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General purpose computation using Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) is a well-established research area focusing on high-performance computing solutions for massively parallelizable and time-consuming problems. Classical methodologies in machine learning and data mining cannot handle processing of massive and high-speed volumes of information in the context of the big data era. GPUs have successfully improved the […]

Given their massively parallel computing capabilities heterogeneous architectures comprised of CPUs and accelerators have been increasingly used to speed-up scientific and engineering applications. Nevertheless, programming such architectures is a challenging task for most non-expert programmers as typical accelerator programming languages (e.g. CUDA and OpenCL) demand a thoroughly understanding of the underlying hardware to enable an […]

The Exact Set Similarity Join problem aims to find all similar sets between two collections of sets, with respect to a threshold and a similarity function such as overlap, Jaccard, dice or cosine. The naive approach verifies all pairs of sets and it is often considered impractical due the high number of combinations. So, Exact […]

The effective use of parallelized hardware is an important goal of today’s computer developments. Nvidia GPUs are an important footing in this context. While CUDA implemented algorithms focus on detailed optimized usage of GPU elements the pragma directive parallelization targets GPU computation for a broader community. In this paper we focus on the implementation of […]

Deep learning and complex machine learning has quickly become one of the most important computationally intensive applications for a wide variety of fields. The combination of large data sets, high-performance computational capabilities, and evolving and improving algorithms has enabled many successful applications which were previously difficult or impossible to consider. This paper explores the challenges […]

Hydra is a header-only, templated and C++11-compliant framework designed to perform the typical bottleneck calculations found in common HEP data analyses on massively parallel platforms. The framework is implemented on top of the C++11 Standard Library and a variadic version of the Thrust library and is designed to run on Linux systems, using OpenMP, CUDA […]

OpenCL kernels are compiled first before kernel arguments and launch geometry are provided later at launch time. Although some of these values remain constant during execution, the compiler is unable to optimize for them since it has no access to them. We propose and implement a novel approach that identifies such arguments, geometry, and optimizations […]

Numerous ongoing and future large area surveys (e.g. DES, EUCLID, LSST, WFIRST), will increase by several orders of magnitude the volume of data that can be exploited for galaxy morphology studies. The full potential of these surveys can only be unlocked with the development of automated, fast and reliable analysis methods. In this paper we […]

Massively parallel accelerators such as GPGPUs, manycores and FPGAs represent a powerful and affordable tool for scientists who look to speed up simulations of complex systems. However, porting code to such devices requires a detailed understanding of heterogeneous programming tools and effective strategies for parallelization. In this paper we present a source to source compilation […]

We discuss practical methods to ensure near wirespeed performance from clusters with either one or two Intel(R) Omni-Path host fabric interfaces (HFI) per node, and Intel(R) Xeon Phi(TM) 72xx (Knight’s Landing) processors, and using the Linux operating system. The study evaluates the performance improvements achievable and the required programming approaches in two distinct example problems: […]

TOPICS: * GPU computing, multi GPU processing, hybrid computing * Programming models, programming frameworks, CUDA, OpenCL, communication libraries * Mechanisms for mapping codes * Task allocation * Fault tolerance * Performance analysis * Many Integrated Core architecture, MIC * Intel coprocessor, Xeon Phi * Vectorization * Applications: image processing, signal processing, linear algebra, numerical simulation, […]

The aim of this paper is to show that the multidimensional Monte Carlo integration can be efficiently implemented on computers with modern multicore CPUs and manycore accelerators including Intel MIC and GPU architectures using a new vectorized version of LCG pseudorandom number generator which requires limited amount of memory. We introduce two new implementations of […]