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 ...
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 116, No. 815 (January 2004), pp. 65-76 (12 pages) ABSTRACT Adaptive optics image data acquired on large telescopes nearly always need ...