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Radiative transfer simulations are now at the forefront of numerical astrophysics. They are becoming crucial for an increasing number of astrophysical and cosmological problems; at the same time their computational cost has come to the…

The vast majority of star-forming galaxies are surrounded by large reservoirs of gas ejected from the interstellar medium. Ultraviolet absorption and emission lines represent powerful diagnostics to constrain the cool phase of these…

Resonant lines are powerful probes of the interstellar and circumgalactic medium of galaxies. Their transfer in gas being a complex process, the interpretation of their observational signatures, either in absorption or in emission, is often…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Leo Michel-Dansac , Jeremy Blaizot , Thibault Garel , Anne Verhamme , Taysun Kimm , Maxime Trebitsch

Due to its accuracy and generality, Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) has emerged as the prevalent method for Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in arbitrary geometries. The standard MCRT encounters a significant efficiency barrier in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Aaron Smith , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Volker Bromm , Milos Milosavljevic

Particle transport simulations are a cornerstone of high-energy physics (HEP), constituting a substantial part of the computing workload performed in HEP. To boost the simulation throughput and energy efficiency, GPUs as accelerators have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-17 Bernhard Manfred Gruber , Guilherme Amadio , Stephan Hageböck

We describe a new implementation of a parallel Tree-SPH code with the aim to simulate Galaxy Formation and Evolution. The code has been parallelized using SHMEM, a Cray proprietary library to handle communications between the 256 processors…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cesario Lia , Giovanni Carraro

3D detailed radiative transfer is computationally taxing, since the solution of the radiative transfer equation involves traversing the six dimensional phase space of the 3D domain. With modern supercomputers the hardware available for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-05 Peter H. Hauschildt , E. Baron

Three-dimensional neutron transport calculations using the Method of Characteristics (MOC) are highly regarded for their exceptional computational efficiency, precision, and stability. Nevertheless, when dealing with extensive-scale…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Faguo Zhou , Shunde Li , Rong Xue , Lingkun Bu , Ningming Nie , Peng Shi , Jue Wang , Yun Hu , Zongguo Wang , Yangang Wang , Qinmeng Yang , Miao Yu

This paper explores strategies to transform an existing CPU-based high-performance computational fluid dynamics solver, HyPar, for compressible flow simulations on emerging exascale heterogeneous (CPU+GPU) computing platforms. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Youngdae Kim , Debojyoti Ghosh , Emil M. Constantinescu , Ramesh Balakrishnan

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

Context: Radiative transfer modelling of expanding stellar envelopes is an important task in their analysis. To account for inhomogeneities and deviations from spherical symmetry, it is necessary to develop a 3D approach to radiative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Jakub Fišák , Jiří Kubát , Brankica Kubátová , Markus Kromer , Jiří Krtička

The development and implementation of GEAR-RT, a radiative transfer solver using the M1 closure in the open source code SWIFT, is presented, and validated using standard tests for radiative transfer. GEAR-RT is modeled after RAMSES-RT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Mladen Ivkovic

Hydrogen emission lines can provide extensive information about star-forming galaxies in both the local and high-redshift Universe. We present a detailed Lyman continuum (LyC), Lyman-alpha (Ly{\alpha}), and Balmer line (H{\alpha} and…

We combine a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code with an SPH code, so that -- assuming thermal equilibrium -- we can calculate dust-temperature fields, spectral energy distributions, and isophotal maps, for the individual time-frames…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

A three dimensional parallel Monte Carlo (MC) dust radiative transfer code is presented. To overcome the huge computing time requirements of MC treatments, the computational power of vectorized hardware is used, utilizing either multi-core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Frank Heymann , Ralf Siebenmorgen

The growing disparity between computational power and on-chip communication bandwidth is a critical bottleneck in modern Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), especially for data-parallel workloads like AI. Efficient point-to-multipoint (P2MP) data…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yunhao Deng , Fanchen Kong , Xiaoling Yi , Ryan Antonio , Marian Verhelst

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated simulation package, TRED, for next-generation neutrino detectors with pixelated charge readout, leveraging community-driven software ecosystems to ensure sustainability and extensibility. We introduce…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-13 Yousen Zhang , Brett Viren , Mary Bishai , Sergey Martynenko , Xin Qian , Rado Razakamiandra , Brooke Russell

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with different kinds of GPU hardware. These clusters are directly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-09 P. Berczik , R. Spurzem , L. Wang , S. Zhong , O. Veles , I. Zinchenko , S. Huang , M. Tsai , G. Kennedy , S. Li , L. Naso , C. Li

The solar chromosphere is a region where radiation plays a critical role in energy transfer and interacts strongly with the plasma. In this layer, strong spectral lines, such as the Lyman lines, contribute significantly to radiative energy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 W. Ruan , D. Przybylski , R. Cameron , S. K. Solanki
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