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A three-dimensional Galactic extinction model
A large-scale three-dimensional model of Galactic extinction is presented
based on the Galactic dust distribution model of Drimmel and Spergel (2001).
The extinction A_V to any point within the Galactic disk can be quickly deduced
using a set of three-dimensional cartesian grids. Extinctions from the model
are compared to empirical extinction measures, including lines-of-sight in and
near the Galactic plane using optical and NIR extinction measures; in
particular we show how extinction can be derived from NIR color-magnitude
diagrams in the Galactic plane to a distance of 8 kiloparsec.Comment: 12 pages, to be published in A&
Near-IR 2D-Spectroscopy of the 4''x 4'' region around the Active Galactic Nucleus of NGC1068 with ISAAC/VLT
We present new near-IR long slit spectroscopic data obtained with ISAAC on
VLT/ANTU (ESO/Paranal) of the central 4''x 4'' region surrounding the central
engine of NGC1068 . Bracket Gamma (Bg) and H2 emission line maps and line
profile grids are produced, at a spatial resolution~0.5" and spectral
resolution 35km/s. Two conspicuous knots of H2 emission are detected at about
1'' on each side of the central engine along PA=90deg, with a projected
velocity difference of 140km/s: this velocity jump has been interpreted in
Alloin et al (2001) as the signature of a rotating disk of molecular material.
Another knot with both H2 and Bg emission is detected to the North of the
central engine, close to the radio source C where the small scale radio jet is
redirected and close to the brightest [OIII] cloud NLR-B. At the achieved
spectral resolution, the H2 emission line profiles appear highly asymmetric
with their low velocity wing being systematically more extended than their high
velocity wing. A simple way to account for the changes of the H2 line profiles
(peak-shift with respect to the systemic velocity, width, asymmetry) over the
entire 4''x 4'' region, is to consider that a radial outflow is superimposed
over the emission of the rotating molecular disk. We present a model of such a
kinematical configuration and compare our predicted H2 emission profiles to the
observed ones.Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&
A Unified Optimization Approach for Sparse Tensor Operations on GPUs
Sparse tensors appear in many large-scale applications with multidimensional
and sparse data. While multidimensional sparse data often need to be processed
on manycore processors, attempts to develop highly-optimized GPU-based
implementations of sparse tensor operations are rare. The irregular computation
patterns and sparsity structures as well as the large memory footprints of
sparse tensor operations make such implementations challenging. We leverage the
fact that sparse tensor operations share similar computation patterns to
propose a unified tensor representation called F-COO. Combined with
GPU-specific optimizations, F-COO provides highly-optimized implementations of
sparse tensor computations on GPUs. The performance of the proposed unified
approach is demonstrated for tensor-based kernels such as the Sparse Matricized
Tensor- Times-Khatri-Rao Product (SpMTTKRP) and the Sparse Tensor- Times-Matrix
Multiply (SpTTM) and is used in tensor decomposition algorithms. Compared to
state-of-the-art work we improve the performance of SpTTM and SpMTTKRP up to
3.7 and 30.6 times respectively on NVIDIA Titan-X GPUs. We implement a
CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) decomposition and achieve up to 14.9 times speedup using
the unified method over state-of-the-art libraries on NVIDIA Titan-X GPUs
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