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Molecular dynamics simulations are essential tools in computational biophysics, but their performance depend heavily on hardware choices and configuration. In this work, we presents a comprehensive performance analysis of four NVIDIA GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ayesha Afzal , Anna Kahler , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein

We accelerated an ab-initio molecular QMC calculation by using GPGPU. Only the bottle-neck part of the calculation is replaced by CUDA subroutine and performed on GPU. The performance on a (single core CPU + GPU) is compared with that on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 Yutaka Uejima , Tomoharu Terashima , Ryo Maezono

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

We characterize the GPU energy usage of two widely adopted exascale-ready applications representing two classes of particle and mesh solvers: (i) QMCPACK, a quantum Monte Carlo package, and (ii) AMReXCastro, an adaptive mesh astrophysical…

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the simulation of fluid flow undertaken with the use of computational hardware. The underlying equations are computationally challenging to solve and necessitate high performance computing (HPC) to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Zachary Cooper-Baldock , Brenda Vara Almirall , Kiao Inthavong

We present the outline of a research project aimed at designing and constructing a hybrid computing system that can be easily scaled up to petaflops speeds. As a first step, we envision building a prototype which will consist of three main…

We present Shamrock, a performance portable framework developed in C++17 with the SYCL programming standard, tailored for numerical astrophysics on Exascale architectures. The core of Shamrock is an accelerated parallel tree with negligible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Timothée David--Cléris , Guillaume Laibe , Yona Lapeyre

Graphics processing units (GPU) had evolved from a specialized hardware capable to render high quality graphics in games to a commodity hardware for effective processing blocks of data in a parallel schema. This evolution is particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Luis Cabellos

The objective of our research is to demonstrate the practical usage and orders of magnitude speedup of real-world applications by using alternative technologies to support high performance computing. Currently, the main barrier to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-22 Robert J. Brunner , Volodymyr V. Kindratenko , Adam D. Myers

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with high accuracy have been increasingly popular for their capability to bridge the gap between atomistic modeling and mesoscale phenomena. Both machine learning potentials and enhanced sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Haoting Zhang , Qiuhan Jia , Zhennan Zhang , Yijie Zhu , Zhongwei Zhang , Junjie Wang , Jiuyang Shi , Zheyong Fan , Jian Sun

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

This paper presents, to the author's knowledge, the first graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated program that solves the evolution of interacting scalar fields in an expanding universe. We present the implementation in NVIDIA's Compute…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jani Sainio

We present high resolution simulations of a multiple merger of three disk galaxies including the evolution of magnetic fields performed with the N-body/SPH code Gadget. For the first time, we embed the galaxies in a magnetized, low-density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 H. Kotarba , H. Lesch , K. Dolag , T. Naab , P. H. Johansson , J. Donnert , F. A. Stasyszyn

Hardware heterogeneity is here to stay for high-performance computing. Large-scale systems are currently equipped with multiple GPU accelerators per compute node and are expected to incorporate more specialized hardware in the future. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Nikos Chrisochoides

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are recently being used to an increasing degree for general computational purposes. This development is motivated by their theoretical peak performance, which significantly exceeds that of broadly available…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Weigel

We present our experience with the modernization on the GR-MHD code BHAC, aimed at improving its novel hybrid (MPI+OpenMP) parallelization scheme. In doing so, we showcase the use of performance profiling tools usable on x86 (Intel-based)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Salvatore Cielo , Oliver Porth , Luigi Iapichino , Anupam Karmakar , Hector Olivares , Chun Xia

GROMACS is a de-facto standard for classical Molecular Dynamics (MD). The rise of AI-driven interatomic potentials that pursue near-quantum accuracy at MD throughput now poses a significant challenge: embedding neural-network inference into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Luca Pennati , Andong Hu , Ivy Peng , Lukas Müllender , Stefano Markidis

Benchmarking and comparing performance of a scientific simulation across hardware platforms is a complex task. When the simulation in question is constructed with an asynchronous, many-task (AMT) runtime offloading work to GPUs, the task…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Patrick Diehl , Gregor Daiss , Kevin Huck , Dominic Marcello , Sagiv Shiber , Hartmut Kaiser , Juhan Frank , Geoffrey C. Clayton , Dirk Pflueger

Hardware heterogeneity is here to stay for high-performance computing. Large-scale systems are currently equipped with multiple GPU accelerators per compute node and are expected to incorporate more specialized hardware. This shift in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Nikos Chrisochoides

The rise of AI and the economic dominance of cloud computing have created a new nexus of innovation for high performance computing (HPC), which has a long history of driving scientific discovery. In addition to performance needs, scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Vanessa Sochat , Daniel Milroy , Abhik Sarkar , Aniruddha Marathe , Tapasya Patki