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Energy system optimization models are increasing in scope and resolution, yielding large and challenging linear programs. For a long time, the standard way to address such problems has relied on shared-memory interior-point methods (IPM),…

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The Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm (MLFMA) has known applications in scientific modeling in the fields of telecommunications, physics, mechanics, and chemistry. Accelerating calculation of far-field using GPUs and GPU clusters for…

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We have developed a compressed neighbor list for short-range particle-particle interaction based on a space- filling curve (SFC) memory layout and particle clusters. The neighbor list can be constructed efficiently on GPUs, supporting…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Felix Thaler , Sebastian Keller

Although originally developed primarily for artificial intelligence workloads, RISC-V-based accelerators are also emerging as attractive platforms for high-performance scientific computing. In this work, we present our approach to…

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We have recently written a new code to simulate the long term evolution of spherical clusters of stars. It is based on the pioneering Monte Carlo scheme proposed by Henon in the 70's. Our code has been devised in the specific goal to treat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marc Freitag , Willy Benz

Gadget3 is nowadays one of the most frequently used high performing parallel codes for cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Recent analyses have shown t\ hat the Neighbour Search process of Gadget3 is one of the most time-consuming…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Antonio Ragagnin , Nikola Tchipev , Michael Bader , Klaus Dolag , Nicolay J. Hammer

Hardware accelerators (such as Nvidia's CUDA GPUs) have tremendous promise for computational science, because they can deliver large gains in performance at relatively low cost. In this work, we focus on the use of Nvidia's Tesla GPU for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-06-04 Rakesh Ginjupalli , Gaurav Khanna

A fast $N$-body code has been developed for simulating a stellar disk embedded in a live dark matter halo. In generating its Poisson solver, a self-consistent field (SCF) code which inherently possesses perfect scalability is incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Shunsuke Hozumi , Keigo Nitadori , Masaki Iwasawa

We present a computational algorithm for computing short range forces between particles. The algorithm has two distinguishing features. First, it is optimized for multi-processor computers, and will use as many processors as are available.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Robert C. Ferrell , Edmund Bertschinger

In this work, an updated version of the multi-scale, multi-physics algorithm, Nemesis which makes use of the Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment (AMUSE). The algorithm is formally introduced and validated. A suite of simulations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Erwan Hochart , Simon Portegies Zwart

We present an alternative GPU acceleration for plane waves pseudopotentials electronic structure codes designed for systems that have small unit cells but require a large number of k points to sample the Brillouin zone as happens, for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-31 Xuejun Gong , Andrea Dal Corso

Many-particle continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) represent a resource for several tasks in quantum technology, including quantum search algorithms and universal quantum computation. In order to design and implement CTQWs in a realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-02 Enrico Piccinini , Claudia Benedetti , Ilaria Siloi , Matteo G. A. Paris , Paolo Bordone

We present Horizon, a new graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated code to solve the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in a given spacetime. We evaluate the code in several test cases, including magnetized Riemann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Burkhard Zink

(Abridged) We have developed a numerical software library for collisionless N-body simulations named "Phantom-GRAPE" which highly accelerates force calculations among particles by use of a new SIMD instruction set extension to the x86…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ataru Tanikawa , Kohji Yoshikawa , Keigo Nitadori , Takashi Okamoto

In this short review we present the developments over the last 5 decades that have led to the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for astrophysical simulations. Since the introduction of NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeroen Bédorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

This article introduces a highly parallel algorithm for molecular dynamics simulations with short-range forces on single node multi- and many-core systems. The algorithm is designed to achieve high parallel speedups for strongly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 R. Meyer

Energy awareness and efficiency policies are gaining more attention, over pure performance (time-to-solution) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) when comparing the possibilities offered by accelerated systems. But in a field such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Salvatore Cielo , Alexander Pöppl , Ivan Pribec

Energy-efficiency is a key concern for neural network applications. To alleviate this issue, hardware acceleration using FPGAs or GPUs can provide better energy-efficiency than general-purpose processors. However, further improvement of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Seyed Morteza Nabavinejad , Behzad Salami

We introduce a GPU-accelerated hybrid hydro/N-body code (Enzo-N) designed to address the challenges of concurrently simulating star clusters and their parent galaxies. This task has been exceedingly challenging, primarily due to the…

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