an efficient optimization method to increase the degree of speed optimization and thereby increasing the traffic Flow in an…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Prasun Ghosal , Arijit Chakraborty , Sabyasachee Banerjee , Satabdi Barman

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a stochastic technique for solving the optimization problem. Attempts have been made to shorten the computation times of PSO based algorithms with massive threads on GPUs (graphic processing units),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chuan-Chi Wang , Chun-Yen Ho , Chia-Heng Tu , Shih-Hao Hung

Sequential robot manipulation tasks require finding collision-free trajectories that satisfy geometric constraints across multiple object interactions in potentially high-dimensional configuration spaces. Solving these problems in real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Lucas Chen , Shrutheesh Raman Iyer , Zachary Kingston

This work concerns the analysis and design of distributed first-order optimization algorithms over time-varying graphs. The goal of such algorithms is to optimize a global function that is the average of local functions using only local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Akhil Sundararajan , Bryan Van Scoy , Laurent Lessard

GPUs offer massive compute parallelism and high-bandwidth memory accesses. GPU database systems seek to exploit those capabilities to accelerate data analytics. Although modern GPUs have more resources (e.g., higher DRAM bandwidth) than…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Jiashen Cao , Rathijit Sen , Matteo Interlandi , Joy Arulraj , Hyesoon Kim

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a key kernel for unsupervised dimension reduction used in a wide range of applications, including topic modeling, recommender systems and bioinformatics. Due to the compute-intensive nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Gordon E. Moon , Aravind Sukumaran-Rajam , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , P. Sadayappan

Partitioning graphs into blocks of roughly equal size such that few edges run between blocks is a frequently needed operation when processing graphs on a parallel computer. When a topology of a distributed system is known an important task…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Marcelo Fonseca Faraj , Alexander van der Grinten , Henning Meyerhenke , Jesper Larsson Träff , Christian Schulz

With the growth of data and necessity for distributed optimization methods, solvers that work well on a single machine must be re-designed to leverage distributed computation. Recent work in this area has been limited by focusing heavily on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-04 Chenxin Ma , Jakub Konečný , Martin Jaggi , Virginia Smith , Michael I. Jordan , Peter Richtárik , Martin Takáč

Hierarchical matrix approximations have gained significant traction in the machine learning and scientific community as they exploit available low-rank structures in kernel methods to compress the kernel matrix. The resulting compressed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Bangtian Liu , Kazem Cheshmi , Saeed Soori , Michelle Mills Strout , Maryam Mehri Dehnavi

Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) is becoming a prevalent data representation for scientific visualization. Resulting from large fluid mechanics simulations, the data is usually cell centric, imposing a number of challenges for high quality…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Stefan Zellmann , Qi Wu , Alper Sahistan , Kwan-Liu Ma , Ingo Wald

Transmission Topology Optimization has great potential to improve efficiency and flexibility of grid operations through non-costly switching actions, but previous approaches struggle with runtime performance and scalability. In this work,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Nico Westerbeck , Leonard Hilfrich , Dirk Witthaut

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

Applications with low data reuse and frequent irregular memory accesses, such as graph or sparse linear algebra workloads, fail to scale well due to memory bottlenecks and poor core utilization. While prior work with prefetching,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Marcelo Orenes-Vera , Esin Tureci , David Wentzlaff , Margaret Martonosi

Computed Tomography (CT) is a key 3D imaging technology that fundamentally relies on the compute-intense back-projection operation to generate 3D volumes. GPUs are typically used for back-projection in production CT devices. However, with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Peng Chen , Mohamed Wahib , Xiao Wang , Shinichiro Takizawa , Takahiro Hirofuchi , Hirotaka Ogawa , Satoshi Matsuoka