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Granular materials are of critical interest to many robotic tasks in planetary science, construction, and manufacturing. However, the dynamics of granular materials are complex and often computationally very expensive to simulate. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-05 David Millard , Daniel Pastor , Joseph Bowkett , Paul Backes , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

Data-driven machine learning methods have the potential to dramatically accelerate the rate of materials design over conventional human-guided approaches. These methods would help identify or, in the case of generative models, even create…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-28 Victor Fung , Shuyi Jia , Jiaxin Zhang , Sirui Bi , Junqi Yin , P. Ganesh

I describe here the performance of a parallel treecode with individual particle timesteps. The code is based on the Barnes-Hut algorithm and runs cosmological N-body simulations on parallel machines with a distributed memory architecture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Valdarnini

We present efficient algorithms to build data structures and the lists needed for fast multipole methods. The algorithms are capable of being efficiently implemented on both serial, data parallel GPU and on distributed architectures. With…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-01-10 Qi Hu , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

We present an implementation of the hierarchical tree algorithm on the individual timestep algorithm (the Hermite scheme) for collisional $N$-body simulations, running on GRAPE-9 system, a special-purpose hardware accelerator for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Toshiyuki Fukushige , Atsushi Kawai

CNOT circuits are a common building block of general quantum circuits. The problem of synthesizing and optimizing such circuits has received a lot of attention in the quantum computing literature. This problem is especially challenging for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Nir Gavrielov , Alexander Ivrii , Shelly Garion

The construction of cut trees (also known as Gomory-Hu trees) for a given graph enables the minimum-cut size of the original graph to be obtained for any pair of vertices. Cut trees are a powerful back-end for graph management and mining,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Takuya Akiba , Yoichi Iwata , Yosuke Sameshima , Naoto Mizuno , Yosuke Yano

Physics-based simulation has been actively employed in generating offline visual effects in the film and animation industry. However, the computations required for high-quality scenarios are generally immense, deterring its adoption in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Yun Fei , Yuhan Huang , Ming Gao

A crucial aspect of 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer is the choice of the spatial grid used to partition the dusty medium. We critically investigate the use of octree grids in Monte Carlo dust radiative transfer, with two different octree…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 W. Saftly , P. Camps , M. Baes , K. D. Gordon , S. Vandewoude , A. Rahimi , M. Stalevski

We present O-CNN, an Octree-based Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for 3D shape analysis. Built upon the octree representation of 3D shapes, our method takes the average normal vectors of a 3D model sampled in the finest leaf octants as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Peng-Shuai Wang , Yang Liu , Yu-Xiao Guo , Chun-Yu Sun , Xin Tong

High-performance computing (HPC) has revolutionized our ability to perform detailed simulations of complex real-world processes. A prominent contemporary example is from aerospace propulsion, where HPC is used for rotating detonation rocket…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Ionut-Gabriel Farcas , Rayomand P. Gundevia , Ramakanth Munipalli , Karen E. Willcox

Robust trajectory optimization enables autonomous systems to operate safely under uncertainty by computing control policies that satisfy the constraints for all bounded disturbances. However, these problems often lead to large Second Order…

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We present Shamrock, a performance portable framework developed in C++17 with the SYCL programming standard, tailored for numerical astrophysics on Exascale architectures. The core of Shamrock is an accelerated parallel tree with negligible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Timothée David--Cléris , Guillaume Laibe , Yona Lapeyre

We integrate random sketching techniques into block orthogonalization schemes needed for s-step GMRES. The resulting block orthogonalization schemes generate the basis vectors whose overall orthogonality error is bounded by machine…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Ichitaro Yamazaki , Andrew J. Higgins , Erik G. Boman , Daniel B. Szyld

Building a spanning tree, minimum spanning tree (MST), and BFS tree in a distributed network are fundamental problems which are still not fully understood in terms of time and communication cost. x The first work to succeed in computing a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Ali Mashreghi , Valerie King

Extracting a Construction Tree from potentially noisy point clouds is an important aspect of Reverse Engineering tasks in Computer Aided Design. Solutions based on algorithmic geometry impose constraints on usable model representations…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Markus Friedrich , Sebastian Feld , Thomy Phan , Pierre-Alain Fayolle

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

Grid space partitioning is a technique to speed up queries to graphics databases. We present a parallel grid construction algorithm which can efficiently construct a structured grid on GPU hardware. Our approach is substantially faster than…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Vasco Costa , João M. Pereira , Joaquim Jorge

TensorNetwork is an open source library for implementing tensor network algorithms in TensorFlow. We describe a tree tensor network (TTN) algorithm for approximating the ground state of either a periodic quantum spin chain (1D) or a lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-07 Ashley Milsted , Martin Ganahl , Stefan Leichenauer , Jack Hidary , Guifre Vidal

Molecular dynamics simulations can generate atomically detailed trajectories of complex systems, but analyzing these dynamics can be challenging when systems lack well-established quantitative descriptors (features). Graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zihan Pengmei , Spencer C. Guo , Chatipat Lorpaiboon , Aaron R. Dinner