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Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nathan X. Marshak , Kathlynn Simotas , Zarija Lukić , Hyunbae Park , James Ahrens , Chris R. Johnson

Detailed modeling of the evolution of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization, $5 \leq z \leq 20$, is critical in interpreting the cosmological signals from current and upcoming 21-cm experiments such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Patrick Hirling , Michele Bianco , Sambit K. Giri , Ilian T. Iliev , Garrelt Mellema , Jean-Paul Kneib

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the transfer of diffuse radiation on three-dimensional mesh grids which is efficient on processors with highly parallel architecture such as recently popular GPUs and CPUs with multi- and many-core…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Satoshi Tanaka , Kohji Yoshikawa , Takashi Okamoto , Kenji Hasegawa

Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Yutong Qin , Jianbiao Lin , Xiang Huang

We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

We present an implementation of an adaptive ray tracing (ART) module in the Athena hydrodynamics code that accurately and efficiently handles the radiative transfer involving multiple point sources on a three-dimensional Cartesian grid. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeong-Gyu Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , M. Aaron Skinner

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair

Radiative transfer modelling is part of many astrophysical simulations and is used to make synthetic observations and to assist analysis of observations. We concentrate on the modelling of the radio lines emitted by the interstellar medium.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 M. Juvela

This paper presents a realization of the approach to spatial 3D stereo of visualization of 3D images with use parallel Graphics processing unit (GPU). The experiments of realization of synthesis of images of a 3D stage by a method of trace…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Anas M. Al-Oraiqat , S. A. Zori

In this paper we describe and demonstrate a C++ code written to determine the trajectory of particles traversing oriented single crystals and a CUDA code written to evaluate the radiation spectra from charged particles with arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Christian Flohr Nielsen

We study ray reordering as a tool for increasing the performance of existing GPU ray tracing implementations. We focus on ray reordering that is fully agnostic to the particular trace kernel. We summarize the existing methods for computing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Daniel Meister , Jakub Bokšanský , Michael Guthe , Jiří Bittner

Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement (Structured AMR) enables simulations to adapt the domain resolution to save computation and storage, and has become one of the dominant data representations used by scientific simulations; however,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Ingo Wald , Stefan Zellmann , Will Usher , Nate Morrical , Ulrich Lang , Valerio Pascucci

Emission and absorption line features are important diagnostics for the physics underlying extragalactic astronomy. The interpretation of observed signatures involves comparing against forward modeled spectra from galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson

This paper presents a computationally efficient implementation of a Hamming code decoder on a graphics processing unit (GPU) to support real-time software-defined radio (SDR), which is a software alternative for realizing wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-23 Shohidul Islam , Cheol-Hong Kim , Jong-Myon Kim

Ray tracing accelerated with graphics processing units (GPUs) is an accurate and efficient simulation technique of wireless communication channels. In this paper, we extend a GPU-accelerated ray tracer (RT) to support the effects of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Sara Sandh , Hamed Radpour , Benjamin Rainer , Markus Hofer , Thomas Zemen

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

Computing on graphics processing units (GPUs) has become standard in scientific computing, allowing for incredible performance gains over classical CPUs for many computational methods. As GPUs were originally designed for 3D rendering, they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Algis David , Bérenger Bramas

We investigate the concept of rendering production-style content with full path tracing in a data-distributed fashion -- that is, with multiple collaborating nodes and/or GPUs that each store only part of the model. In particular, we…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Ingo Wald , Steven G Parker

This paper presents an implementation of radio astronomy imaging algorithms on modern High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures, exploiting distributed memory parallelism and acceleration throughout multiple GPUs. Our code, called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-13 Emanuele De Rubeis , Giovanni Lacopo , Claudio Gheller , Luca Tornatore , Giuliano Taffoni

We describe a novel adaptive ray tracing scheme to solve the equation of radiative transfer around point sources in hydrodynamical simulations. The angular resolution adapts to the local hydrodynamical resolution and hence is of use for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tom Abel , Benjamin D. Wandelt
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