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The challenge to fully exploit the potential of existing and upcoming scientific instruments like large single-dish radio telescopes is to process the collected massive data effectively and efficiently. As a "quasi 2D stencil computation"…

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The paper presents the aspect of use of modern graphics accelerators supporting CUDA technology for high-performance computing in the field of linear algebra. Fully programmable graphic cards have been available for several years for both…

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A new flow solver scalable on multiple Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for direct numerical simulation of wall-bounded incompressible flow is presented. This solver utilizes a previously reported work (J. Comp. Physics, vol. 352 (2018),…

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Gaussian process (GP) models are widely used to analyze spatially referenced data and to predict values at locations without observations. In contrast to many algorithmic procedures, GP models are based on a statistical framework, which…

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