This course focuses on developing and optimizing applications software on massively parallel graphics processing units (GPUs). Such processing units routinely come with hundreds to thousands of cores ...

It is well known that traditional Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods can fail to effectively explore the state space for multimodal problems. Parallel tempering is a well-established population ...

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 24, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE 70TH BIRTHDAY OF PROFESSOR LIN QUN (MAY 2006), pp. 227-238 (12 pages) Based on two-grid discretizations, in this ...