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Molecular dynamics facilitates the simulation of a complex system to be analyzed at molecular and atomic levels. Simulations can last a long period of time, even months. Due to this cause the graphics processing units (GPUs) and multi-core…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Iuliana Marin , Nicolae Goga , Maria Goga

We present a scalable dissipative particle dynamics simulation code, fully implemented on the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) using a hybrid CUDA/MPI programming model, which achieves 10-30 times speedup on a single GPU over 16 CPU cores…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Yu-Hang Tang , George Em Karniadakis

The implicit 2D3V particle-in-cell (PIC) code developed to study the interaction of ultrashort pulse lasers with matter [G. M. Petrov and J. Davis, Computer Phys. Comm. 179, 868 (2008); Phys. Plasmas 18, 073102 (2011)] has been parallelized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 George M. Petrov , Jack Davis

For the self-consistent description of various plasma sources operated in the low-pressure (nonlocal, kinetic) regime, the Particle-In-Cell simulation approach, combined with the Monte Carlo treatment of collision processes (PIC/MCC), has…

We assess the performance of the hybrid Open Accelerator (OpenACC) and Message Passing Interface (MPI) approach for multi-graphics processing units (GPUs) accelerated thermal lattice Boltzmann (LB) simulation. The OpenACC accelerates…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-21 Ao Xu , Bo-Tao Li

Hybrid computational architectures based on the joint power of Central Processing Units and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular and powerful hardware tools for a wide range of simulations in biology, chemistry, engineering,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Mario Spera

With the appearance of the heterogeneous platform OpenPower,many-core accelerator devices have been coupled with Power host processors for the first time. Towards utilizing their full potential, it is worth investigating performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Erik Zenker , René Widera , Axel Huebl , Guido Juckeland , Andreas Knüpfer , Wolfgang E. Nagel , Michael Bussmann

We perform a scaling and performance portability study of the particle-in-cell scheme for plasma physics applications through a set of mini-apps we name "Alpine", which can make use of exascale computing capabilities. The mini-apps are…

The simplex algorithm has been successfully used for many years in solving linear programming (LP) problems. Due to the intensive computations required (especially for the solution of large LP problems), parallel approaches have also…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Basilis Mamalis , Marios Perlitis

A novel adaptive technique for electromagnetic Particle In Cell (PIC) plasma simulations is presented here. Two main issues are identified in designing adaptive techniques for PIC simulation: first, the choice of the size of the particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. E. Innocenti , G. Lapenta , S. Markidis , A. Beck , A. Vapirev

Recently, a fully implicit, energy- and charge-conserving particle-in-cell method has been proposed for multi-scale, full-f kinetic simulations [G. Chen, et al., J. Comput. Phys. 230,18 (2011)]. The method employs a Jacobian-free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Daniel C. Barnes

While FPGA accelerator boards and their respective high-level design tools are maturing, there is still a lack of multi-FPGA applications, libraries, and not least, benchmarks and reference implementations towards sustained HPC usage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Marius Meyer , Tobias Kenter , Christian Plessl

High-performance computing (HPC) is reshaping computational drug discovery by enabling large-scale, time-efficient molecular simulations. In this work, we explore HPC-driven pipelines for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery, focusing on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Paul Ruiz Alliata , Diana Rubaga , Daniel Kumlin , Alberto Puliga

Particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions (PIC/MCC) is a fully kinetic, particle based numerical simulation method with increasing popularity in the field of low temperature gas discharge physics. Already in its simplest form…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 Mate Vass , Peter Palla , Peter Hartmann

The advancement of artificial intelligence demands flexible multimodal data processing with high throughput and energy efficiency. Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) has demonstrated promising potentials in terms of low latency and low…

The scale and complexity of quantum system to which real-space quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) can be applied in part depends on the representation and memory usage of the trial wavefunction. B-splines, the computationally most efficient basis…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-05 Ye Luo , Kenneth P. Esler , Paul R. C. Kent , Luke Shulenburger

The variational quantum Monte Carlo (VQMC) method received significant attention in the recent past because of its ability to overcome the curse of dimensionality inherent in many-body quantum systems. Close parallels exist between VQMC and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Tianchen Zhao , Saibal De , Brian Chen , James Stokes , Shravan Veerapaneni

High Performance Computing (HPC) on hybrid clusters represents a significant opportunity for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), especially when modern accelerators are utilized effectively. However, despite the widespread adoption of GPUs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Simone Bnà , Giuseppe Giaquinto , Ettore Fadiga , Tommaso Zanelli , Francesco Bottau

Molecular dynamics (MD) is an important research tool extensively applied in materials science. Running MD on a graphics processing unit (GPU) is an attractive new approach for accelerating MD simulations. Currently, GPU implementations of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Qing Hou , Min Li , Yulu Zhou , Jiechao Cui , Zhenguo Cui , Jun Wang

The Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) method has proven to be an effective variance-reduction statistical method for Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in Partial Differential Equation (PDE) models, combining model computations at different levels…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Santiago Badia , Jerrad Hampton , Javier Principe