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Stochastic simulations need multiple replications in order to build confidence intervals for their results. Even if we do not need a large amount of replications, it is a good practice to speed-up the whole simulation time using the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach , Jonathan Caux , Pridi Siregar , Claude Mazel , David Hill

We provide a preliminary study on utilizing GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to accelerate computation for three simulation optimization tasks with either first-order or second-order algorithms. Compared to the implementation using only CPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jinghai He , Haoyu Liu , Yuhang Wu , Zeyu Zheng , Tingyu Zhu

We present a technique designed for parallelizing large rigid body simulations, capable of exploiting multiple CPU cores within a computer and across a network. Our approach can be applied to simulate both unilateral and bilateral…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Manas Kale , Paul G. Kry

Realistic reservoir simulation is known to be prohibitively expensive in terms of computation time when increasing the accuracy of the simulation or by enlarging the model grid size. One method to address this issue is to parallelize the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Tong Dong Qiu , Andreas Thune , Vinicius Oliveira Martins , Markus Blatt , Alf Birger Rustad , Razvan Nane

In this work, we optimize speculative sampling for parallel hardware accelerators to improve sampling speed. We notice that substantial portions of the intermediate matrices necessary for speculative sampling can be computed concurrently.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Dominik Wagner , Seanie Lee , Ilja Baumann , Philipp Seeberger , Korbinian Riedhammer , Tobias Bocklet

Traffic propagation simulation is crucial for urban planning, enabling congestion analysis, travel time estimation, and route optimization. Traditional micro-simulation frameworks are limited to main roads due to the complexity of urban…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Xuan Jiang , Raja Sengupta , James Demmel , Samuel Williams

In this paper we deal with the impact of multi and many-core processor architectures on simulation. Despite the fact that modern CPUs have an increasingly large number of cores, most softwares are still unable to take advantage of them. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-30 Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti , Moreno Marzolla

A modern graphics processing unit (GPU) is able to perform massively parallel scientific computations at low cost. We extend our implementation of the checkerboard algorithm for the two dimensional Ising model [T. Preis et al., J. Comp.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-07-22 Benjamin Block , Peter Virnau , Tobias Preis

We test the performances of two different approaches to the computation of forces for molecular dynamics simulations on Graphics Processing Units. A "vertex-based" approach, where a computing thread is started per particle, is compared to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Lorenzo Rovigatti , Petr Šulc , István Z. Reguly , Flavio Romano

Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Jizhou Liu , Fang Q. Hu , Xiaodong Li

GPUs have been widely used to accelerate computations exhibiting simple patterns of parallelism - such as flat or two-level parallelism - and a degree of parallelism that can be statically determined based on the size of the input dataset.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hancheng Wu , Da Li , Michela Becchi

The number of cores on graphical computing units (GPUs) is reaching thousands nowadays, whereas the clock speed of processors stagnates. Unfortunately, constraint programming solvers do not take advantage yet of GPU parallelism. One reason…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Pierre Talbot , Frédéric Pinel , Pascal Bouvry

With the advent of high-performance computing techniques, the data for analysis has grown significantly. Here, graphic processing unit (GPU) based program kernels are discussed to exploit parallelism in the analysis codes specific to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Gourav Shrivastav , Manish Agarwal

Parallel programming models can encourage performance portability by moving the responsibility for work assignment and data distribution from the programmer to a runtime system. However, analyzing the resulting implicit memory allocations,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Fabian Knorr , Philip Salzmann , Peter Thoman , Thomas Fahringer

The rapidly growing popularity and scale of data-parallel workloads demand a corresponding increase in raw computational power of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). As single-GPU systems struggle to satisfy the performance demands, multi-GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yifan Sun , Trinayan Baruah , Saiful A. Mojumder , Shi Dong , Rafael Ubal , Xiang Gong , Shane Treadway , Yuhui Bao , Vincent Zhao , José L. Abellán , John Kim , Ajay Joshi , David Kaeli

Prior work on Automatically Scalable Computation (ASC) suggests that it is possible to parallelize sequential computation by building a model of whole-program execution, using that model to predict future computations, and then…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Peter Kraft , Amos Waterland , Daniel Y Fu , Anitha Gollamudi , Shai Szulanski , Margo Seltzer

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

As fusion energy devices advance, plasma simulations are crucial for reactor design. Our work extends BIT1 hybrid parallelization by integrating MPI with OpenMP and OpenACC, focusing on asynchronous multi-GPU programming. Results show…

Due to their highly parallel multi-cores architecture, GPUs are being increasingly used in a wide range of computationally intensive applications. Compared to CPUs, GPUs can achieve higher performances at accelerating the programs'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Frédéric Magoulès , Abal-Kassim Cheik Ahamed , Alban Desmaison , Jean-Christophe Léchenet , François Mayer , Haifa Ben Salem , Thomas Zhu

We discuss the efficiency of parallelization on graphical processing units (GPUs) for the simulation of the one dimensional Potts model with long range interactions via parallel tempering. We investigate the behaviour of some thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Boer