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Over the last couple of years it has been realized that the vast computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) could be harvested for purposes other than the video game industry. This power, which at least nominally exceeds that…

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Computer models (simulators) are vital tools for investigating physical processes. Despite their utility, the prohibitive run-time of simulators hinders their direct application for uncertainty quantification. Gaussian process emulators…

Computation · Statistics 2024-11-25 Conor Crilly , Oliver Johnson , Alexander Lewis , Jonathan Rougier

Data-driven methods for computer simulations are blooming in many scientific areas. The traditional approach to simulating physical behaviors relies on solving partial differential equations (PDE). Since calculating these iterative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sergio Iserte , Alejandro González-Barberá , Paloma Barreda , Krzysztof Rojek

We discuss the efficiency of parallelization on graphical processing units (GPUs) for the simulation of the one dimensional Potts model with long range interactions via parallel tempering. We investigate the behaviour of some thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Boer

Fluid simulation is an important research topic in computer graphics (CG) and animation in video games. Traditional methods based on Navier-Stokes equations are computationally expensive. In this paper, we treat fluid motion as point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yu Chen , Shuai Zheng , Nianyi Wang , Menglong Jin , Yan Chang

Solving the shallow water equations efficiently is critical to the study of natural hazards induced by tsunami and storm surge, since it provides more response time in an early warning system and allows more runs to be done for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Xinsheng Qin , Randall LeVeque , Michael Motley

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to a new generation of hardware accelerators optimized for deep learning. Some of the designs of these accelerators are general enough to allow their use for other…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Fantine Huot , Yi-Fan Chen , Robert Clapp , Carlos Boneti , John Anderson

Finite element simulations play a critical role in a wide range of applications, from automotive design to tsunami modeling and computational electromagnetics. Performing these simulations efficiently at the high resolutions needed for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jiqun Tu , Ian Karlin , John Camier , Veselin Dobrev , Tzanio Kolev , Stefan Henneking , Omar Ghattas

The recent trend of using Graphics Processing Units (GPU's) for high performance computations is driven by the high ratio of price performance for these units, complemented by their cost effectiveness. At first glance, computational fluid…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Kiril S. Shterev

The discoveries in this paper show that Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) offer a viable accelerator alternative to GPUs for machine learning (ML) applications within the fields of materials science and battery research. We investigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hieu Le , Zhenhua He , Mai Le , Dhruva K. Chakravorty , Lisa M. Perez , Akhil Chilumuru , Yan Yao , Jiefu Chen

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

With the increasing computations in power system simulations, high-performance and cost-effective power system simulator is highly required. In this paper, a cloud-computing based power system simulator, namely CloudPSS, is designed. Based…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yankan Song , Ying Chen , Zhitong Yu , Shaowei Huang , Chen Shen

Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) provide impressive computing resources, which can be accessed conveniently through the CUDA programming interface. We describe how GPUs can be used to considerably speed up molecular dynamics (MD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Peter H. Colberg , Felix Höfling

We present a Pseudo-Transient Topology Optimization (PeTTO) approach that can leverage graphics processing units (GPUs) to efficiently solve single-material and multi-material topology optimization problems. By integrating PeTTO with phase…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Mingyuan Yang , Qian Yu , Chao Yang

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

Many applications are increasingly requiring numerical simulations for solving complex problems. Most of these numerical algorithms are massively parallel and often implemented on parallel high-performance computers. However, classic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Karl F. A. Friebel , Stephanie Soldavini , Gerald Hempel , Christian Pilato , Jeronimo Castrillon

Tensor Core Units (TCUs) are hardware accelerators developed for deep neural networks, which efficiently support the multiplication of two dense $\sqrt{m}\times \sqrt{m}$ matrices, where $m$ is a given hardware parameter. In this paper, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Thomas D. Ahle , Francesco Silvestri

A modern graphics processing unit (GPU) is able to perform massively parallel scientific computations at low cost. We extend our implementation of the checkerboard algorithm for the two dimensional Ising model [T. Preis et al., J. Comp.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Benjamin Block , Peter Virnau , Tobias Preis

Fluid flow simulation is a highly active area with applications in a wide range of engineering problems and interactive systems. Meshless methods like the Moving Particle Semi-implicit (MPS) are a great alternative to deal efficiently with…

Particle tracking simulations with space charge effects are very important for high-intensity proton rings. Since they include not only Hamilton mechanics of a single particle but constructing charge densities and solving Poisson equations…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Yoshinori Kurimoto