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We describe the first parallel implementation of an adaptive particle-particle, particle-mesh code with smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Parallelisation of the serial code, ``Hydra'', is achieved by using CRAFT, a Cray proprietary language…

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General Purpose computing on Graphical Processing Units (GPGPU) has resulted in unprecedented levels of speedup over its CPU counterparts, allowing programmers to harness the computational power of GPU shader cores to accelerate other…

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We describe an implementation of compressible inviscid fluid solvers with block-structured adaptive mesh refinement on Graphics Processing Units using NVIDIA's CUDA. We show that a class of high resolution shock capturing schemes can be…

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We discuss an implementation of our 3D radiative transfer (3DRT) framework with the OpenCL paradigm for general GPU computing. We implement the kernel for solving the 3DRT problem in Cartesian coordinates with periodic boundary conditions…

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EMMA is a cosmological simulation code aimed at investigating the reionization epoch. It handles simultaneously collisionless and gas dynamics, as well as radiative transfer physics using a moment-based description with the M1…

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We ported to the GPU with CUDA the Astrometric Verification Unit-Global Sphere Reconstruction (AVU-GSR) Parallel Solver developed for the ESA Gaia mission, by optimizing a previous OpenACC porting of this application. The code aims to find,…

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Open-source simulation tools play a crucial role for neuromorphic application engineers and hardware architects to investigate performance bottlenecks and explore design optimizations before committing to silicon. Reconfigurable…

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We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

3D detailed radiative transfer is computationally taxing, since the solution of the radiative transfer equation involves traversing the six dimensional phase space of the 3D domain. With modern supercomputers the hardware available for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

Curve & Lookup Table (LUT) based methods directly map a pixel to the target output, making them highly efficient tools for real-time photography processing. However, due to extreme memory complexity to learn full RGB space mapping, existing…

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We present the newly developed code, GAMER (GPU-accelerated Adaptive MEsh Refinement code), which has adopted a novel approach to improve the performance of adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) astrophysical simulations by a large factor with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-08 Hsi-Yu Schive , Yu-Chih Tsai , Tzihong Chiueh

We present an algorithm for solving the radiative transfer problem on massively parallel computers using adaptive mesh refinement and domain decomposition. The solver is based on the method of characteristics which requires an adaptive…

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Localization is an essential component for autonomous robots. A well-established localization approach combines ray casting with a particle filter, leading to a computationally expensive algorithm that is difficult to run on…

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Scientific optical 3D modeling requires the possibility to implement highly flexible and customizable mathematical models as well as high computing power. However, established ray tracing software for optical design and modeling purposes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andrej Keksel , Samuel Schmidt , Dietrich Beck , Jörg Seewig

Three-dimensional neutron transport calculations using the Method of Characteristics (MOC) are highly regarded for their exceptional computational efficiency, precision, and stability. Nevertheless, when dealing with extensive-scale…

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Modern supercomputers are increasingly relying on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and other accelerators to achieve exa-scale performance at reasonable energy usage. The challenge of exploiting these accelerators is the incompatibility…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 M. Cianciosa , D. Batchelor , W. Elwasif

Penetration depth calculation quantifies the extent of overlap between two objects and is crucial in fields like simulations, the metaverse, and robotics. Recognizing its significance, efforts have been made to accelerate this computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 YoungWoo Kim , Sungmin Kwon , Duksu Kim

In this paper, we implemented both sequential and parallel version of fractal image compression algorithms using CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming model for parallelizing the program in Graphics Processing Unit for…

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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…

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