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We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on…

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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…

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This paper presents a novel, high-performance, graphical processing unit-based algorithm for efficiently solving two-dimensional linear programs in batches. The domain of two-dimensional linear programs is particularly useful due to the…

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3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) is a new rendering approach that outperforms the neural radiance field (NeRF) in terms of both speed and image quality. 3D-GS represents 3D scenes by utilizing millions of 3D Gaussians and projects these…

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Research on differentiable scene representations is consistently moving towards more efficient, real-time models. Recently, this has led to the popularization of splatting methods, which eschew the traditional ray-based rendering of…

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Matrix multiplication is a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, yet its computational complexity makes it a significant bottleneck for large-scale applications. The shift to parallel architectures, primarily…

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Searching for sources of electromagnetic emission in spectral-line radio astronomy interferometric data is a computationally intensive process. Parallel programming techniques and High Performance Computing hardware may be used to improve…

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has become a leading technique for real-time neural rendering and 3D scene reconstruction, but its rendering cost remains too high for many latency-sensitive scenarios. In particular, the rasterization stage in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sheng Li , Yang Sui , Yue Wu , Zhuoran Song , Bo Yuan , Xulong Tang , Yue Dai

Scientific optical 3D modeling requires the possibility to implement highly flexible and customizable mathematical models as well as high computing power. However, established ray tracing software for optical design and modeling purposes…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Andrej Keksel , Samuel Schmidt , Dietrich Beck , Jörg Seewig

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) enables 3D scene reconstruction from several 2D images but incurs high rendering latency via its point-sampling design. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) improves on NeRF with explicit scene representation and an…

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Fast 4$\pi$ solid angle particle track recognition has been a challenge in particle physics for a long time, especially in using nuclear emulsion detectors. The recent advances in computing technology opened the way for its realization. A…

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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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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…

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Ray tracing has long been the holy grail of real time rendering. This technique, commonly used for photo realism, simulates the physical behavior of light, at the cost of being computationally heavy. With the introduction of Nvidia RTX…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Pedro Granja , João Pereira

We develop methods for accelerating metric similarity search that are effective on modern hardware. Our algorithms factor into easily parallelizable components, making them simple to deploy and efficient on multicore CPUs and GPUs. Despite…

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Modern GPUs come with dedicated hardware to perform ray/triangle intersections and bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) traversal. While the primary use case for this hardware is photorealistic 3D computer graphics, with careful algorithm design…

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Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shijie Yan , Douglas Dwyer , David R. Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

The FastGeodis package provides an efficient implementation for computing Geodesic and Euclidean distance transforms (or a mixture of both), targeting efficient utilisation of CPU and GPU hardware. In particular, it implements the…

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