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A leading-order, leading-color parton-level event generator is developed for use on a multi-threaded GPU. Speed-up factors between 150 and 300 are obtained compared to an unoptimized CPU-based implementation of the event generator. In this…
CPU-FPGA heterogeneous architectures are attracting ever-increasing attention in an attempt to advance computational capabilities and energy efficiency in today's datacenters. These architectures provide programmers with the ability to…
In this proceedings we demonstrate some advantages of a top-bottom approach in the development of hardware-accelerated code. We start with an autogenerated hardware-agnostic Monte Carlo generator, which is parallelized in the event axis.…
Extensions to the C++ implementation of the QCD Data Parallel Interface are provided enabling acceleration of expression evaluation on NVIDIA GPUs. Single expressions are off-loaded to the device memory and execution domain leveraging the…
We present an FPGA-based study of matrix-element acceleration for Monte Carlo event generation, using MadGraph5_aMC@NLO as a benchmark framework. Two complementary scenarios are considered. First, we implement the full matrix-element…
We present the first fully automated implementation of cross-section computation and event generation for loop-induced processes. This work is integrated in the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework. We describe the optimisations implemented at the…
This paper presents a mixed-signal neuromorphic accelerator architecture designed for accelerating inference with event-based neural network models. This fully CMOS-compatible accelerator utilizes analog computing to emulate synapse and…
The modern trend in High-Performance Computing (HPC) involves the use of accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) alongside Central Processing Units (CPUs) to speed up numerical operations in various applications. Leading…
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,…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently gained attention due to their performance on non-Euclidean data. The use of custom hardware architectures proves particularly beneficial for GNNs due to their irregular memory access patterns,…
Oscillation probability calculations are becoming increasingly CPU intensive in modern neutrino oscillation analyses. The independency of reweighting individual events in a Monte Carlo sample lends itself to parallel implementation on a…
Recent developments have demonstrated the potential for high simulation speeds and reduced energy consumption by porting Monte Carlo Event Generators to GPUs. We release version 2 of the CUDA C++ parton shower event generator GAPS, which…
This paper presents a methodology for using LLVM-based tools to tune the DCA++ (dynamical clusterapproximation) application that targets the new ARM A64FX processor. The goal is to describethe changes required for the new architecture and…
With high computation power and memory bandwidth, graphics processing units (GPUs) lend themselves to accelerate data-intensive analytics, especially when such applications fit the single instruction multiple data (SIMD) model. However,…
Heterogeneous systems are becoming more common on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. Even using tools like CUDA and OpenCL it is a non-trivial task to obtain optimal performance on the GPU. Approaches to simplifying this task include…
The longitudinal tracking engine of the particle accelerator simulation application PyHEADTAIL shows a heavy potential for parallelisation. For basic beam circulation, the tracking functionality with the leap-frog algorithm is extracted and…
In this proceedings we present MadFlow, a new framework for the automation of Monte Carlo (MC) simulation on graphics processing units (GPU) for particle physics processes. In order to automate MC simulation for a generic number of…
In this paper, we develop a new parallel auxiliary grid algebraic multigrid (AMG) method to leverage the power of graphic processing units (GPUs). In the construction of the hierarchical coarse grid, we use a simple and fixed coarsening…
The library PRAND for pseudorandom number generation for modern CPUs and GPUs is presented. It contains both single-threaded and multi-threaded realizations of a number of modern and most reliable generators recently proposed and studied in…
MadGraph5_aMC@NLO is a software package that allows one to simulate processes of arbitrary complexity, at both the leading and the next-to-leading order perturbative accuracy, with or without matching and multi-jet merging to parton…