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Rendering realistic images with global illumination is a computationally demanding task and often requires dedicated hardware for feasible runtime. Recent research uses Deep Neural Networks to predict indirect lighting on image level, but…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Giulio Jiang , Bernhard Kainz

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

We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

We present a new numerical method for calculating the transfer of ionizing radiation, called C^2-Ray=Conservative, Causal Ray-tracing method. The method is explicitly photon-conserving, so the depletion of ionizing photons by bound-free…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Garrelt Mellema , Ilian T. Iliev , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro

We present our experience of porting the code used in the wave-packet convergent-close-coupling (WP-CCC) approach to run on NVIDIA V100 and AMD MI250X GPUs. The WP-CCC approach is a method used in the field of ion-atom collision physics to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 I. B. Abdurakhmanov , N. W. Antonio , M. Cytowski , A. S. Kadyrov

We have developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer method designed specifically for use with parallel adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamics codes. This new algorithm, which we call hybrid characteristics, introduces a novel form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Erik-Jan Rijkhorst , Tomasz Plewa , Anshu Dubey , Garrelt Mellema

We present a new three-dimensional radiative transfer (RT) code, RADAMESH, based on a ray-tracing, photon-conserving and adaptive (in space and time) scheme. RADAMESH uses a novel Monte Carlo approach to sample the radiation field within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sebastiano Cantalupo , Cristiano Porciani

By building on recent advances in the use of randomized trace estimation to drastically reduce the memory footprint of adjoint-state methods, we present and validate an imaging approach that can be executed exclusively on accelerators.…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Mathias Louboutin , Felix J. Herrmann

Optimizing charged-particle track reconstruction algorithms is crucial for efficient event reconstruction in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments due to their significant computational demands. Existing track reconstruction algorithms…

X-ray ptychography imaging at synchrotron facilities like the Advanced Photon Source (APS) involves controlling instrument hardwares to collect a set of diffraction patterns from overlapping coherent illumination spots on extended samples,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-10 Ke Yue , Junjing Deng , Yi Jiang , Youssef Nashed , David Vine , Stefan Vogt

An adaptive FPGA architecture based on the NoC (Network-on-Chip) approach is used for the multispectral image correlation. This architecture must contain several distance algorithms depending on the characteristics of spectral images and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Linlin Zhang , Anne Claire Legrand , Virginie Fresse , Viktor Fischer

Ptychography is an emerging imaging technique that is able to provide wavelength-limited spatial resolution from specimen with extended lateral dimensions. As a scanning microscopy method, a typical two-dimensional image requires a number…

We present efficient implementations of atom reconfiguration algorithms for both CPUs and GPUs, along with a batching routine to merge displacement operations for parallel execution. Leveraging graph-theoretic methods, our approach derives…

We describe RAGE, the ``Radiation Adaptive Grid Eulerian'' radiation-hydrodynamics code, including its data structures, its parallelization strategy and performance, its hydrodynamic algorithm(s), its (gray) radiation diffusion algorithm,…

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

Recent years have witnessed a rapid advancement in GPU technology, establishing it as a formidable high-performance parallel computing technology with superior floating-point computational capabilities compared to traditional CPUs. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xinyao Yi , Yuxin Qiao

To define and identify a region-of-interest (ROI) in a digital image, the shape descriptor of the ROI has to be described in terms of its boundary characteristics. To address the generic issues of contour tracking, the yConvex Hypergraph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-10 Saurabh Jha , Tejaswi Agarwal , B. Rajesh Kanna

Analog neuromorphic photonic processors are uniquely positioned to harness the ultrafast bandwidth and inherent parallelism of light, enabling scalability, on-chip integration and significant improvement in computational performance.…

Gridding operation, which is to map non-uniform data samples onto a uniformly distributedgrid, is one of the key steps in radio astronomical data reduction process. One of the mainbottlenecks of gridding is the poor computing performance,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-14 Hao Wang , Ce Yu , Bo Zhang , Jian Xiao , Qi Luo

We present describe a new computer code that solves the radiative transfer problem on multi-resolution grids. If the cloud model is from an MHD simulation on a regular cartesian grid, criteria based for example on local density or velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela , P. Padoan