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Machine-learning force fields can deliver accurate molecular dynamics (MD) at high computational cost. For SO(3)-equivariant models such as MACE, there is little systematic evidence on whether reduced-precision arithmetic and GPU-optimized…

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A high fidelity flow simulation for complex geometries for high Reynolds number ($Re$) flow is still very challenging, which requires more powerful computational capability of HPC system. However, the development of HPC with traditional CPU…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 Chuangchao Ye , Pengjunyi Zhang , Rui Yan , Dejun Sun , Zhenhua Wan

In this paper we develop the first fine-grained rounding error analysis of finite element (FE) cell kernels and assembly. The theory includes mixed-precision implementations and accounts for hardware-acceleration via matrix multiplication…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-17 M. Croci , G. N. Wells

Within the past years, hardware vendors have started designing low precision special function units in response to the demand of the Machine Learning community and their demand for high compute power in low precision formats. Also the…

As CMOS scaling reaches its technological limits, a radical departure from traditional von Neumann systems, which involve separate processing and memory units, is needed in order to significantly extend the performance of today's computers.…

Graph analytics techniques based on spectral methods process extremely large sparse matrices with millions or even billions of non-zero values. Behind these algorithms lies the Top-K sparse eigenproblem, the computation of the largest…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Francesco Sgherzi , Alberto Parravicini , Marco Domenico Santambrogio

The Met Office's weather and climate simulation code the Unified Model is used for both operational Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate modelling. The computational performance of the model running on parallel supercomputers is a key…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Christopher M Maynard , David N Walters

With the emergence of new high-performance computing (HPC) accelerators, such as Nvidia and AMD GPUs, efficiently targeting diverse hardware architectures has become a major challenge for HPC application developers. The increasing hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Måns I. Andersson , Martin Karp , Niclas Jansson , Stefano Markidis

Tensor decomposition has been widely used in machine learning and high-volume data analysis. However, large-scale tensor factorization often consumes huge memory and computing cost. Meanwhile, modernized computing hardware such as tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Zi Yang , Junnan Shan , Zheng Zhang

We present a mixed-precision implementation of the high-order discontinuous Galerkin method with ADER time stepping (ADER-DG) for solving hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) in the hyperbolic PDE engine ExaHyPE. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Marc Marot-Lassauzaie , Michael Bader

Exploiting low-precision computations has become a standard strategy in deep learning to address the growing computational costs imposed by ever larger models and datasets. However, naively performing all computations in low precision can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Elena Celledoni , Brynjulf Owren , Lars Ruthotto , Tianjiao Nicole Yang

We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We especially focus on optimizations for modern GPU…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Michael P. Howard , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos , Arash Nikoubashman

To solve large-scale or high-resolution topology optimization problem, a novel algorithm is developed based on modified bi-directional evolutionary structure optimization (BESO) and extended finite element method (XFEM). Within XFEM, a set…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hongxin Wang , Jie Liu , Guilin Wen

Efficient exploitation of exascale architectures requires rethinking of the numerical algorithms used in many large-scale applications. These architectures favor algorithms that expose ultra fine-grain parallelism and maximize the ratio of…

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and the dark matter distribution. Efficient lensing software is already a necessity to fully use its potential and the performance demands will only increase with the upcoming…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-12 Markus Rexroth , Christoph Schäfer , Gilles Fourestey , Jean-Paul Kneib

Support for arithmetic in multiple precisions and number formats is becoming increasingly common in emerging high-performance architectures. From a computational scientist's perspective, our goal is to determine how and where we can safely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Erin Claire Carson

Recent hardware acceleration advances have enabled powerful specialized accelerators for finite element computations, spiking neural network inference, and sparse tensor operations. However, existing approaches face fundamental limitations:…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Chuanzhen Wang , Leo Zhang , Eric Liu

The present work is targeted at performing a strong scaling study of the high-order spectral element fluid dynamics solver Nek5000. Prior studies indicated a recommendable metric for strong scalability from a theoretical viewpoint, which we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Nicolas Offermans , Oana Marin , Michel Schanen , Jing Gong , Paul Fischer , Philipp Schlatter , Aleks Obabko , Adam Peplinksi , Maxwell Hutchinson , Elia Merzari

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence and have achieved unprecedented success in cognitive tasks such as image and speech recognition. Training of large DNNs, however, is computationally…

Traditional optimization methods rely on the use of single-precision floating point arithmetic, which can be costly in terms of memory size and computing power. However, mixed precision optimization techniques leverage the use of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Basile Lewandowski , Atli Kosson