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This Article presents two optimized multi-GPU algorithms for Fock matrix construction, building on the work of Ufimtsev et al. and Barca et al. The novel algorithms, opt-UM and opt-Brc, introduce significant enhancements, including improved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Elise Palethorpe , Ryan Stocks , Giuseppe M. J. Barca

The integration of Deep Learning (DL) into experimental nuclear and particle physics has driven significant progress in simulation and reconstruction workflows. However, traditional simulation frameworks such as Geant4 remain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-04-29 James Giroux , Michael Martinez , Cristiano Fanelli

The increasing scale and wealth of inter-connected data, such as those accrued by social network applications, demand the design of new techniques and platforms to efficiently derive actionable knowledge from large-scale graphs. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Abdullah Gharaibeh , Tahsin Reza , Elizeu Santos-Neto , Lauro Beltrao Costa , Scott Sallinen , Matei Ripeanu

Hybrid pixel detectors have been invented for the LHC to make tracking and vertexing possible at all in LHC's radiation intense environment. The LHC pixel detectors have meanwhile very successfully fulfilled their promises and R\&D for the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-06 Norbert Wermes

In this paper we present Chaoticus, a Python-based package for the GPU-accelerated integration of ODE systems and the computation of chaos indicators, including SALI, GALI, Lagrangian Descriptors based indicators and the Lyapunov exponent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-02 Javier Jiménez-López , José Sáez-Landete , Victor J. García-Garrido

Digital holography (DH) enables non-contact, noninvasive 3D imaging of transparent and moving microscopic samples by capturing amplitude and phase information in a single shot. In this work, we present a compact, low-cost, real-time…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-18 Yuki Nagahama

The RICH detectors of the LHCb experiment provide identification of hadrons produced in high energy proton-proton collisions in the LHC at CERN over a wide momentum range (2 to 100 GeV/c). Cherenkov light is collected on photon detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-03-14 L. Cassina

This paper proposes to adopt advanced monolithic silicon-photonics integrated-circuits manufacturing capabilities to achieve a system-on-chip photonic-electronic linear-algebra accelerator with the features of optical comb-based broadband…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-22 Tzu-Chien Hsueh , Yeshaiahu Fainman , Bill Lin

The convex hull is a fundamental geometrical structure for many applications where groups of points must be enclosed or represented by a convex polygon. Although efficient sequential convex hull algorithms exist, and are constantly being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Alan Keith , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro

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

We present the extension of the Tinker-HP package (Lagard\`ere et al., Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 956-972) to the use of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) cards to accelerate molecular dynamics simulations using polarizable many-body force fields.…

In this paper, we demonstrate how GPU-accelerated BEM routines can be used in a simple black-box fashion to accelerate fast boundary element formulations based on Hierarchical Matrices (H-Matrices) with ACA (Adaptive Cross Approximation).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Kerstin Vater , Timo Betcke , Boris Dilba

Ants3 is a toolkit that serves as a front-end for particle simulations in Geant4 and offers a custom simulator for optical photons. It features a fully interactive Graphical User Interface and an extensive scripting system based on…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-06-10 A. Morozov , L. M. S. Margato , G. Canezin , J. Gonzalez

The progress made in accelerating simulations of fluid flow using GPUs, and the challenges that remain, are surveyed. The review first provides an introduction to GPU computing and programming, and discusses various considerations for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-04 Kyle E Niemeyer , Chih-Jen Sung

This paper presents a limited-area atmospheric simulation of a tropical cyclone accelerated using GPUs. The OpenACC directive-based programming model is used to port the atmospheric model to the GPU. The GPU implementation of the main…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Soonpil Kang , Francis X. Giraldo , Seth Camp

The LHCb detector will be upgraded to make more efficient use of the available luminosity at the LHC in Run III and extend its potential for discovery. The Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors are key components of the LHCb detector for…

While simulation tools for visible light communication (VLC) with photo detectors (PDs) have been widely investigated, similar tools for optical camera communication (OCC) with complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Srivathsan Chakaravarthi Narasimman , Arokiaswami Alphones

Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in the development of parallel hardware systems for simulating large-scale networks of spiking neurons. Compared to other highly-parallel systems, GPU-accelerated solutions have the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-22 Bruno Golosio , Gianmarco Tiddia , Chiara De Luca , Elena Pastorelli , Francesco Simula , Pier Stanislao Paolucci

The orbital propagation of large sets of initial conditions under high accuracy requirements is currently a bottleneck in the development of space missions, e.g. for planetary protection compliance analyses. The proposed approach can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Alessandro Masat , Camilla Colombo , Arnaud Boutonnet

Integrated photonic devices operating via optical nonlinearities offer a powerful solution for all optical information processing, yielding processing speeds that are well beyond that of electronic processing as well as providing the added…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-06 David J. Moss