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Optimization plays a central role in modern radiation therapy, where it is used to determine optimal treatment machine parameters in order to deliver precise doses adapted to each patient case. In general, solving the optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Felix Liu , Albin Fredriksson , Stefano Markidis

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations have enjoyed considerable success because they are both flexible and robust: They allow arbitrary unstructured geometries and easy control of…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Andreas Klöckner , Timothy Warburton , Jan S. Hesthaven

Realistic reservoir simulation is known to be prohibitively expensive in terms of computation time when increasing the accuracy of the simulation or by enlarging the model grid size. One method to address this issue is to parallelize the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Tong Dong Qiu , Andreas Thune , Vinicius Oliveira Martins , Markus Blatt , Alf Birger Rustad , Razvan Nane

We describe an approximate dynamic programming approach to compute lower bounds on the optimal value function for a discrete time, continuous space, infinite horizon setting. The approach iteratively constructs a family of lower bounding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Paul N. Beuchat , Joseph Warrington , John Lygeros

We present a GPU implementation of LAMMPS, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics (MD) software package, and show 5x to 13x single node speedups versus the CPU-only version of LAMMPS. This new CUDA package for LAMMPS also enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-08 Christian R. Trott , Lars Winterfeld , Paul S. Crozier

Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Jizhou Liu , Fang Q. Hu , Xiaodong Li

We consider differential Lyapunov and Riccati equations, and generalized versions thereof. Such equations arise in many different areas and are especially important within the field of optimal control. In order to approximate their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Hermann Mena , Lena-Maria Pfurtscheller , Tony Stillfjord

We present a novel, practical, and provable approach for solving diagonally constrained semi-definite programming (SDP) problems at scale using accelerated non-convex programming. Our algorithm non-trivially combines acceleration motions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-07 Junhyung Lyle Kim , JA Lara Benitez , Mohammad Taha Toghani , Cameron Wolfe , Zhiwei Zhang , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Massively multicore processors, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), provide, at a comparable price, a one order of magnitude higher peak performance than traditional CPUs. This drop in the cost of computation, as any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Samer Al-Kiswany , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

The prediction of a dielectric breakdown in a high-voltage device is based on criteria that evaluate the electric field along field lines. Therefore it is necessary to efficiently compute the electric field at arbitrary points in space. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Cedric Münger , Steffen Börm , Jörg Ostrowski

Dynamic simulators are computational models governed by differential equations that evolve over time. They are essential for scientific and engineering applications but remain challenging to emulate because of the unpredictable behavior of…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-12 Junoh Heo

We propose a method of approximating multivariate Gaussian probabilities using dynamic programming. We show that solving the optimization problem associated with a class of discrete-time finite horizon Markov decision processes with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Morgan Jones , Matthew M. Peet

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated computational framework for reconstructing high resolution (HR) LF images under a mixed Gaussian-Impulse noise condition. The main focus is on developing a high-performance approach considering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Trung-Hieu Tran , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

A projection-based immersed boundary method is dominated by sparse linear algebra routines. Using the open-source Cusp library, we observe a speedup (with respect to a single CPU core) which reflects the constraints of a bandwidth-dominated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Simon K Layton , Anush Krishnan , Lorena A. Barba

The realized stochastic volatility (RSV) model that utilizes the realized volatility as additional information has been proposed to infer volatility of financial time series. We consider the Bayesian inference of the RSV model by the Hybrid…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-11-28 Tetsuya Takaishi

Several attempts to dampen the curse of dimensionnality problem of the Dynamic Programming approach for solving multistage optimization problems have been investigated. One popular way to address this issue is the Stochastic Dual Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Marianne Akian , Jean-Philippe Chancelier , Benoît Tran

We present an optimized algorithm calculating determinant for multivariate polynomial matrix on GPU. The novel algorithm provides precise determinant for input multivariate polynomial matrix in controllable time. Our approach is based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-26 Jianjun Wei , Liangyu Chen

The conservative Post-Newtonian (PN) Hamiltonian formulation of spinning compact binaries has six integrals of motion including the total energy, the total angular momentum and the constant unit lengths of spins. The manifold correction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Chong-xi Ran , Song Liu , Shuang-ying Zhong

Intra-day economic dispatch of an integrated microgrid is a fundamental requirement to integrate distributed generators. The dynamic energy flows in cogeneration units present challenges to the energy management of the microgrid. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Zhiyi Lin , Chunyue Song , Jun Zhao , Chao Yang , Huan Yin

Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is a fundamental matrix factorization technique in linear algebra, widely applied in numerous matrix-related problems. However, traditional SVD approaches are hindered by slow panel factorization and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shifang Liu , Huiyuan Li , Hongjiao Sheng , Haoyuan Gui , Xiaoyu Zhang