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Support for lower precision computation is becoming more common in accelerator hardware due to lower power usage, reduced data movement and increased computational performance. However, computational science and engineering (CSE) problems…

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The fast multipole method (FMM) has received growing attention in the beam physics simulation. In this study, we formulate an interpolation-based FMM for the computation of the relativistic space-charge field. Different to the…

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Inverse rendering aims to decompose a scene into its geometry, material properties and light conditions under a certain rendering model. It has wide applications like view synthesis, relighting, and scene editing. In recent years, inverse…

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The Nvidia GPU architecture has introduced new computing elements such as the \textit{tensor cores}, which are special processing units dedicated to perform fast matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) operations and accelerate \textit{Deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Roberto Carrasco , Raimundo Vega , Cristóbal A. Navarro

We describe the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for speeding up the code NBODY6 which is widely used for direct $N$-body simulations. Over the years, the $N^2$ nature of the direct force calculation has proved a barrier for…

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This research proposes a practical method for detecting featureless objects by using image alignment approach with a robust similarity measure in industrial applications. This similarity measure is robust against occlusion, illumination…

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Purpose: Cone-beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy (IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures raises a clinical concern, especially for pediatric patients who…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Xun Jia , Yifei Lou , Ruijiang Li , William Y. Song , Steve B. Jiang

Representing and rendering dynamic scenes has been an important but challenging task. Especially, to accurately model complex motions, high efficiency is usually hard to guarantee. To achieve real-time dynamic scene rendering while also…

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We recently built an analytical source model for GPU-based MC dose engine. In this paper, we present a sampling strategy to efficiently utilize this source model in GPU-based dose calculation. Our source model was based on a concept of…

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Hardware trends have motivated the development of mixed precision algo-rithms in numerical linear algebra, which aim to decrease runtime while maintaining acceptable accuracy. One recent development is the development of an adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Noaman Khan , Erin Carson

Recent advances in view synthesis and real-time rendering have achieved photorealistic quality at impressive rendering speeds. While Radiance Field-based methods achieve state-of-the-art quality in challenging scenarios such as in-the-wild…

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Motion planning is a fundamental problem in robotics that involves generating feasible trajectories for a robot to follow. Recent advances in parallel computing, particularly through CPU and GPU architectures, have significantly reduced…

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Graph-based Light Field coding using the concept of super-rays is powerful to exploit signal redundancy along irregular shapes and achieves good energy compaction, compared to rectangular block -based approaches. However, its main…

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Implicit neural representations (INRs) recently achieved great success in image representation and compression, offering high visual quality and fast rendering speeds with 10-1000 FPS, assuming sufficient GPU resources are available.…

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In recent years, a new kind of accelerated hardware has gained popularity in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) communities which enables extremely high-performance tensor contractions in reduced precision for deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Adela Habib , Joshua Finkelstein , Anders M. N. Niklasson

We present the methodology of a photon-conserving, spatially-adaptive, ray-tracing radiative transfer algorithm, designed to run on multiple parallel Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). Each GPU has thousands computing cores, making them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

We examine implicit representations of parametric or point cloud models, based on interpolation matrices, which are not sensitive to base points. We show how interpolation matrices can be used for ray shooting of a parametric ray with a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christos Konaxis , Ilias S. Kotsireas , Clement Laroche

The contouring methods described by Lewis et al. (1993) and Witt (1993) are very efficient and elegant for obtaining the magnification of a point source moving along a straight track in the source plane. The method is, however, not very…

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Interferometric radio telescopes often rely on computationally expensive O(N^2) correlation calculations; fortunately these computations map well to massively parallel accelerators such as low-cost GPUs. This paper describes the OpenCL…

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