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CPU-based many-core processors present an alternative to multicore CPU and GPU processors. In particular, the 93-Petaflops Sunway supercomputer, built from clustered many-core processors, has opened a new era for high performance computing that does not rely on GPU acceleration. However, memory bandwidth remains the main challenge for these architectures. This motivates our endeavor for optimizing […]

The objective of the Programming with OpenMP4 for Exascale Investigations (POMPEI) project is to explore new task-based programming techniques together with data structure centric programming for scientific applications to harness the potential of extreme-scale systems. Tasking is a well established by now approach on such systems as it has been used successfully to handle their […]

GPUs and other accelerators are popular devices for accelerating compute-intensive, parallelizable applications. However, programming these devices is a difficult task. Writing efficient device code is challenging, and is typically done in a low-level programming language. High-level languages are rarely supported, or do not integrate with the rest of the high-level language ecosystem. To overcome this, […]

GPUs in High-Performance Computing systems remain under-utilised due to the unavailability of schedulers that can safely schedule multiple applications to share the same GPU. The research reported in this paper is motivated to improve the utilisation of GPUs by proposing a framework, we refer to as schedGPU, to facilitate intra-node GPU co-scheduling such that a […]

In recent years, as the demand for low energy and high performance computing has steadily increased, heterogeneous computing has emerged as an important and promising solution. Because most workloads can typically run most efficiently on certain types of cores, mapping tasks on the best available resources can not only save energy but also deliver high […]

Flash memory based SSDs offer several attractive features and benefits compared to hard disk drive (HDD), such as shock resistance, better performance especially for random data access, etc. Depending on the number of bits in each cell, Flash memory can be designed as single/multi/triple level cell (SLC/MLC/TLC) which have different performance, density, cost and write […]

Cellular Automata (CA) have its origins in the work of Von Neumann and, since then, have become an important research topic with a wide range of applications, ranging from DNA sequencing to ecological dynamics. One aspect that may be of interest during a CA simulation is the evolution in the number of individuals of each […]

Wide adoption of parallel processing hardware in mainstream computing as well as the interest for efficient parallel programming in developer communities increase the demand for programming models that offer support for common algorithmic patterns. An algorithmic pattern of particular interest are reductions. Reductions are iterative memory updates of a program variable and appear in many […]

The use of low-precision arithmetic in mixed-precision computing methods has been a powerful tool to accelerate numerous scientific computing applications. Artificial intelligence (AI) in particular has pushed this to current extremes, making use of half-precision floating-point arithmetic (FP16) in approaches based on neural networks. The appeal of FP16 is in the high performance that can […]

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have shown to be powerful classification tools in tasks that range from check reading to medical diagnosis, reaching close to human perception, and in some cases surpassing it. However, the problems to solve are becoming larger and more complex, which translates to larger CNNs, leading to longer training times that not […]

High Level Synthesis (HLS) is a new method for developing applications for use on FPGAs. Instead of the classic approach using a Hardware Descriptive Language (HDL), a high level programming language can be used. HLS has many perks, including high level debugging and simulation of the system being developed. This shortens the development time which […]

We investigate implementation of lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) code on the Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing (KNL). The most time consuming part of the numerical simulations of lattice QCD is a solver of linear equation for a large sparse matrix that represents the strong interaction among quarks. To establish widely applicable prescriptions, we examine rather […]