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Modern computer systems have become heterogeneous and consist of many emerging kinds of hardware accelerators as Dennard Scaling discontinues. Also, such domain-specific hardware accelerators fulfill the rapidly growing computing demands for applications including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Beyond conventional computer components such as central processing units (CPUs) and memory, modern computers typically […]

The classic style of writing and porting HPC applications to the GPU uses pointers to buffers or data-structures as kernel parameters. This style discards type information, leading to “flattening” of CPU-side data-structures before using them as kernel parameters, followed by a need to reconstruct them in GPU code to retain flexibility. In this thesis, we […]

The recent introduction of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of robotics by enabling contextual reasoning and intuitive human-robot interaction in domains as varied as manipulation, locomotion, and self-driving vehicles. When viewed as a stand-alone technology, LLMs are known to be vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, wherein malicious prompters elicit harmful text by bypassing […]

In this paper we develop the first fine-grained rounding error analysis of finite element (FE) cell kernels and assembly. The theory includes mixed-precision implementations and accounts for hardware-acceleration via matrix multiplication units, thus providing theoretical guidance for designing reduced- and mixed-precision FE algorithms on CPUs and GPUs. Guided by this analysis, we introduce hardware-accelerated mixed-precision […]

As cloud-based ML expands, ensuring data security during training and inference is critical. GPU-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) offer secure, high-performance solutions, with CPU TEEs managing data movement and GPU TEEs handling authentication and computation. However, CPU-to-GPU communication overheads significantly hinder performance, as data must be encrypted, authenticated, decrypted, and verified, increasing costs by 12.69 […]

As scientific codes are ported between GPU platforms, continuous testing is required to ensure numerical robustness and identify numerical differences. Compiler-induced numerical differences occur when a program is compiled and run on different GPUs, and the numerical outcomes are different for the same input. We present a study of compiler-induced numerical differences between NVIDIA and […]

Energy consumption has become a critical design metric and a limiting factor in the development of future computing architectures, from small wearable devices to large-scale leadership computing facilities. The predominant methods in energy management optimization are focused on CPUs. However, GPUs are increasingly significant and account for the majority of energy consumption in heterogeneous high […]

The rapid growth in machine learning models, especially in natural language processing and computer vision, has led to challenges when running these models on hardware with limited resources. This paper introduces Superpipeline, a new framework designed to optimize the execution of large AI models on constrained hardware during both training and inference. Our approach involves […]

In drug discovery, molecular docking aims at characterizing the binding of a drug-like molecule to a macromolecule. AutoDock-GPU, a state-of-the-art docking software, estimates the geometrical conformation of a docked ligand-protein complex by minimizing a scoring function. Our profiling results indicate that the current reduction operation that is heavily used in the scoring function is sub-optimal. […]

Deep Learning Automatic Hyperparameter Tuning plays a crucial role in advancing Artificial Intelligence applications, eliminating the need for complex expertise and costly manual operations. Ray Tune, developed by the University of California, Berkeley, has gained widespread adoption among notable companies like Amazon and Uber. In contrast to large enterprises, the hardware commonly used by the […]

In this thesis we show the benefits of the novel MLIR compiler technology to the generation of code from a DSL, namely EasyML used in openCARP, a widely used simulator in the cardiac electrophysiology community. Building on an existing work we deeply modified openCARP’s native code generator to enable efficient vectorized CPU and GPU code […]

This book presents a comprehensive exploration of GPGPU (General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit) and its applications in deep learning and machine learning. It focuses on how parallel computing, particularly through the use of CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), can unlock unprecedented computational power for complex tasks. The book provides detailed discussions on CPU and GPU […]