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One of the current challenges in physically-based simulations, and, more specifically, fluid simulations, is to produce visually appealing results at interactive rates, capable of being used in multiple forms of media. In recent times, a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Pedro Centeno , João Madeiras Pereira

An existing hybrid MPI-OpenMP scheme is augmented with a CUDA-based fine grain parallelization approach for multidimensional distributed Fourier transforms, in a well-characterized pseudospectral fluid turbulence code. Basics of the hybrid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Duane Rosenberg , Pablo D. Mininni , Raghu Reddy , Annick Pouquet

We have two basic methods of modeling matter. We can treat matter as a continuum and solve differential equations or we can treat it discretely and solve massive N-body problems. The differential equations produced by meaningful problems…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-01-29 Billy J. Fournier , Bryant M. Wyatt

In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GraCCA system, a Graphic-Card Cluster for Astrophysics simulations. It consists of 16 nodes, with each node equipped with 2 modern graphic cards, the NVIDIA GeForce 8800…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hsi-Yu Schive , Chia-Hung Chien , Shing-Kwong Wong , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

We present a new parallel code for computing the dynamical evolution of collisional N-body systems with up to N~10^7 particles. Our code is based on the the Henon Monte Carlo method for solving the Fokker-Planck equation, and makes…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Bharath Pattabiraman , Stefan Umbreit , Wei-Keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Vassiliki Kalogera , Gokhan Memik , Frederic A. Rasio

We present a novel convex formulation that weakly couples the Material Point Method (MPM) with rigid body dynamics through frictional contact, optimized for efficient GPU parallelization. Our approach features an asynchronous time-splitting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chang Yu , Wenxin Du , Zeshun Zong , Alejandro Castro , Chenfanfu Jiang , Xuchen Han

Furthering our understanding of many of today's interesting problems in plasma physics---including plasma based acceleration and magnetic reconnection with pair production due to quantum electrodynamic effects---requires large-scale kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kyle G. Miller , Roman P. Lee , Adam Tableman , Anton Helm , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Viktor K. Decyk , Warren B. Mori

We present a new particle-based (discrete element) numerical method for the simulation of granular dynamics, with application to motions of particles on small solar system body and planetary surfaces. The method employs the parallel N-body…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-12 Derek C. Richardson , Kevin J. Walsh , Naomi Murdoch , Patrick Michel

We modified a MPI-friendly density functional theory (DFT) source code within hybrid parallelization including CUDA. Our objective is to find out how simple conversions within the hybrid parallelization with mid-range GPUs affect DFT code…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Jae-Hyeon Parq , Erik Sevre , Sang-Mook Lee

Cosmological large scale structure $N$-body simulations are computation-light, memory-heavy problems in supercomputing. The considerable amount of memory is usually dominated by an inefficient way of storing more than sufficient phase space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Hao-Ran Yu , Ue-Li Pen , Xin Wang

We propose a new hybrid topology optimization algorithm based on multigrid approach that combines the parallelization strategy of CPU using OpenMP and heavily multithreading capabilities of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU). In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Arya Prakash Padhi , Souvik Chakraborty , Anupam Chakrabarti , Rajib Chowdhury

Numerical studies of shock waves in large scale systems via kinetic simulations with millions of particles are too computationally demanding to be processed in serial. In this work we focus on optimizing the parallel performance of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Jim Howell , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Alec Staber , Irina Sagert , Terrance Strother

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

We present a novel, GPU-optimized algorithm for particle-mesh interactions in grid-based hydrodynamics simulations, designed for massively parallel architectures. This approach overcomes the inefficiency of particle neighbour searches or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Chong-Chong He , Benjamin D. Wibking , Aditi Vijayan , Mark R. Krumholz , Pak Shing Li

Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing is becoming an alternate computing platform for numerical simulations. However, it is not clear which numerical scheme will provide the highest computational efficiency for different types of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Ben J. Zimmerman , Jonathan D. Regele , Bong Wie

The aim of this work is to quantitatively evaluate the impact of computation on the energy consumption on ARM MPSoC platforms, exploiting CPUs, embedded GPUs and FPGAs. One of them possibly represents the future of High Performance…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-11-01 D. Goz , G. Ieronymakis , V. Papaefstathiou , N. Dimou , S. Bertocco , A. Ragagnin , L. Tornatore , G. Taffoni , I. Coretti

Accurate and efficient thermal dynamics models of permanent magnet synchronous motors are vital to efficient thermal management strategies. Physics-informed methods combine model-based and data-driven methods, offering greater flexibility…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Xinyuan Liao , Shaowei Chen , Shuai Zhao

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high performance co-processors originally intended to improve the use and quality of computer graphics applications. Once, researchers and practitioners noticed the potential of using GPU for general…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-12 K. Parand , Saeed Zafarvahedian , Sayyed A. Hossayni

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are having a transformational effect on numerical lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) calculations of importance in nuclear and particle physics. The QUDA library provides a package of mixed precision…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-06 Ronald Babich , Michael A. Clark , Bálint Joó

High-performance graphical processing units (GPU) are used for the repeated parallelised propagation of non-linear partial differential equations on large spatio-temporal grids. The main challenge results as a combination of the requirement…

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