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This paper explores practical aspects of using a high-level functional language for GPU-based arithmetic on ``midsize'' integers. By this we mean integers of up to about a quarter million bits, which is sufficient for most practical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Cosmin E. Oancea , Stephen M. Watt

In this short review we present the developments over the last 5 decades that have led to the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for astrophysical simulations. Since the introduction of NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeroen Bédorf , Simon Portegies Zwart

Computer vision applications, especially those using augmented reality technology, are becoming quite popular in mobile devices. However, this type of application is known as presenting significant demands regarding resources. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Fabio Diniz Rossi

GPUs are vastly underutilized, even when running resource-intensive AI applications, as GPU kernels within each job have diverse resource profiles that may saturate some parts of a device while often leaving other parts idle. Colocating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Elvinger , Foteini Strati , Natalie Enright Jerger , Ana Klimovic

Modern supercomputers are increasingly relying on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and other accelerators to achieve exa-scale performance at reasonable energy usage. The challenge of exploiting these accelerators is the incompatibility…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 M. Cianciosa , D. Batchelor , W. Elwasif

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become an integral part of High-Performance Computing to achieve an Exascale performance. The main goal of application developers of GPU is to tune their code extensively to obtain optimal performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Gargi Alavani , Santonu Sarkar

In the paper, a parallel Tabu Search algorithm for the Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem is proposed. To deal with this NP-hard combinatorial problem many optimizations have been performed. For example, a resource evaluation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Libor Bukata , Premysl Sucha , Zdenek Hanzalek

High-performance computing has recently seen a surge of interest in heterogeneous systems, with an emphasis on modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). These devices offer tremendous potential for performance and efficiency in important…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Andreas Klöckner , Nicolas Pinto , Yunsup Lee , Bryan Catanzaro , Paul Ivanov , Ahmed Fasih

In this paper, we report an optimized union-find (UF) algorithm that can label the connected components on a 2D image efficiently by employing the GPU architecture. The proposed method contains three phases: UF-based local merge, boundary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-30 Jun Chen , Qiang Yao , Houari Sabirin , Keisuke Nonaka , Hiroshi Sankoh , Sei Naito

The Poisson-Fermi model is an extension of the classical Poisson-Boltzmann model to include the steric and correlation effects of ions and water treated as nonuniform spheres in aqueous solutions. Poisson-Boltzmann electrostatic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Jen-Hao Chen , Ren-Chuen Chen , Jinn-Liang Liu

The problem of computing the Betweenness Centrality (BC) is important in analyzing graphs in many practical applications like social networks, biological networks, transportation networks, electrical circuits, etc. Since this problem is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Saad Quader

Bloom filters are a fundamental data structure for approximate membership queries, with applications ranging from data analytics to databases and genomics. Several variants have been proposed to accommodate parallel architectures. GPUs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Daniel Jünger , Kevin Kristensen , Yunsong Wang , Xiangyao Yu , Bertil Schmidt

We present a convex hull algorithm that is accelerated on commodity graphics hardware. We analyze and identify the hurdles of writing a recursive divide and conquer algorithm on the GPU and divise a framework for representing this class of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Stanley Tzeng , John D. Owens

Parallel data processing has become indispensable for processing applications involving huge data sets. This brings into focus the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) which emphasize on many-core computing. With the advent of General Purpose…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-22 Poorna Banerjee , Amit Dave

To assess how future progress in gravitational microlensing computation at high optical depth will rely on both hardware and software solutions, we compare a direct inverse ray-shooting code implemented on a graphics processing unit (GPU)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 N. F. Bate , C. J. Fluke , B. R. Barsdell , H. Garsden , G. F. Lewis

The last decade has seen a shift in the computer systems industry where heterogeneous computing has become prevalent. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now present in supercomputers to mobile phones and tablets. GPUs are used for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Yehia Arafa , Abdel-Hameed Badawy , Gopinath Chennupati , Nandakishore Santhi , Stephan Eidenbenz

Due to the variety and importance of applications of treecodes and FMM, the combination of algorithmic acceleration with hardware acceleration can have tremendous impact. Alas, programming these algorithms efficiently is no piece of cake.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 Rio Yokota , Lorena Barba

This paper introduces cuVegas, a CUDA-based implementation of the Vegas Enhanced Algorithm (VEGAS+), optimized for multi-dimensional integration in GPU environments. The VEGAS+ algorithm is an advanced form of Monte Carlo integration,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Emiliano Tolotti , Anas Jnini , Flavio Vella , Roberto Passerone

Modern graphics computing units (GPUs) are designed and optimized to perform highly parallel numerical calculations. This parallelism has enabled (and promises) significant advantages, both in terms of energy performance and calculation. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quentin Gallouédec

We present our implementation of the RHMC algorithm for staggered fermions on Graphics Processing Units using the NVIDIA CUDA programming language. While previous studies exclusively deal with the Dirac matrix inversion problem, our code…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-12-15 Claudio Bonati , Guido Cossu , Massimo D'Elia , Adriano Di Giacomo