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As applications such as Apple Siri, Google Now, Microsoft Cortana, and Amazon Echo continue to gain traction, webservice companies are adopting large deep neural networks (DNN) for machine learning challenges such as image processing, speech recognition, natural language processing, among others. A number of open questions arise as to the design of a server platform […]

In this thesis, the nucleation rate of almost hard spheres in a course-grained fluid is measured to study the effects of an explicit solvent on the nucleation rate. Previous measurements show a discrepancy between physical measurements and simulations, where the latter all used implicit solvents. In this thesis, the fluid is approximated using Stochastic Rotation […]

Many image processing methods such as corner detection,optical flow and iterative enhancement make use of image tensors. Generally, these tensors are estimated using the structure tensor. In this work we show that the gradient energy tensor can be used as an alternativeto the structure tensor in several cases. We apply the gradient energy tensor to […]

We optimize parameters in OpenACC clauses for a stencil evaluation kernel executed on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) using a variety of machine learning and optimization search algorithms, individually and in hybrid combinations, and compare execution time performance to the best possible obtained from brute force search. Several auto-tuning techniques – historic learning, random walk, simulated […]

In this PhD thesis, we present our research in the domain of high performance software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD). With the increasing demand of high-resolution simulations, there is a need of numerical solvers that can fully take advantage of current manycore accelerated parallel architectures. In this thesis we focus more specifically on developing an […]

Today servers, desktops, mobile devices, and embedded systems contain many processors in addition to the CPU that runs programs. These extra processors are generally called accelerators and could be a GPU, FPGA, Xeon Phi, or other programmable device. There are many types of accelerators available, from many vendors, for many different environments. Khronos developed the […]

Key derivation functions are a key element of many cryptographic applications. Password-based key derivation functions are designed specifically to derive cryptographic keys from low-entropy sources (such as passwords or passphrases) and to counter brute-force and dictionary attacks. However, the most widely adopted standard for password-based key derivation, PBKDF2, as implemented in most applications, is highly […]

The internet is a huge collection of websites in the order of 10^8 bytes. Around 90% of the world’s population uses search engines for getting relevant information. According to Wikipedia, more than 200 million Indians use the Internet every day. Thus the correct data retrieval least time domain is the most important task. Hence need […]

There have been a number of research proposals to use discrete graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate database operations. Although many of these works show up to an order of magnitude performance improvement, discrete GPUs are not commonly used in modern database systems. However, there is now a proliferation of integrated GPUs which are on […]

In this work we focus on tailoring and optimizing the computational Private Information Retrieval (cPIR) scheme proposed in WAHC 2014 for efficient execution on graphics processing units (GPUs). Exploiting the mass parallelism in GPUs is a commonly used approach in speeding up cPIRs. Our goal is to eliminate the efficiency bottleneck of the Dor"{o}z et […]

In this paper, the performance and scalability of different multi-core systems is experimentally evaluated for the Tsunami simulation EasyWave. The target platforms include a standard Ivy Bridge Xeon processor, an Intel Xeon Phi accelerator card, and also a GPU. OpenMP, MPI and CUDA were used to parallelize the program to these platforms. The absolute performance […]

The main topic of this thesis was to implement a computer program that can render photorealistic images by simulating the laws of physics. In practice the program builds an image by finding every possible path that a light ray can travel. Technique presented in this thesis will naturally simulate many physical phenomenons such as reflections, […]