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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

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

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now powerful and flexible systems adapted and used for other purposes than graphics calculations (General Purpose computation on GPU -- GPGPU). We present here a prototype to be integrated into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-06-13 Sylvain Collange , Marc Daumas , David Defour

Purpose: Monte Carlo methods are considered the gold standard for dosimetric computations in radiotherapy. Their execution time is however still an obstacle to the routine use of Monte Carlo packages in a clinical setting. To address this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Sami Hissoiny , Hugo Bouchard , Benoît Ozell , Philippe Després

We describe a Monte Carlo radiative transport code intended for calculating spectra of hot, optically thin plasmas in full general relativity. The version we describe here is designed to model hot accretion flows in the Kerr metric and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Joshua C. Dolence , Charles F. Gammie , Monika Moscibrodzka , Po Kin Leung

We present a GPU-accelerated cosmological simulation code, PhotoNs-GPU, based on algorithm of Particle Mesh Fast Multipole Method (PM-FMM), and focus on the GPU utilization and optimization. A proper interpolated method for truncated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 Qiao Wang , Chen Meng

We present Horizon, a new graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated code to solve the equations of general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics in a given spacetime. We evaluate the code in several test cases, including magnetized Riemann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-28 Burkhard Zink

We outline how auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC) can leverage graphical processing units (GPUs) to accelerate the simulation of solid state sytems. By exploiting conservation of crystal momentum in the one- and two-electron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Fionn D. Malone , Shuai Zhang , Miguel A. Morales

We created an efficient algorithm suitable for graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform Monte Carlo simulations of a subset of reaction-diffusion models. The algorithm uses techniques that are specific to GPU programming, and combines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-03-06 R. D. Schram

We implemented a fast Reciprocal Monte Carlo algorithm, to accurately solve radiative heat transfer in turbulent flows of non-grey participating media that can be coupled to fully resolved turbulent flows, namely to Direct Numerical…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Simone Silvestri , Rene Pecnik

Monte Carlo (MC) neutron transport provides detailed estimates of radiological quantities within fission reactors. This involves tracking individual neutrons through a computational geometry. CPU-based MC codes use multiple polymorphic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Elliott Biondo , Thomas Evans , Seth Johnson , Steven Hamilton

Finding a software engineering approach that allows for portability, rapid development, and open collaboration for high-performance computing on GPUs and CPUs is a challenge. We implement a portability scheme using the Numba compiler for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Joanna Piper Morgan , Ilham Variansyah , Braxton Cuneo , Todd S. Palmer , Kyle E. Niemeyer

In this paper we describe and demonstrate a C++ code written to determine the trajectory of particles traversing oriented single crystals and a CUDA code written to evaluate the radiation spectra from charged particles with arbitrary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-24 Christian Flohr Nielsen

Low-luminosity active galactic nuclei are strong sources of X-ray emission produced by Compton scattering originating from the accretion flows surrounding their supermassive black holes. The shape and energy of the resulting spectrum depend…

We present a scheme for the parallelization of quantum Monte Carlo on graphical processing units, focusing on bosonic systems and variational Monte Carlo. We use asynchronous execution schemes with shared memory persistence, and obtain an…

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Emission and absorption line features are important diagnostics for the physics underlying extragalactic astronomy. The interpretation of observed signatures involves comparing against forward modeled spectra from galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play a pivotal role in diverse scientific and engineering domains, with applications ranging from nuclear physics to materials science. Harnessing the computational power of high-performance computing (HPC)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yehonatan Fridman , Guy Tamir , Uri Steinitz , Gal Oren

Significance: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are the gold-standard for modeling light-tissue interactions due to their accuracy. Mesh-based MC (MMC) offers enhanced precision for complex tissue structures using tetrahedral mesh models. Despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shijie Yan , Douglas Dwyer , David R. Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

The Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport is developing Monte Carlo / Dynamic Code (MC/DC) as a portable Monte Carlo neutron transport package for rapid numerical methods exploration on CPU- and GPU-based high-performance…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Joanna Piper Morgan , Braxton Cuneo , Ilham Variansyah , Kyle E. Niemeyer

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
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