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Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Blaise Agüera y Arcas , Travis Beals , Maria Biggs , Jessica V. Bloom , Thomas Fischbacher , Konstantin Gromov , Urs Köster , Rishiraj Pravahan , James Manyika

The artificial intelligence industry is not an isolated economic phenomenon; it is the current physical substrate for a broader, multi-billion-year process: the evolution of an abstract intelligence on Earth. As the scale of computation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-29 William Yicheng Zhu , Lei Zhu

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been popularized in many science and technological areas due to their capacity to solve many complex pattern matching problems. That is the case of Virtual Screening, a research area that studies how to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Christian F. Frasser , Carola de Benito , Vincent Canals , Miquel Roca , Pedro J. Ballester , Josep L. Rossello

Solvent-mediated hydrodynamic interactions between colloidal particles can significantly alter their dynamics. We discuss the implementation of Stokesian dynamics in leading approximation for streaming processors as provided by the compute…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Michael Kopp , Felix Höfling

Algorithmic entropy can be seen as a special case of entropy as studied in statistical mechanics. This viewpoint allows us to apply many techniques developed for use in thermodynamics to the subject of algorithmic information theory. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 John C. Baez , Mike Stay

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), it is foreseeable that the accuracy and efficiency of dynamic analysis for future power system will be greatly improved by the integration of dynamic simulators and AI. To explore…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Tannan Xiao , Ying Chen , Jianquan Wang , Shaowei Huang , Weilin Tong , Tirui He

Efficient parallel computing has become a pivotal element in advancing artificial intelligence. Yet, the deployment of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in this domain is hampered by their inherent sequential computational dependency. This…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Li , Yinqian Sun , Xiang He , Yiting Dong , Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng

This paper presents a multipurpose artificial intelligence (AI)-driven thermal-fluid testbed designed to advance Small Modular Reactor technologies by seamlessly integrating physical experimentation with advanced computational intelligence.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Doyeong Lim , Yang Liu , Zavier Ndum Ndum , Christian Young , Yassin Hassan

Stochastic Computing (SC) is a computing paradigm that allows for the low-cost and low-power computation of various arithmetic operations using stochastic bit streams and digital logic. In contrast to conventional representation schemes…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Corey Lammie , Jason K. Eshraghian , Wei D. Lu , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi

Dense Associative Memory networks (DenseAMs) unify several popular paradigms in Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as Hopfield Networks, transformers, and diffusion models, while casting their computational properties into the language of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Spencer Rooke , Dmitry Krotov , Vijay Balasubramanian , David Wolpert

In the paradigm of thermodynamic computing, instead of behaving deterministically, hardware undergoes a stochastic process in order to sample from a distribution of interest. While it has been hypothesized that thermodynamic computers may…

We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

As humans advance toward a higher level of artificial intelligence, it is always at the cost of escalating computational resource consumption, which requires developing novel solutions to meet the exponential growth of AI computing demand.…

Microscopic thermal machines promise to play an important role in future quantum technologies. Making such devices widely applicable will require effective strategies to channel their output into easily accessible storage systems like…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-02 Joshua Eglinton , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky , Kay Brandner

Specialized hardware accelerators aid the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), and their efficiency impacts AI's environmental sustainability. This study presents the first publication of a comprehensive AI accelerator…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ian Schneider , Hui Xu , Stephan Benecke , David Patterson , Keguo Huang , Parthasarathy Ranganathan , Cooper Elsworth

Thermodynamics of nanoscale devices is an active area of research. Despite their noisy surrounding they often produce mechanical work (e.g. micro-heat engines), display rectified Brownian motion (e.g. molecular motors). This invokes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Arnab Saha , Rahul Marathe , P. S. Pal , A. M. Jayannavar

We run a numerical linked-cluster expansion with a quantum algorithm (NLCE+QA), computing ground-state energies and one quasi-particle dispersions in the thermodynamic limit using a 20-qubit trapped-ion quantum processing unit (QPU). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lucas Marti , Sumeet , Stefan Wolf , K. P. Schmidt , Michael J. Hartmann

Edge Computing enables low-latency processing for real-time applications but introduces challenges in power management due to the distributed nature of edge devices and their limited energy resources. This paper proposes a stochastic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Fabio Diniz Rossi

As CMOS technology scales down, thermal fluctuations increasingly impact circuit behavior, posing challenges to conventional circuit design. However, the inherent stochasticity introduced by thermal noise is now being explored as a…

The objective of our research is to demonstrate the practical usage and orders of magnitude speedup of real-world applications by using alternative technologies to support high performance computing. Currently, the main barrier to the…

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