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Commercial graphics processors (GPUs) have high compute capacity at very low cost, which makes them attractive for general purpose scientific computing. In this paper we show how graphics processors can be used for N-body simulations to…

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NVIDIA has been making steady progress in increasing the compute performance of its GPUs, resulting in order of magnitude compute throughput improvements over the years. With several models of GPUs coexisting in many deployments, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Igor Sfiligoi , David Schultz , Frank Würthwein , Benedikt Riedel , Dmitry Y. Mishin

A finite-difference Micromagnetic simulation code written in MATLAB is presented with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. The high performance of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is demonstrated compared to a typical Central…

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Optical flow computation with frame-based cameras provides high accuracy but the speed is limited either by the model size of the algorithm or by the frame rate of the camera. This makes it inadequate for high-speed applications. Event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Ashwin Sanjay Lele , Arijit Raychowdhury

The rapid expansion of generative AI drives unprecedented demands for high-performance computing. Training large-scale AI models now requires vast interconnected GPU clusters across multiple data centers. Multi-scale AI training and…

We present highly efficient algorithms for performing forward and backward propagation of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for pixelwise classification on images. For pixelwise classification tasks, such as image segmentation and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Hongsheng Li , Rui Zhao , Xiaogang Wang

Oscillation probability calculations are becoming increasingly CPU intensive in modern neutrino oscillation analyses. The independency of reweighting individual events in a Monte Carlo sample lends itself to parallel implementation on a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-05-12 R. G. Calland , A. C. Kaboth , D. Payne

Purpose: Very fast Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of proton transport have been implemented recently on GPUs. However, these usually use simplified models for non-elastic (NE) proton-nucleus interactions. Our primary goal is to build a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. Wan Chan Tseung , J. Ma , C. Beltran

Loopy Belief Propagation (LBP) is a widely used approximate inference algorithm in probabilistic graphical models, with applications in computer vision, error correction codes, protein folding, program analysis, etc. However, LBP faces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Haoyu Feng , Xin Zhang

Optical computing offers ultrafast, energy-efficient alternatives to conventional digital processors, yet most implementations remain confined to single-channel processing, severely underutilizing light's information capacity. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fatma Nur Kılınç , Uğur Teğin

For the problem whether Graphic Processing Unit(GPU),the stream processor with high performance of floating-point computing is applicable to neural networks, this paper proposes the parallel recognition algorithm of Convolutional Neural…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yi-bin Huang , Kang Li , Ge Wang , Min Cao , Pin Li , Yu-jia Zhang

High-efficiency photon-pair production is a long-sought-after goal for many optical quantum technologies, and coherent photon conversion processes are promising candidates for achieving this. We show theoretically how to control coherent…

A key resource for quantum optics experiments is an on-demand source of single and multiple photon states at telecommunication wavelengths. This letter presents a heralded single photon source based on a hybrid technology approach,…

Convolutional gridding is a processor-intensive step in interferometric imaging. While it is possible to use graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate this operation, existing methods use only a fraction of the available flops. We…

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Photon detection is important for liquid argon detectors for direct dark matter searches or neutrino property measurements. Precise simulation of photon transport is widely used to understand the probability of photon detection in liquid…

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We present a novel, easy-to-use method based on the photon-mapping technique to simulate photometric images of moving targets. Realistic images can be created in two passes: photon tracing and image rendering. The nature of light sources,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Junju Du , Shaoming Hu , Xu Chen , Hai Cao , Yuchen Jiang

Recently, Google proposes DDVM which for the first time demonstrates that a general diffusion model for image-to-image translation task works impressively well on optical flow estimation task without any specific designs like RAFT. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Qiaole Dong , Bo Zhao , Yanwei Fu

Photon-photon interactions are an essential requirement of quantum photonic information processing. One way to generate these interactions is to utilize an atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity. This system exhibits the photon blockade…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Harjot Singh , Edo Waks

Gravitational lensing calculation using a direct inverse ray-shooting approach is a computationally expensive way to determine magnification maps, caustic patterns, and light-curves (e.g. as a function of source profile and size). However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Alexander C. Thompson , Christopher J. Fluke , David G. Barnes , Benjamin R. Barsdell

Point cloud is a critical 3D representation with many emerging applications. Because of the point sparsity and irregularity, high-quality rendering of point clouds is challenging and often requires complex computations to recover the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yueyu Hu , Ran Gong , Qi Sun , Yao Wang