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JCC
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
An optimized initialization algorithm to ensure accuracy in quantum Monte Carlo calculations
: Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations require the generation of random electronic configurations with respect to a desired probability density, usually the square of the magnitu...
Daniel R. Fisher, David R. Kent IV, Michael T. Fel...
CLUSTER
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Load Balance for Optimized Message Logging in Fault Tolerant HPC Applications
—Computing systems will grow significantly larger in the near future to satisfy the needs of computational scientists in areas like climate modeling, biophysics and cosmology. S...
Esteban Meneses, Laxmikant V. Kalé, Greg Br...
CLUSTER
2011
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Performance Characterization and Optimization of Atomic Operations on AMD GPUs
—Atomic operations are important building blocks in supporting general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs). For instance, they can be used to coordinate executi...
Marwa Elteir, Heshan Lin, Wu-chun Feng
ICRA
2009
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
Effects of compliant ankles on bipedal locomotion
— The influence of ankle compliance on bipedal robot locomotion is investigated in this paper. The focus is on reduction of energy consumption. The concept of hybrid zero dynami...
Thomas Schauss, Michael Scheint, Marion Sobotka, W...
PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive input-aware compilation for graphics engines
While graphics processing units (GPUs) provide low-cost and efficient platforms for accelerating high performance computations, the tedious process of performance tuning required...
Mehrzad Samadi, Amir Hormati, Mojtaba Mehrara, Jan...