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With the continuous improvement of on-chip integrated voltage regulators (IVRs) and fast, adaptive frequency control, dynamic voltage-frequency scaling (DVFS) transition times have shrunk from the microsecond to the nanosecond regime,…

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While GPUs dominate massively parallel computing through the single-instruction, multiple-thread (SIMT) programming model, their underlying single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) execution incurs substantial energy overhead from frequent…

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We introduce Skywork UniPic, a 1.5 billion-parameter autoregressive model that unifies image understanding, text-to-image generation, and image editing within a single architecture-eliminating the need for task-specific adapters or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Peiyu Wang , Yi Peng , Yimeng Gan , Liang Hu , Tianyidan Xie , Xiaokun Wang , Yichen Wei , Chuanxin Tang , Bo Zhu , Changshi Li , Hongyang Wei , Eric Li , Xuchen Song , Yang Liu , Yahui Zhou

This paper investigates the application of a robust CPU-based power modelling methodology that performs an automatic search of explanatory events derived from performance counters to embedded GPUs. A 64-bit Tegra TX1 SoC is configured with…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Jose Nunez-Yanez , Kris Nikov , Kerstin Eder , Mohammad Hosseinabady

As standardly implemented in R or the Tetrad program, causal search algorithms used most widely or effectively by scientists have severe dimensionality constraints that make them inappropriate for big data problems without sacrificing…

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The performance of graph programs depends highly on the algorithm, the size and structure of the input graphs, as well as the features of the underlying hardware. No single set of optimizations or one hardware platform works well across all…

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With the advent of high-performance computing techniques, the data for analysis has grown significantly. Here, graphic processing unit (GPU) based program kernels are discussed to exploit parallelism in the analysis codes specific to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Gourav Shrivastav , Manish Agarwal

Matrix multiplication is a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, yet its computational complexity makes it a significant bottleneck for large-scale applications. The shift to parallel architectures, primarily…

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Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provide the golden standard for the ab initio simulations of identical particles. In this work, we achieved significant GPU acceleration based on PIMD, which is…

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New challenges in Astronomy and Astrophysics (AA) are urging the need for a large number of exceptionally computationally intensive simulations. "Exascale" (and beyond) computational facilities are mandatory to address the size of…

Gaussian processes are widely used in machine learning domains but remain computationally demanding, limiting their efficient scalability across emerging hardware platforms. The GPRat library addresses these challenges using the HPX…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Alexander Strack , Patrick Diehl , Dirk Pflüger

Many-core accelerators, as represented by the XeonPhi coprocessors and GPGPUs, allow software to exploit spatial and temporal sharing of computing resources to improve the overall system performance. To unlock this performance potential…

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We present TeraPart, a memory-efficient multilevel graph partitioning method that is designed to scale to extremely large graphs. In balanced graph partitioning, the goal is to divide the vertices into $k$ blocks with balanced size while…

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This study explores strategies for academic researchers to optimize computational resources within limited budgets, focusing on building small, efficient computing clusters. It delves into the comparative costs of purchasing versus renting…

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Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daniel Jünger , Kevin Kristensen , Yunsong Wang , Xiangyao Yu , Bertil Schmidt

This paper presents a heuristic for finding the optimum number of CUDA streams by using tools common to the modern AI-oriented approaches and applied to the parallel partition algorithm. A time complexity model for the GPU realization of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Milena Veneva , Toshiyuki Imamura

Deep neural networks are widely used in personalized recommendation systems. Unlike regular DNN inference workloads, recommendation inference is memory-bound due to the many random memory accesses needed to lookup the embedding tables. The…

The molecular dynamics simulation package GROMACS runs efficiently on a wide variety of hardware from commodity workstations to high performance computing clusters. Hardware features are well exploited with a combination of SIMD,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Carsten Kutzner , Szilárd Páll , Martin Fechner , Ansgar Esztermann , Bert L. de Groot , Helmut Grubmüller

AlphaFold predicts protein structures from the amino acid sequence at or near experimental resolution, solving the 50-year-old protein folding challenge, leading to progress by transforming large-scale genomics data into protein structures.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-16 Bozitao Zhong , Xiaoming Su , Minhua Wen , Sichen Zuo , Liang Hong , James Lin