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High performance computing has been used in various fields of astrophysical research. But most of it is implemented on massively parallel systems (supercomputers) or graphical processing unit clusters. With the advent of multicore…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-30 Navtej Singh , Lisa-Marie Browne , Ray Butler

This paper proposes Scalene, a profiler specialized for Python. Scalene combines a suite of innovations to precisely and simultaneously profile CPU, memory, and GPU usage, all with low overhead. Scalene's CPU and memory profilers help…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Emery D. Berger , Sam Stern , Juan Altmayer Pizzorno

We present recent developments in the parallelization scheme of ECHO-3DHPC, an efficient astrophysical code used in the modelling of relativistic plasmas. With the help of the Intel Software Development Tools, like Fortran compiler and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Matteo Bugli , Luigi Iapichino , Fabio Baruffa

Computed tomography perfusion (CTP) and magnetic resonance perfusion (MRP) are widely used in acute ischemic stroke assessment and other cerebrovascular conditions to generate quantitative maps of cerebral hemodynamics. While commercial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Marijn Borghouts , Ruisheng Su

Scripting languages such as Python and R have been widely adopted as tools for the productive development of scientific software because of the power and expressiveness of the languages and available libraries. However, deploying scripted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Justin M. Wozniak , Timothy G. Armstrong , Ketan C. Maheshwari , Daniel S. Katz , Michael Wilde , Ian T. Foster

As modern FPGAs evolve to include more het- erogeneous processing elements, such as ARM cores, it makes sense to consider these devices as processors first and FPGA accelerators second. As such, the conventional FPGA develop- ment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Andrew G. Schmidt , Gabriel Weisz , Matthew French

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the PyTorch distributed data parallel module. PyTorch is a widely-adopted scientific computing package used in deep learning research and applications. Recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Shen Li , Yanli Zhao , Rohan Varma , Omkar Salpekar , Pieter Noordhuis , Teng Li , Adam Paszke , Jeff Smith , Brian Vaughan , Pritam Damania , Soumith Chintala

This paper introduces Sparklen, a statistical learning toolkit for Hawkes processes in Python, designed to bring together efficiency and ease of use. The purpose of this package is to provide the Python community with a complete suite of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-31 Romain Edmond Lacoste

The open-source PyNX toolkit [Favre-Nicolin et al (2011) arXiv:1010.2641, Mandula et al (2016)] has been extended to provide tools for coherent X-ray imaging data analysis and simulation. All calculations can be executed on graphical…

Massive upgrades to science infrastructure are driving data velocities upwards while stimulating adoption of increasingly data-intensive analytics. While next-generation exascale supercomputers promise strong support for I/O-intensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Michael Salim , Thomas Uram , J. Taylor Childers , Venkat Vishwanath , Michael E. Papka

IntLevPy provides a comprehensive description of the IntLevPy Package, a Python library designed for simulating and analyzing intermittent and L\'evy processes. The package includes functionalities for process simulation, including full…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Shailendra Bhandari , Pedro Lencastre , Sergiy Denysov , Yurii Bystryk , Pedro G. Lind

The theory of divide-and-conquer parallelization has been well-studied in the past, providing a solid basis upon which to explore different approaches to the parallelization of merge sort in Python. Python's simplicity and extensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Alexandra Yang

We introduce SpreadPy as a Python library for simulating spreading activation in cognitive single-layer and multiplex networks. Our tool is designed to perform numerical simulations testing structure-function relationships in cognitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Salvatore Citraro , Edith Haim , Alessandra Carini , Cynthia S. Q. Siew , Giulio Rossetti , Massimo Stella

py-irt is a Python library for fitting Bayesian Item Response Theory (IRT) models. py-irt estimates latent traits of subjects and items, making it appropriate for use in IRT tasks as well as ideal-point models. py-irt is built on top of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 John P. Lalor , Pedro Rodriguez

Performance analysis is a critical step in the oft-repeated, iterative process of performance tuning of parallel programs. Per-process, per-thread traces (detailed logs of events with timestamps) enable in-depth analysis of parallel program…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Abhinav Bhatele , Rakrish Dhakal , Alexander Movsesyan , Aditya K. Ranjan , Onur Cankur

\textsc{Pykat} is a Python package which extends the popular optical interferometer modelling software \textsc{Finesse}. It provides a more modern and efficient user interface for conducting complex numerical simulations, as well as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-16 Daniel D. Brown , Philip Jones , Samuel Rowlinson , Andreas Freise , Sean Leavey , Anna C. Green , Daniel Toyra

Python is the de-facto language for software development in artificial intelligence (AI). Commonly used libraries, such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, rely on parallelization built into their BLAS backends to achieve speedup on CPUs. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Maksim Helmann , Alexander Strack , Dirk Pflüger

Recent advancements in hardware accelerators such as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) speed up computation time relative to Central Processing Units (CPUs) not only for machine learning but, as demonstrated here, also for scientific modeling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Damien Pierce , R. Lily Hu , Yusef Shafi , Anudhyan Boral , Vladimir Anisimov , Sella Nevo , Yi-fan Chen

Python data science libraries such as Pandas and NumPy have recently gained immense popularity. Although these libraries are feature-rich and easy to use, their scalability limitations require more robust computational resources. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Hesam Shahrokhi , Amirali Kaboli , Mahdi Ghorbani , Amir Shaikhha

The aim of this paper is to give a presentation of the Python toolbox YALTAPy dedicated to the stability study of standard and fractional delay systems as well as its online version YALTAPy_Online. Both toolboxes are derived from YALTA…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Hugo Cavalera , Jayvir Raj , Guilherme Mazanti , Catherine Bonnet