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Neural development represents not only an exciting and complex field of study, with ongoing progress, but it also became the epicentre of neuroscience and developmental biology, as it strives to describe the underlying cellular and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-15 Ana M. Mihut , Graham Morgan , Marcus Kaiser

Our understanding of the physics of biological molecules, such as proteins and DNA, is limited because the approximations we usually apply to model inert materials are not in general applicable to soft, chemically inhomogeneous systems. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 Sarah Harris , Vivien M. Kendon

AMD Xilinx's new Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) is an FPGA architecture combining reconfigurable fabric with other on-chip hardened compute resources. AI engines are one of these and, by operating in a highly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Nick Brown

Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in the development of parallel hardware systems for simulating large-scale networks of spiking neurons. Compared to other highly-parallel systems, GPU-accelerated solutions have the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-22 Bruno Golosio , Gianmarco Tiddia , Chiara De Luca , Elena Pastorelli , Francesco Simula , Pier Stanislao Paolucci

We describe how quantum Monte Carlo calculations using the CASINO software can be accelerated using graphics processing units (GPUs) and OpenACC. In particular we consider offloading Ewald summation, the evaluation of long-range two-body…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 B. Thorpe , M. J. Smith , P. J. Hasnip , N. D. Drummond

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

Agent-based modeling and network science have been used extensively to advance our understanding of emergent collective behavior in systems that are composed of a large number of simple interacting individuals or agents. With the increasing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Marcos Cardinot , Colm O'Riordan , Josephine Griffith , Matjaž Perc

Particle accelerator modeling is an important field of research and development, essential to investigating, designing and operating some of the most complex scientific devices ever built. Kinetic simulations of relativistic, charged…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Ryan T. Sandberg , Remi Lehe , Chad E. Mitchell , Marco Garten , Andrew Myers , Ji Qiang , Jean-Luc Vay , Axel Huebl

In this work, we review previously developed coarse-grained (CG) particle models for biological membrane and red blood cells (RBCs) and discuss the advantages of the CG particle method over the continuum and atomic simulations on modeling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-07-18 He Li , Hung-yu Chang , Jun Yang , Lu Lu , George Lykotrafitis

Due to its flexible architecture, FPGAs support unique, deep hardware pipeline implementations for accelerating HPC applications. However, these devices are quite new in the HPC space, and thus, have been scarcely explored outside some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nicolas Lee Guidotti

Recent years have witnessed a rapid advancement in GPU technology, establishing it as a formidable high-performance parallel computing technology with superior floating-point computational capabilities compared to traditional CPUs. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xinyao Yi , Yuxin Qiao

We introduce DeepABM, a framework for agent-based modeling that leverages geometric message passing of graph neural networks for simulating action and interactions over large agent populations. Using DeepABM allows scaling simulations to…

Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) have brought potentially game-changing opportunities in accelerating reactive flow simulations. In this study, we introduce an open-source computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Runze Mao , Yingrui Wang , Min Zhang , Han Li , Jiayang Xu , Xinyu Dong , Yan Zhang , Zhi X. Chen

Beagle is a new software framework that enables execution of Genetic Programming tasks on the GPU. Currently available for symbolic regression, it processes individuals of the population and fitness cases for training in a way that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Nathan Haut , Ilya Basin , Marzieh Kianinejad , Ruchika Gupta , Elijah Smith , Zachary Perrico , Wolfgang Banzhaf

GPU accelerators have had a notable impact on high-performance computing across many disciplines. They provide high performance with low cost/power, and therefore have become a primary compute resource on many of the largest supercomputers.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 R. M. Caplan , J. A. Linker , Z. Mikić , C. Downs , T. Török , V. S. Titov

For many years, systems running Nvidia-based GPU architectures have dominated the heterogeneous supercomputer landscape. However, recently GPU chipsets manufactured by Intel and AMD have cut into this market and can now be found in some of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 L. Apanasevich , Yogesh Kale , Himanshu Sharma , Ana Marija Sokovic

Atmospheric models demand a lot of computational power and solving the chemical processes is one of its most computationally intensive components. This work shows how to improve the computational performance of the Multiscale Online…

Real-time large-scale crowd simulations with realistic behavior, are important for many application areas. On CPUs, the ORCA pedestrian steering model is often used for agent-based pedestrian simulations. This paper introduces a technique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-28 John Charlton , Luis Rene Montana Gonzalez , Steve Maddock , Paul Richmond

Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be surrounded by a collisionless, highly magnetized accretion flow. As a result, Particle-in-Cell simulations are the best tools to study the immediate vicinity of the event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Alexander Y. Chen , Martin Luepker , Yajie Yuan

Immersed boundary methods (IBMs) facilitate the simulation of flows around stationary, moving, and deforming bodies on Cartesian grids. However, extending these simulations to the large grid sizes required for realistic flow problems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal