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The ISO C++17 standard introduces \emph{parallel algorithms}, a parallel programming model promising portability across a wide variety of parallel hardware including multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Since 2019, the NVIDIA HPC SDK compiler…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Uzmar Gomez , Gonzalo Brito Gadeschi , Tobias Weinzierl

We describe the first parallel implementation of an adaptive particle-particle, particle-mesh code with smoothed particle hydrodynamics. Parallelisation of the serial code, ``Hydra'', is achieved by using CRAFT, a Cray proprietary language…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. R. Pearce , H. M. P. Couchman

Emission features formed through Raman scattering with atomic hydrogen provide unique and crucial information to probe the distribution and kinematics of a thick neutral region illuminated by a strong far UV emission source. We introduce a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Seok-Jun Chang , Hee-Won Lee

Numerical heating in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes currently precludes the accurate simulation of cold, relativistic plasma over long periods, severely limiting their applications in astrophysical environments. We present a spatially…

Simulations of galaxy formation follow the gravitational and hydrodynamical interactions between gas, stars and dark matter through cosmic time. The huge dynamic range of such calculations severely limits strong scaling behaviour of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 Tom Theuns , Aidan Chalk , Matthieu Schaller , Pedro Gonnet

We present the implementation of a radiative transfer solver with coherent scattering in the new BIFROST code for radiative magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) simulations of stellar surface convection. The code is fully parallelized using MPI…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 W. Hayek , M. Asplund , M. Carlsson , R. Trampedach , R. Collet , B. V. Gudiksen , V. H. Hansteen , J. Leenaarts

Narrow-band Lya line and broad-band continuum have played important roles in the discovery of high-redshift galaxies in recent years. Hence, it is crucial to study the radiative transfer of both Lya and continuum photons in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hidenobu Yajima , Yuexing Li , Qirong Zhu , Tom Abel

Today's high-performance computing (HPC) applications are producing vast volumes of data, which are challenging to store and transfer efficiently during the execution, such that data compression is becoming a critical technique to mitigate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiannan Tian , Cody Rivera , Sheng Di , Jieyang Chen , Xin Liang , Dingwen Tao , Franck Cappello

Modern heterogeneous supercomputing systems are comprised of CPUs, GPUs, and high-speed network interconnects. Communication libraries supporting efficient data transfers involving memory buffers from the GPU memory typically require the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Naveen Namashivayam , Krishna Kandalla , James B White , Larry Kaplan , Mark Pagel

Scientific applications produce vast amounts of data, posing grand challenges in the underlying data management and analytic tasks. Progressive compression is a promising way to address this problem, as it allows for on-demand data…

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The ROOT TTree data format encodes hundreds of petabytes of High Energy and Nuclear Physics events. Its columnar layout drives rapid analyses, as only those parts ("branches") that are really used in a given analysis need to be read from…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Jakob Blomer , Philippe Canal , Axel Naumann , Danilo Piparo

Transformer neural networks are rapidly being integrated into state-of-the-art solutions for natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision. However, the complex structure of these models creates challenges for accelerating their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Salma Afifi , Febin Sunny , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

General relativistic radiative transfer calculations are essential for comparing theoretical models of black hole accretion flows and jets with observational data. In this work, we introduce Coport, a novel public code specifically designed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-05 Jiewei Huang , Liheng Zheng , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

Numerical relativity is central to the investigation of astrophysical sources in the dynamical and strong-field gravity regime, such as binary black hole and neutron star coalescences. Current challenges set by gravitational-wave and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-04 Boris Daszuta , Francesco Zappa , William Cook , David Radice , Sebastiano Bernuzzi , Viktoriya Morozova

The FLARE code is a magnetic mesh generator that is integrated within a suite of tools for the analysis of the magnetic geometry in toroidal fusion devices. A magnetic mesh is constructed from field line segments and permits fast…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 H. Frerichs

We present a GPU-accelerated method for muon transport based on histogram sampling that delivers orders of magnitude faster performance than CPU-based Geant4 simulation. Our method employs precomputed histograms of momentum loss and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Luis Felipe P. Cattelan , Shah Rukh Qasim , Patrick H. Owen , Nicola Serra

The highly convergent iterative methods developed by Trujillo Bueno and Fabiani Bendicho (1995) for radiative transfer (RT) applications are generalized to spherical symmetry with velocity fields. These RT methods are based on Jacobi,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno , J. Cernicharo

While most robotics simulation libraries are built for low-dimensional and intrinsically serial tasks, soft-body and multi-agent robotics have created a demand for simulation environments that can model many interacting bodies in parallel.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Jacob Austin , Rafael Corrales-Fatou , Sofia Wyetzner , Hod Lipson

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for many routine clinical applications. In this paper, we present our…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xun Jia , Xuejun Gu , Yan Jiang Graves , Michael Folkerts , Steve B. Jiang

Radiation Treatment Planning (RTP) is the process of planning the appropriate external beam radiotherapy to combat cancer in human patients. RTP is a complex and compute-intensive task, which often takes a long time (several hours) to…

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