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Micro-macro models provide a powerful tool to study the relationship between microscale mechanisms and emergent macroscopic behavior. However, the detailed microscopic modeling may require tracking and evolving a high-dimensional…

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Future experiments in high-energy physics will pose stringent requirements to computing, in particular to real-time data processing. As an example, the CBM experiment at FAIR Germany intends to perform online data selection exclusively in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 V. Singhal , S. Chattopadhyay , V. Friese

We present an efficient open-source implementation of the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) algorithm that scales to run on hundreds of graphics processing units (GPUs). We especially focus on optimizations for modern GPU…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-01 Michael P. Howard , Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos , Arash Nikoubashman

Scientific computing in the exascale era demands increased computational power to solve complex problems across various domains. With the rise of heterogeneous computing architectures the need for vendor-agnostic, performance portability…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Johansell Villalobos , Josef Ruzicka , Silvio Rizzi

Path integral Monte Carlo (PIMC) and path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) provide the golden standard for the ab initio simulations of identical particles. In this work, we achieved significant GPU acceleration based on PIMD, which is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yunuo Xiong

We discuss the computational bottlenecks in molecular dynamics (MD) and describe the challenges in parallelizing the computation intensive tasks. We present a hybrid algorithm using MPI (Message Passing Interface) with OpenMP threads for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Anirban Pal , Abhishek Agarwala , Soumyendu Raha , Baidurya Bhattacharya

We compare different Poisson solvers within the context of an electrostatic Vlasov-Poisson system. These schemes are implemented as part of the IPPL (Independent Parallel Particle Layer) library (Frey et al., 2024), which provides…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sonali Mayani , Paul Fischill , Sriramkrishnan Muralikrishnan , Andreas Adelmann

Large-scale simulations of plasmas are essential for advancing our understanding of fusion devices, space, and astrophysical systems. Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes have demonstrated their success in simulating numerous plasma phenomena on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Steven W. D. Chien , Jonas Nylund , Gabriel Bengtsson , Ivy B. Peng , Artur Podobas , Stefano Markidis

With multi-core processors a ubiquitous building block of modern supercomputers, it is now past time to enable applications to embrace these developments in processor design. To achieve exascale performance, applications will need ways of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-13 Michele Weiland , Lawrence Mitchell , Gerard Gorman , Stephan Kramer , Mark Parsons , James Southern

The rapid advancement of deep learning is reshaping the hardware design landscape toward AI tasks, posing fundamental challenges for HPC workloads such as atomistic simulation. Here we present SMC-AI, a general algorithmic framework that…

The paper demonstrates the optimization of the execution environment of a hybrid OpenMP+MPI computational fluid dynamics code (shallow water equation solver) on a cluster enabled with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The discussion includes:…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-08-11 Andrey Vladimirov , Cliff Addison

The computational cost of traditional first-principles method quickly becomes prohibitively expensive as the number of atoms increases. This challenge is further amplified by the need to evaluate finite-temperature properties with Monte…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-13 Xianglin Liu , Kai Yang , Yongxiang Liu , Fanli Zhou , Dengdong Fan , Zongrui Pei , Pengxiang Xu , Yonghong Tian

Scalable and efficient numerical simulations continue to gain importance, as computation is firmly established as the third pillar of discovery, alongside theory and experiment. Meanwhile, the performance of computing hardware grows through…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Pietro Incardona , Antonio Leo , Yaroslav Zaluzhnyi , Rajesh Ramaswamy , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

Matrix multiplication is a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, yet its computational complexity makes it a significant bottleneck for large-scale applications. The shift to parallel architectures, primarily…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Mufakir Qamar Ansari , Mudabir Qamar Ansari

We show that efficient simulations of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang interface growth in 2 + 1 dimensions and of the 3-dimensional Kinetic Monte Carlo of thermally activated diffusion can be realized both on GPUs and modern CPUs. In this article…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Jeffrey Kelling , Géza Ódor , Máté Ferenc Nagy , Henrik Schulz , Karl-Heinz Heinig

We implement and benchmark parallel I/O methods for the fully-manycore driven particle-in-cell code PIConGPU. Identifying throughput and overall I/O size as a major challenge for applications on today's and future HPC systems, we present a…

Physical scenarios where the electromagnetic fields are so strong that Quantum ElectroDynamics (QED) plays a substantial role are one of the frontiers of contemporary plasma physics research. Investigating those scenarios requires…

Our fully kinetic, implicit Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations of global magnetospheres on up to 32,768 of El Capitan's AMD Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) represent an unprecedented computational capability that…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Stefano Markidis , Andong Hu , Ivy Peng , Luca Pennati , Ian Lumsden , Dewi Yokelson , Stephanie Brink , Olga Pearce , Thomas R. W. Scogland , Bronis R. de Supinski , Gian Luca Delzanno , Michela Taufer

Monte Carlo / Dynamic Code (MC/DC) is a portable Monte Carlo neutron transport package for rapid numerical methods exploration in heterogeneous and HPC contexts, developed under the auspices of the Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Braxton Cuneo , Joanna Piper Morgan , Ilham Variansyah , Kyle E. Niemeyer

The Particle-In-Cell (PIC) and Monte Carlo Collisions (MCC) methods are workhorses of many numerical simulations of physical systems. Recently, it was pointed out that, while the two methods can be exactly - or nearly - energy-conserving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jean-Luc Vay , Justin Ray Angus , Olga Shapoval , Remi Lehe , David Grote , Axel Huebl