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In this study, we introduce HOBOTAN, a new solver designed for Higher Order Binary Optimization (HOBO). HOBOTAN supports both CPU and GPU, with the GPU version developed based on PyTorch, offering a fast and scalable system. This solver…

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We present $\texttt{Abacus}$, a fast and accurate cosmological $N$-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces,…

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The Nvidia GPU architecture has introduced new computing elements such as the \textit{tensor cores}, which are special processing units dedicated to perform fast matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) operations and accelerate \textit{Deep…

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We have developed a special-purpose computer for gravitational many-body simulations, GRAPE-5. GRAPE-5 is the successor of GRAPE-3. Both consist of eight custom pipeline chips (G5 chip and GRAPE chip). The difference between GRAPE-5 and…

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GPU computing is popular due to the calculation potential of a single card. The N-body integrator GENGA is built to for this, but it suffers a performance penalty on consumer-grade GPUs due to their truncated double precision (FP64)…

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We present a hybrid numerical approach to simulate quantum many body problems on two spatial dimensional quantum lattice models via the non-Abelian ab initio version of the density matrix renormalization group method on state-of-the-art…

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Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become state-of-the-art algorithms for analyzing non-euclidean graph data. However, to realize efficient GNN training is challenging, especially on large graphs. The reasons are many-folded: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Zhe Zhou , Cong Li , Xuechao Wei , Xiaoyang Wang , Guangyu Sun

A novel Gibbs Markov random field for spatial data on Cartesian grids based on the modified planar rotator (MPR) model of statistical physics has been recently introduced for efficient and automatic interpolation of big data sets, such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-21 Milan Žukovič , Michal Borovský , Matúš Lach , Dionissios T. Hristopulos

Motion planning is a fundamental problem in robotics that involves generating feasible trajectories for a robot to follow. Recent advances in parallel computing, particularly through CPU and GPU architectures, have significantly reduced…

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Memory bound applications such as solvers for large sparse systems of equations remain a challenge for GPUs. Fast solvers should be based on numerically efficient algorithms and implemented such that global memory access is minimised. To…

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N-body simulations are essential tools in physical cosmology to understand the large-scale structure (LSS) formation of the Universe. Large-scale simulations with high resolution are important for exploring the substructure of universe and…

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One of the computational challenges of cluster formation simulations is resolving individual stars and simulating massive clusters with masses of more than $10^4 M_{\odot}$ without gravitational softening. Combining direct $N$-body code…

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In this paper, we describe the architecture and performance of the GRAPE-6 system, a massively-parallel special-purpose computer for astrophysical $N$-body simulations. GRAPE-6 is the successor of GRAPE-4, which was completed in 1995 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junichiro Makino , Toshiyuki Fukushige , Masaki Koga , Ken Namura

The fitting of spectral lines is a common step in the analysis of line observations and simulations. However, the observational noise, the presence of multiple velocity components, and potentially large data sets make it a non-trivial task.…

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Computation of correlation functions is a key operation in Lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) simulations to extract nuclear physics observables. These functions involve many binary batch tensor contractions, each tensor possibly…

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In this paper I will outline some of the aspects and problems of modern celestial mechanics and stellar dynamics, in the context of the quickly growing computing facilities. I will point the attention on the great advantages in using, for…

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Understanding the universe is hampered by the elusiveness of its most common constituent, cold dark matter. Almost impossible to observe, dark matter can be studied effectively by means of simulation and there is probably no other research…