Dynamic thermal management (DTM) has been widely adopted to improve the energy efficiency, reliability, and performance of modern Multi-Processor SoCs (MPSoCs). However, the evolving industry trends and heterogeneous architecture designs have introduced ...

Strong scaling of long-range electrostatic force computation, which is a central concern of long timescale molecular dynamics simulations, is challenging for CPUs and GPUs due to its complex communication structure and global communication requirements. ...

The rapid mutation of viruses, such as SARS-CoV-2, highlights the urgent need for fast and precise genomic sequencing. The traditional sequencing technique maps the DNA fragments collected from an individual to a known linear reference genome sequence. ...

Molecular dynamics (MD) is one of the most crucial computer simulation methods for understanding real-world processes at the atomic level. Reactive potentials based on the bond order concept have the ability to model dynamic bond breaking and formation ...

The first-principles approach based on density-functional theory (DFT)/density-functional perturbation theory (DFPT) is widely used in calculations of the systems’ ground state energy, response properties (e.g., polarizability, phonon dispersions) ...

Molecular docking is the process of posing, scoring, and ranking small molecules at the binding sites of proteins to prioritize compounds for experimental testing. It is a widely-used computational method in the drug discovery process. However, it is a ...

International high-energy particle physics research centers, like CERN and Fermilab, require excessive studies and simulations to plan for the upcoming upgrades of the world's largest particle accelerators, and the design of future machines given ...

A Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is a hardware and/or software device aiming to ease those operations required for music production, such as arranging, recording, editing, mixing, and, more in general, modifying sounds creatively. A peculiarity of a DAW ...

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In mobile crowdsensing, many mobile devices are collectively used to complete complex sensing tasks. Most tasks require users to consume resources to ensure continuous performance over multiple periods of time. Therefore, it is important to incentivize ...

Nowadays we witness a miniaturisation trend in the semiconductor industry backed up by groundbreaking discoveries and designs in nanoscale characterisation and fabrication. To facilitate the trend and produce ever smaller, faster and cheaper computing ...

To solve an optimization problem using a commercial quantum annealer, one has to represent the problem of interest as an Ising or a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problem and submit its coefficients to the annealer, which then returns ...

<italic>De novo</italic> genome assembly is a fundamental problem in the field of bioinformatics, that aims to assemble the DNA sequence of an unknown genome from numerous short DNA fragments (aka reads) obtained from it. With the advent of high-...

With the increase of the number of electric vehicles (EVs), it is of vital importance to develop the efficient and effective charging scheduling schemes for all the EVs. In this article, we aim to maximize the social welfare of all the EVs, charging ...

This article provides a comprehensive study of the impact of performance optimizations on the energy efficiency of a real-world CFD application called MPDATA, as well as an insightful analysis of performance-energy interaction of these optimizations with ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) services such as mobile P2P transmissions and resource sharing, provide efficient methods to deliver data without the deployment of any central server. Nevertheless, the <italic>free-riding</italic> phenomenon inherit in such services ...

The study of atmospheric chemistry-climate interactions is one of today's great computational challenges. Advances in the architecture of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in both raw computational power and memory bandwidth sparked the interest for ...

Graphics processing units (GPUs) have become extremely important devices for accelerating computing performance in many applications. However, there have been few accurate models to estimate the performance of such applications running on modern GPUs. In ...

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) detection is a fundamental procedure of whole genome analysis. SOAPsnp, a classic tool for detection, would take more than one week to analyze one typical human genome, which limits the efficiency of downstream ...