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High-fidelity physics simulations are powerful tools in the design and optimization of charged particle accelerators. However, the computational burden of these simulations often limits their use in practice for design optimization and…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Auralee Edelen , Nicole Neveu , Yannick Huber , Mattias Frey , Christopher Mayes , Andreas Adelmann

We present new results on the strong parallel scaling for the OpenACC-accelerated implementation of the high-order spectral element fluid dynamics solver Nek5000. The test case considered consists of a direct numerical simulation of…

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

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

Integrated Sensing And Communication (ISAC)forms a symbiosis between the human need for communication and the need for increasing productivity, by extracting environmental information leveraging the communication network. As multiple…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-06 M. Arnold , M. Bauhofer , S. Mandelli , M. Henninger , F. Schaich , T. Wild , S. ten Brink

The high computational expense of simulating light through ray-tracing in large, sparsely instrumented particle detectors such as IceCube and Antares is a critical outstanding problem in particle physics. When the detector is sparsely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-13 Gabriel H. Collin

Embedded Software development and optimization are complex tasks. Late availably of hardware platforms, their usual low visibility and controllability, and their limiting resource constraints makes early performance estimation an attractive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-19 David Castells-Rufas , Jordi Carrabina , Pablo González de Aledo Marugán , Pablo Sánchez Espeso

We introduce synax, a novel library for automatically differentiable simulation of Galactic synchrotron emission. Built on the JAX framework, synax leverages JAX's capabilities, including batch acceleration, just-in-time compilation, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 Kangning Diao , Zack Li , Richard D. P. Grumitt , Yi Mao

In a random ray method of neutral particle transport simulation, each iteration begins by sampling a set of rays before proceeding to solve the characteristic transport equation along the linear paths the rays follow. Historically,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Samuel Pasmann , John Tramm

We propose NerfAcc, a toolbox for efficient volumetric rendering of radiance fields. We build on the techniques proposed in Instant-NGP, and extend these techniques to not only support bounded static scenes, but also for dynamic scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Ruilong Li , Matthew Tancik , Angjoo Kanazawa

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently released high-resolution images of accretion flows onto two supermassive black holes. Our physical understanding of these images depends on accuracy and precision of numerical models of plasma…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Monika Moscibrodzka , Aristomenis Yfantis

Most Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) algorithms require a prohibitively large number of training samples for learning complex tasks. Many recent works on speeding up Deep RL have focused on distributed training and simulation. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jacky Liang , Viktor Makoviychuk , Ankur Handa , Nuttapong Chentanez , Miles Macklin , Dieter Fox

Fast, incremental evolution of physics instrumentation raises the question of efficient software abstraction and transferability of algorithms across similar technologies. This contribution aims to provide an answer by introducing Track…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-08 Petr Mánek , Petr Burian , Eric David-Bosne , Petr Smolyanskiy , Benedikt Bergmann

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band will provide multi-gigabits-per-second connectivity in the radio access of future wireless systems. The high propagation loss in this portion of the spectrum calls for the deployment of large antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Michele Polese , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Process variations are a major concern in today's chip design since they can significantly degrade chip performance. To predict such degradation, existing circuit and MEMS simulators rely on Monte Carlo algorithms, which are typically too…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Zheng Zhang , Xiu Yang , Giovanni Marucci , Paolo Maffezzoni , Ibrahim , M. Elfadel , George Em Karniadakis , Luca Daniel

Because of the superior feature representation ability of deep learning, various deep Click-Through Rate (CTR) models are deployed in the commercial systems by industrial companies. To achieve better performance, it is necessary to train…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Huifeng Guo , Wei Guo , Yong Gao , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Wenzhi Liu

A simple Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for the simulation of the passage of low-energy gamma rays and electrons through any material medium is presented. The algorithm includes several approximations that accelerate the simulation while…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Víctor Moya , Jaime Rosado , Fernando Arqueros

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is considered the gold standard method for radiotherapy dose calculation. However, achieving high precision requires a large number of simulation histories, which is time consuming. The use of computer graphics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Ti Bai , Biling Wang , Dan Nguyen , Steve Jiang

The matrix element (ME) calculation in any Monte Carlo physics event generator is an ideal fit for implementing data parallelism with lockstep processing on GPUs and vector CPUs. For complex physics processes where the ME calculation is the…

The advent of hardware ray tracing (RT) units has brought unprecedented realism to real-time rendered computer graphics. However, the potential of these units extends beyond graphics, offering acceleration for various computational tasks…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Fangjia Shen , Aaron Barnes , Anusuya Nallathambi , Timothy G. Rogers