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In this work we present an efficient implementation of Canonical Monte Carlo simulation for Coulomb many body systems on graphics processing units (GPU). Our method takes advantage of the GPU Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 Yihao Liang , Xiangjun Xing , Yaohang Li

We present a novel parallel algorithm for cloth simulation that exploits multiple GPUs for fast computation and the handling of very high resolution meshes. To accelerate implicit integration, we describe new parallel algorithms for sparse…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Cheng Li , Min Tang , Ruofeng Tong , Ming Cai , Jieyi Zhao , Dinesh Manocha

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a well-established family of algorithms primarily used in Bayesian statistics to sample from a target distribution when direct sampling is challenging. Existing work on Bayesian decision trees uses MCMC.…

Computation · Statistics 2023-01-24 Efthyvoulos Drousiotis , Paul G. Spirakis , Simon Maskell

Advancements in AI have greatly enhanced the medical imaging process, making it quicker to diagnose patients. However, very few have investigated the optimization of a multi-model system with hardware acceleration. As specialized edge…

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Monte Carlo simulation is the most accurate method for absorbed dose calculations in radiotherapy. Its efficiency still requires improvement for routine clinical applications, especially for online adaptive radiotherapy. In this paper, we…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Xun Jia , Xuejun Gu , Josep Sempau , Dongju Choi , Amitava Majumdar , Steve B. Jiang

Computing systems interacting with real-world processes must safely and reliably process uncertain data. The Monte Carlo method is a popular approach for computing with such uncertain values. This article introduces a framework for…

The basic idea of fast Monte Carlo (MC) simulations is to perform particle-based MC simulations with the excluded-volume interactions modeled by "soft" repulsive potentials that allow particle overlapping. This gives much faster system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-01-24 Qiang Wang

Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are a widely used set of computational tools for inference in non-linear non-Gaussian state-space models. We propose a new SMC algorithm to compute the expectation of additive functionals recursively.…

Methodology · Statistics 2010-12-27 Pierre Del Moral , Arnaud Doucet , Sumeetpal Singh

Traditional inverse rendering techniques are based on textured meshes, which naturally adapts to modern graphics pipelines, but costly differentiable multi-bounce Monte Carlo (MC) ray tracing poses challenges for modeling global…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jiakai Sun , Weijing Zhang , Zhanjie Zhang , Tianyi Chu , Guangyuan Li , Lei Zhao , Wei Xing

We present Generative Monte Carlo (GMC), a novel paradigm for particle transport simulation that integrates generative artificial intelligence directly into the stochastic solution of the linear Boltzmann equation. By reformulating the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Joseph A. Farmer , Aidan Murray , Johannes Krotz , Ryan G. McClarren

Scientific computing has long relied on double precision (64-bit floating point) arithmetic to guarantee accuracy in simulations of real-world phenomena. However, the growing availability of hardware accelerators such as Graphics Processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Massimo Solinas , Agnes Valenti , Nawaf Bou-Rabee , Roeland Wiersema

This work discusses the implementation of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling from an arbitrary Gaussian mixture model (GMM) within SRAM. We show a novel architecture of SRAM by embedding it with random number generators (RNGs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-06 Priyesh Shukla , Ahish Shylendra , Theja Tulabandhula , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

Purpose: To enhance an in-house graphic-processing-unit (GPU) accelerated virtual particle (VP)-based Monte Carlo (MC) proton dose engine (VPMC) to model aperture blocks in both dose calculation and optimization for pencil beam scanning…

Collision Detection (CD) has several applications across the domains such as robotics, visual graphics, and fluid mechanics. Finding exact collisions between the objects in the scene is quite computationally intensive. To quickly filter the…

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Data management on GPUs has become increasingly relevant due to a tremendous rise in processing power and available GPU memory. Similar to main-memory systems, there is a need for performant GPU-resident index structures to speed up query…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Justus Henneberg , Felix Schuhknecht

We introduce a powerful Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for the atomistic simulation of bulk models of oligo- and poly-thiophenes by redesigning MC moves originally developed for considerably simpler polymer structures and architectures, such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Flora D. Tsourtou , Stavros D. Peroukidis , Loukas D. Peristeras , Vlasis G. Mavrantzas

We study the feature-scaled version of the Monte Carlo algorithm with linear function approximation. This algorithm converges to a scale-invariant solution, which is not unduly affected by states having feature vectors with large norms. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Rahul Madhavan , Hemanta Makwana

Modern parallel computing devices, such as the graphics processing unit (GPU), have gained significant traction in scientific and statistical computing. They are particularly well-suited to data-parallel algorithms such as the particle…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-12 Lawrence M. Murray , Anthony Lee , Pierre E. Jacob

Radiative transfer (RT) simulations are a powerful tool that enables the calculation of synthetic images of a wide range of astrophysical objects. These simulations are often based on the Monte Carlo (MC) method, as it provides the needed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Anton Krieger , Sebastian Wolf