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It is common practice to use large computational resources to train neural networks, as is known from many examples, such as reinforcement learning applications. However, while massively parallel computing is often used for training models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xiufeng Yang , Tanuj Kr Aasawat , Kazuki Yoshizoe

We compare the performance of two very different parallel gravitational $N$-body codes for astrophysical simulations on large GPU clusters, both pioneer in their own fields as well as in certain mutual scales - NBODY6++ and Bonsai. We carry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Siyi Huang , Rainer Spurzem , Peter Berczik

Fast algorithms for the computation of $N$-body problems can be broadly classified into mesh-based interpolation methods, and hierarchical or multiresolution methods. To this last class belongs the well-known fast multipole method (FMM),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , Matthew G. Knepley , L. A. Barba

Today, very large amounts of data are produced and stored in all branches of society including science. Mining these data meaningfully has become a considerable challenge and is of the broadest possible interest. The size, both in numbers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Andreas Vitalis

We develop a method for improving the parallel scalability of the recently developed parallel selected inversion algorithm [Jacquelin, Lin and Yang 2014], named PSelInv, on massively parallel distributed memory machines. In the PSelInv…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Mathias Jacquelin , Lin Lin , Nathan Wichmann , Chao Yang

We present Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (PPPM) and Tree Particle-Mesh (TreePM) implementations on GRAPE-5 and GRAPE-6A systems, special-purpose hardware accelerators for gravitational many-body simulations. In our PPPM and TreePM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Yoshikawa , Toshiyuki Fukushige

This article introduces a highly parallel algorithm for molecular dynamics simulations with short-range forces on single node multi- and many-core systems. The algorithm is designed to achieve high parallel speedups for strongly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 R. Meyer

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P3M) simulation code for the Cray T3E parallel supercomputer that is well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tom MacFarland , H. M. P. Couchman , F. R. Pearce , Jakob Pichlmeier

The Simplex tableau has been broadly used and investigated in the industry and academia. With the advent of the big data era, ever larger problems are posed to be solved in ever larger machines whose architecture type did not exist in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Demetrios Coutinho , Felipe O. Lins e Silva , Daniel Aloise , Samuel , Xavier-de-Souza

Tree-based models have proven to be an effective solution for web ranking as well as other problems in diverse domains. This paper focuses on optimizing the runtime performance of applying such models to make predictions, given an…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Nima Asadi , Jimmy Lin , Arjen P. de Vries

Neighborhood algorithms may take a considerable percentage of computer time in discrete element methods (DEM). While the sort-and-sweep algorithm is ideal in some ways, as it only deal with particles whose relative positions change in one…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Dominik Krengel , Yuki Watanabe , Ko Kandori , Jian Chen , Hans-Georg Matuttis

Furthering our understanding of many of today's interesting problems in plasma physics---including plasma based acceleration and magnetic reconnection with pair production due to quantum electrodynamic effects---requires large-scale kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kyle G. Miller , Roman P. Lee , Adam Tableman , Anton Helm , Ricardo A. Fonseca , Viktor K. Decyk , Warren B. Mori

Power efficiency has recently become a major concern in the high-performance computing domain. HPC centers are provisioned by a power bound which impacts execution time. Naturally, a tradeoff arises between power efficiency and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Ramy Medhat , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastian Fischmeister

Nested parallelism exists in scientific codes that are searching multi-dimensional spaces. However, implementations of nested parallelism often have overhead and load balance issues. The Orbital Analysis code we present exhibits a sparse…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Benjamin James Gaska , Neha Jothi , Mahdi Soltan Mohammadi , Kat Volk , Michelle Mills Strout

High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters are made up of a variety of node types (usually compute, I/O, service, and GPGPU nodes) and applications don't use nodes of a different type the same way. Resulting communication patterns reflect…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-23 John Gliksberg , Jean-Noel Quintin , Pedro Javier Garcia

The auto-regressive decoding of Large Language Models (LLMs) results in significant overheads in their hardware performance. While recent research has investigated various speculative decoding techniques for multi-token generation, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hao Mark Chen , Wayne Luk , Ka Fai Cedric Yiu , Rui Li , Konstantin Mishchenko , Stylianos I. Venieris , Hongxiang Fan

The aim of the paper is to introduce general techniques in order to optimize the parallel execution time of sorting on a distributed architectures with processors of various speeds. Such an application requires a partitioning step. For…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christophe Cérin , Jean-Christophe Dubacq , Jean-Louis Roch , the SafeScale Collaboration

Homotopy methods to solve polynomial systems are well suited for parallel computing because the solution paths defined by the homotopy can be tracked independently. Both the static and dynamic load balancing models are implemented in C with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jan Verschelde , Yusong Wang

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

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