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The recent improvements of graphics processing units (GPU) offer to the computer vision community a powerful processing platform. Indeed, a lot of highly-parallelizable computer vision problems can be significantly accelerated using GPU…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-04-10 Vincent Garcia , Eric Debreuve , Michel Barlaud

The era of GPU-powered data analytics has arrived. In this paper, we argue that recent advances in hardware (e.g., larger GPU memory, faster interconnect and IO, and declining cost) and software (e.g., composable data systems and mature…

Large-scale distributed graph-parallel computing is challenging. On one hand, due to the irregular computation pattern and lack of locality, it is hard to express parallelism efficiently. On the other hand, due to the scale-free nature,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Jie Yan , Guangming Tan , Ninghui Sun

The open-source PyNX toolkit [Favre-Nicolin et al (2011) arXiv:1010.2641, Mandula et al (2016)] has been extended to provide tools for coherent X-ray imaging data analysis and simulation. All calculations can be executed on graphical…

Existing learned indexes (e.g., RMI, ALEX, PGM) optimize the internal regressor of each node, not the overall structure such as index height, the size of each layer, etc. In this paper, we share our recent findings that we can achieve…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Supawit Chockchowwat , Wenjie Liu , Yongjoo Park

Neural models have transformed the fundamental information retrieval problem of mapping a query to a giant set of items. However, the need for efficient and low latency inference forces the community to reconsider efficient approximate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Gaurav Gupta , Tharun Medini , Anshumali Shrivastava , Alexander J Smola

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a critical sensing technology that is notably independent of the sensor-to-target distance and has numerous cross-cutting applications, e.g., target recognition, mapping, surveillance, oceanography,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-25 Andrew R. Willis , Md Sajjad Hossain , Jamie Godwin

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

As an important application of spatial databases in pathology imaging analysis, cross-comparing the spatial boundaries of a huge amount of segmented micro-anatomic objects demands extremely data- and compute-intensive operations, requiring…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Kaibo Wang , Yin Huai , Rubao Lee , Fusheng Wang , Xiaodong Zhang , Joel H. Saltz

In recent years, applications such as real-time simulations, autonomous systems, and video games increasingly demand the processing of complex geometric models under stringent time constraints. Traditional geometric algorithms, including…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Roberto Carrasco , Enzo Meneses , Hector Ferrada , Cristobal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

X-ray ptychography imaging at synchrotron facilities like the Advanced Photon Source (APS) involves controlling instrument hardwares to collect a set of diffraction patterns from overlapping coherent illumination spots on extended samples,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-10 Ke Yue , Junjing Deng , Yi Jiang , Youssef Nashed , David Vine , Stefan Vogt

Matrix multiplication is a fundamental operation in both training of neural networks and inference. To accelerate matrix multiplication, Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) provide it implemented in hardware. Due to the increased throughput…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Faizan A. Khattak , Mantas Mikaitis

We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jérome Eertmans , Sophie Lequeu , Benoît Legat , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

The paper presents the aspect of use of modern graphics accelerators supporting CUDA technology for high-performance computing in the field of linear algebra. Fully programmable graphic cards have been available for several years for both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Lukasz Swierczewski

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

Range-filtered approximate nearest neighbor search (RFANNS) is increasingly critical for modern vector databases. However, existing solutions suffer from severe index inflation and construction overhead. Furthermore, they rely exclusively…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zhonggen Li , Haoran Yu , Zixuan Xu , Yifan Zhu , Yunjun Gao

The use of graphics processors (GPUs) is a promising approach to speed up model checking to such an extent that it becomes feasible to instantly verify software systems during development. GPUexplore is an explicit-state model checker that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Nathan Cassee , Thomas Neele , Anton Wijs

Supercomputers are equipped with an increasingly large number of cores to use computational power as a way of solving problems that are otherwise intractable. Unfortunately, getting serial algorithms to run in parallel to take advantage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Khuzaima Daudjee , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

While it is well-known and acknowledged that the performance of graph algorithms is heavily dependent on the input data, there has been surprisingly little research to quantify and predict the impact the graph structure has on performance.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Merijn Verstraaten , Ana Lucia Varbanescu , Cees de Laat

We consider deployment of the particle filter on modern massively parallel hardware architectures, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), with a focus on the resampling stage. While standard multinomial and stratified resamplers require…

Computation · Statistics 2012-02-29 Lawrence Murray