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We investigate the energy efficiency of a library designed for parallel computations with sparse matrices. The library leverages high-performance, energy-efficient Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerators to enable large-scale scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Massimo Bernaschi , Alessandro Celestini , Pasqua D'Ambra , Giorgio Richelli

A kernel-independent treecode (KITC) is presented for fast summation of particle interactions. The method employs barycentric Lagrange interpolation at Chebyshev points to approximate well-separated particle-cluster interactions. The KITC…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Lei Wang , Robert Krasny , Svetlana Tlupova

Split-execution computing leverages the capabilities of multiple computational models to solve problems, but splitting program execution across different computational models incurs costs associated with the translation between domains. We…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Travis S. Humble , Alexander J. McCaskey , Jonathan Schrock , Hadayat Seddiqi , Keith A. Britt , Neena Imam

The rapid scaling of Large Language Models (LLMs) has pushed training workloads far beyond the limits of single-node analysis, demanding a deeper understanding of how these models behave across large-scale, multi-GPU systems. In this paper,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Seokjin Go , Joongun Park , Spandan More , Hanjiang Wu , Irene Wang , Aaron Jezghani , Tushar Krishna , Divya Mahajan

GPU-based HPC clusters are attracting more scientific application developers due to their extensive parallelism and energy efficiency. In order to achieve portability among a variety of multi/many core architectures, a popular choice for an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ali TehraniJamsaz , Alok Mishra , Akash Dutta , Abid M. Malik , Barbara Chapman , Ali Jannesari

Scheduling query execution plans is a particularly complex problem in shared-nothing parallel systems, where each site consists of a collection of local time-shared (e.g., CPU(s) or disk(s)) and space-shared (e.g., memory) resources and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Minos Garofalakis , Yannis Ioannidis

We present a new implementation of the numerical integration of the classical, gravitational, N-body problem based on a high order Hermite's integration scheme with block time steps, with a direct evaluation of the particle-particle forces.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Capuzzo-Dolcetta , M. Spera , D. Punzo

This paper focuses on the parallel implementation of a direct $N$-body method~(particle-particle algorithm) and the application of multiple GPUs for galactic dynamics simulations. Application of a hybrid OpenMP-CUDA technology is considered…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 S. S. Khrapov , S. A. Khoperskov , A. V. Khoperskov

We describe an efficient Particle-Mesh algorithm for the Connection Machine CM-5. Our particular method parallelizes well and the computation time per time step decreases as the particles become more clustered. We achieve floating-point…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 Robert Ferrell , Edmund Bertschinger

Machine learning algorithms have enabled computers to predict things by learning from previous data. The data storage and processing power are increasing rapidly, thus increasing machine learning and Artificial intelligence applications.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Muhammad Fahad Saleem

Large-scale GPU traces play a critical role in identifying performance bottlenecks within heterogeneous High-Performance Computing (HPC) architectures. However, the sheer volume and complexity of a single trace of data make performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Ankur Lahiry , Ayush Pokharel , Banooqa Banday , Seth Ockerman , Amal Gueroudji , Mohammad Zaeed , Tanzima Z. Islam , Line Pouchard

We describe a modified version of the NBODY6 code for simulating star clusters which greatly improves computational efficiency while sacrificing little in the way of accuracy. The distant force calculator is replaced by a GPU-enabled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-22 Anthony D. Arnold , Holger Baumgardt , Long Wang

While previous work on energy-efficient algorithms focused on assumption that tasks can be assigned to any processor, we initially study the problem of task scheduling on restricted parallel processors. The objective is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Xibo Jin , Fa Zhang , Ying Song , Liya Fan , Zhiyong Liu

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

Cosmological large scale structure $N$-body simulations are computation-light, memory-heavy problems in supercomputing. The considerable amount of memory is usually dominated by an inefficient way of storing more than sufficient phase space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Hao-Ran Yu , Ue-Li Pen , Xin Wang

We present Shamrock, a performance portable framework developed in C++17 with the SYCL programming standard, tailored for numerical astrophysics on Exascale architectures. The core of Shamrock is an accelerated parallel tree with negligible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-14 Timothée David--Cléris , Guillaume Laibe , Yona Lapeyre

Comprehending the performance bottlenecks at the core of the intricate hardware-software interactions exhibited by highly parallel programs on HPC clusters is crucial. This paper sheds light on the issue of automatically asynchronous MPI…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ayesha Afzal , Georg Hager , Stefano Markidis , Gerhard Wellein

This paper focuses on reducing memory usage in enumerative model checking, while maintaining the multi-core scalability obtained in earlier work. We present a tree-based multi-core compression method, which works by leveraging sharing among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Alfons Laarman , Jaco van de Pol , Michael Weber

We present Task Bench, a parameterized benchmark designed to explore the performance of parallel and distributed programming systems under a variety of application scenarios. Task Bench lowers the barrier to benchmarking multiple…

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a widely used approach for policy improvement through search with increasing popularity for real world applications. Due to the sequential and deterministic nature of its search, runtime-scaling of MCTS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yaniv Oren , Viliam Vadocz , Joery A. de Vries , Wendelin Böhmer , Matthijs T. J. Spaan , Hendrik Baier