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Machine learning technology has the potential to dramatically optimise event generation and simulations. We continue to investigate the use of neural networks to approximate matrix elements for high-multiplicity scattering processes. We…

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Population annealing is a powerful tool for large-scale Monte Carlo simulations. We adapt this method to molecular dynamics simulations and demonstrate its excellent accelerating effect by simulating the folding of a short peptide commonly…

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We introduce a GPU-accelerated simulation tool, named Modeling on Shallow Flows with Efficient Simulation for Two-Phase Debris Flows (MoSES_2PDF), of which the input and output data can be linked to the GIS system for engineering…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Chi-Jyun Ko , Po-Chih Chen , Hock-Kiet Wong , Yih-Chin Tai

This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explicit kinetic schemes, this work features a fast converging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Yonghao Zhang

Computer simulation with Monte Carlo is an important tool to investigate the function and equilibrium properties of many systems with biological and soft matter materials solvable in solvents. The appropriate treatment of long-range…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Zecheng Gan , Zhenli Xu

In this work, we first characterize the hybrid execution patterns of GCNs on Intel Xeon CPU. Guided by the characterization, we design a GCN accelerator, HyGCN, using a hybrid architecture to efficiently perform GCNs. Specifically, first,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Mingyu Yan , Lei Deng , Xing Hu , Ling Liang , Yujing Feng , Xiaochun Ye , Zhimin Zhang , Dongrui Fan , Yuan Xie

Monte Carlo generation of high energy particle collisions is a critical tool for both theoretical and experimental particle physics, connecting perturbative calculations to phenomenological models, and theory predictions to full detector…

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Monte Carlo simulation is the most accurate method for absorbed dose calculations in radiotherapy. Its efficiency still requires improvement for routine clinical applications, especially for online adaptive radiotherapy. In this paper, we…

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Polyhedral nanocrystals are building blocks for nanostructured materials that find applications in catalysis and plasmonics. Synthesis efforts and self-assembly experiments have been assisted by computer simulations that predict phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-01 Marco Klement , Sangmin Lee , Joshua A. Anderson , Michael Engel

Numerical studies of shock waves in large scale systems via kinetic simulations with millions of particles are too computationally demanding to be processed in serial. In this work we focus on optimizing the parallel performance of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 Jim Howell , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Alec Staber , Irina Sagert , Terrance Strother

AcceleratedKernels.jl is introduced as a backend-agnostic library for parallel computing in Julia, natively targeting NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple accelerators via a unique transpilation architecture. Written in a unified, compact…

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An increasing number of applications are exploiting sampling-based algorithms for planning, optimization, and inference. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms form the computational backbone of this emerging branch of machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Shirui Zhao , Jun Yin , Lingyun Yao , Martin Andraud , Wannes Meert , Marian Verhelst

The modern trend in High-Performance Computing (HPC) involves the use of accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) alongside Central Processing Units (CPUs) to speed up numerical operations in various applications. Leading…

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In this contribution, we propose a new computationally efficient method to combine Variational Inference (VI) with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). This approach can be used with generic MCMC kernels, but is especially well suited to…

A multi-platform validation and analysis framework for public Monte Carlo simulation for high-energy particle collisions is discussed. The front-end of this framework uses the Python programming language, while the back-end is written in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 S. V. Chekanov , I. Pogrebnyak , D. Wilbern

We present how we ported the Hybrid Monte Carlo implementation in the tmLQCD software suite to GPUs through offloading its most expensive parts to the QUDA library. We discuss our motivations and some of the technical challenges that we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-12-14 Bartosz Kostrzewa , Simone Bacchio , Jacob Finkenrath , Marco Garofalo , Ferenc Pittler , Simone Romiti , Carsten Urbach

In the context of the validation of PICLas, a kinetic particle suite for the simulation of rarefied, non-equilibrium plasma flows, the biased hypersonic nitrogen flow around a blunted cone was simulated with the Direct Simulation Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 T. Binder , S. Copplestone , A. Mirza , P. Nizenkov , P. Ortwein , M. Pfeiffer , W. Reschke , C. -D. Munz , S. Fasoulas

General-purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU) has been introduced to many areas of scientific research such as bioinformatics, cryptography, computer vision, and deep learning. However, computing models in the High-energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Max Isacson , Mattias Ellert , Richard Brenner

This article presents an electron tunneling noise programmable random variate accelerator for accelerating the sampling stage of Monte Carlo simulations. We used the LiteX framework to generate a FemtoRV imfc RISC-V instruction set soft…

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