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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…

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We created an efficient algorithm suitable for graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform Monte Carlo simulations of a subset of reaction-diffusion models. The algorithm uses techniques that are specific to GPU programming, and combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 R. D. Schram

The risk of reinsurance portfolios covering globally occurring natural catastrophes, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, is quantified by employing simulations. These simulations are computationally intensive and require large amounts of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Blesson Varghese

We describe the GPU implementation of shifted or multimass iterative solvers for sparse linear systems of the sort encountered in lattice gauge theory. We provide a generic tool that can be used by those without GPU programming experience…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-02-16 Richard Galvez , Greg van Anders

In recent years, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has emerged as a low-cost alternative for high performance computing, enabling impressive speed-ups for a range of scientific computing applications. Early adopters in astronomy are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-23 Christopher J. Fluke

The LHC experiments are designed to detect large amount of physics events produced with a very high rate. Considering the future upgrades, the data acquisition rate will become even higher and new computing paradigms must be adopted for…

Matlab is very widely used in scientific computing, but Matlab computational efficiency is lower than C language program. In order to improve the computing speed, some toolbox can use GPU to accelerate the computation. This paper describes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Mingzhe Wang , Bo Wang , Qiu He , Xiuxiu Liu , Kunshuai Zhu

The cryosphere plays a significant role in Earth's climate system. Therefore, an accurate simulation of sea ice is of great importance to improve climate projections. To enable higher resolution simulations, graphics processing units (GPUs)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Robert Jendersie , Christian Lessig , Thomas Richter

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are specialized accelerators in data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems, enabling the fast execution of compute-intensive applications, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).…

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Solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions between colloidal particles can significantly alter their dynamics. We discuss the implementation of Stokesian dynamics in leading approximation for streaming processors as provided by the compute…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Michael Kopp , Felix Höfling

Biological neural networks are often modeled as systems of coupled, nonlinear, ordinary or partial differential equations. The number of differential equations used to model a network increases with the size of the network and the level of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-08-09 Rishika Mohanta , Collins Assisi

With an ongoing trend in computing hardware towards increased heterogeneity, domain-specific co-processors are emerging as alternatives to centralized paradigms. The tensor core unit (TPU) has shown to outperform graphic process units by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-24 Mario Miscuglio , Volker J. Sorger

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

This study introduces a hybrid fluid simulation approach that integrates generative diffusion models with physics-based simulations, aiming at reducing the computational costs of flow simulations while still honoring all the physical…

This paper presents, to the author's knowledge, the first graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated program that solves the evolution of interacting scalar fields in an expanding universe. We present the implementation in NVIDIA's Compute…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Jani Sainio

Leveraging Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate scientific software has proven to be highly successful, but in order to extract more performance, GPU programmers must overcome the high latency costs associated with their use. One…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Jacob Faibussowitsch , Mark F. Adams , Richard Tran Mills , Stefano Zampini , Junchao Zhang

Realistic reservoir simulation is known to be prohibitively expensive in terms of computation time when increasing the accuracy of the simulation or by enlarging the model grid size. One method to address this issue is to parallelize the…

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In this paper, we accelerate a gravitational physics numerical modelling application using hardware accelerators -- Cell processor and Tesla CUDA GPU. We describe these new technologies and our approach in detail, and then present our final…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-23 Gaurav Khanna , Justin McKennon

Hydrodynamics calculations have been successfully used in studies of the bulk properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, particularly of elliptic flow and shear viscosity. However, there are areas (for instance event-by-event simulations for…

A computer simulation has to be fast to be helpful, if it is employed to study the behavior of a multicomponent dynamic system. This paper discusses modeling concepts and algorithmic techniques useful for creating such fast simulations.…

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