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Advancements in AI have greatly enhanced the medical imaging process, making it quicker to diagnose patients. However, very few have investigated the optimization of a multi-model system with hardware acceleration. As specialized edge…

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This paper presents a limited-area atmospheric simulation of a tropical cyclone accelerated using GPUs. The OpenACC directive-based programming model is used to port the atmospheric model to the GPU. The GPU implementation of the main…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Soonpil Kang , Francis X. Giraldo , Seth Camp

Earth system models (ESM) demand significant hardware resources and energy consumption to solve atmospheric chemistry processes. Recent studies have shown improved performance from running these models on GPU accelerators. Nonetheless,…

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are important tools in life and material sciences since they allow studying chemical and biological processes in detail. However, the inherent scalability problem of particle-particle…

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NVIDIA has been the main provider of GPU hardware in HPC systems for over a decade. Most applications that benefit from GPUs have thus been developed and optimized for the NVIDIA software stack. Recent exascale HPC systems are, however,…

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Solving discretized versions of the Dirac equation represents a large share of execution time in lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) simulations. Many high-performance computing (HPC) clusters use graphics processing units (GPUs) to offer…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-07-02 Tilmann Matthaei

The fundamental understanding of how cells physically interact with each other and their environment is key to understanding their organisation in living tissues. Over the past decades several computational methods have been developed to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-22 Paul Van Liedekerke , Jiří Pešek , Kevin Alessandri , Dirk Drasdo

Molecular simulations are an important tool for research in physics, chemistry, and biology. The capabilities of simulations can be greatly expanded by providing access to advanced sampling methods and techniques that permit calculation of…

We envision the Full-Body AI Agent as a comprehensive AI system designed to simulate, analyze, and optimize the dynamic processes of the human body across multiple biological levels. By integrating computational models, machine learning…

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Tumours behave as moving targets that can evade chemotherapeutic treatments by rapidly acquiring resistance via various mechanisms. In Balaz et al. (2021, Biosystems; 199:104290) we initiated the development of the agent-based open-ended…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Igor Balaz , Tara Petric , Namid Stillman

It is demonstrated how the non-proprietary OpenACC standard of compiler directives may be used to compactly and efficiently accelerate the rate-determining steps of two of the most routinely applied many-body methods of electronic structure…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Janus Juul Eriksen

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, with their inherent capacity to generate highly realistic state-of-the-art synthetic data. However, these models employ an iterative denoising process over computationally intensive layers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tharini Suresh , Salma Afifi , Sudeep Pasricha

McXtrace is an established Monte Carlo based ray-tracing tool to simulate synchrotron beamlines and X-ray laboratory instruments. This work explains and demonstrates the new capability of GPU-accelerated McXtrace ray-tracing simulations.…

High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms allow scientists to model computationally intensive algorithms. HPC clusters increasingly use General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) as accelerators; FPGAs provide an attractive…

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Simulation speed matters for neuroscientific research: this includes not only how quickly the simulated model time of a large-scale spiking neuronal network progresses, but also how long it takes to instantiate the network model in computer…

Realistic driving simulation requires that NPCs not only mimic natural driving behaviors but also react to the behavior of other simulated agents. Recent developments in diffusion-based scenario generation focus on creating diverse and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yunpeng Liu , Matthew Niedoba , William Harvey , Adam Scibior , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

We investigate the performance of Opticks, a NVIDIA OptiX API 7.5 GPU-accelerated photon propagation tool compared with a single-threaded Geant4 simulation. We compare the simulations using an improved model of the NEXT-CRAB-0 gaseous time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-20 NEXT Collaboration , I. Parmaksiz , K. Mistry , E. Church , C. Adams , J. Asaadi , J. Baeza-Rubio , K. Bailey , N. Byrnes , B. J. P. Jones , I. A. Moya , K. E. Navarro , D. R. Nygren , P. Oyedele , L. Rogers , F. Samaniego , K. Stogsdill , H. Almazán , V. Álvarez , B. Aparicio , A. I. Aranburu , L. Arazi , I. J. Arnquist , F. Auria-Luna , S. Ayet , C. D. R. Azevedo , F. Ballester , M. del Barrio-Torregrosa , A. Bayo , J. M. Benlloch-Rodríguez , F. I. G. M. Borges , A. Brodolin , S. Cárcel , A. Castillo , L. Cid , C. A. N. Conde , T. Contreras , F. P. Cossío , R. Coupe , E. Dey , G. Díaz , C. Echevarria , M. Elorza , J. Escada , R. Esteve , R. Felkai , L. M. P. Fernandes , P. Ferrario , A. L. Ferreira , F. W. Foss , Z. Freixa , J. García-Barrena , J. J. Gómez-Cadenas , J. W. R. Grocott , R. Guenette , J. Hauptman , C. A. O. Henriques , J. A. Hernando Morata , P. Herrero-Gómez , V. Herrero , C. Hervés Carrete , Y. Ifergan , F. Kellerer , L. Larizgoitia , A. Larumbe , P. Lebrun , F. Lopez , N. López-March , R. Madigan , R. D. P. Mano , A. P. Marques , J. Martín-Albo , G. Martínez-Lema , M. Martínez-Vara , R. L. Miller , J. Molina-Canteras , F. Monrabal , C. M. B. Monteiro , F. J. Mora , P. Novella , A. Nuñez , E. Oblak , J. Palacio , B. Palmeiro , A. Para , A. Pazos , J. Pelegrin , M. Pérez Maneiro , M. Querol , J. Renner , I. Rivilla , C. Rogero , B. Romeo , C. Romo-Luque , V. San Nacienciano , F. P. Santos , J. M. F. dos Santos , M. Seemann , I. Shomroni , P. A. O. C. Silva , A. Simón , S. R. Soleti , M. Sorel , J. Soto-Oton , J. M. R. Teixeira , S. Teruel-Pardo , J. F. Toledo , C. Tonnelé , S. Torelli , J. Torrent , A. Trettin , A. Usón , P. R. G. Valle , J. F. C. A. Veloso , J. Waiton , A. Yubero-Navarro

A major goal of modern computational biology is to simulate the collective behaviour of large cell populations starting from the intricate web of molecular interactions occurring at the microscopic level. In this paper we describe a…

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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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong

Cancer is a disease driven by random DNA mutations and the interaction of many complex phenomena. To improve the understanding and ultimately find more effective treatments, researchers leverage computer simulations mimicking the tumor…

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