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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications usually involve intensive computations, which can be accelerated through using open accelerators, especially GPUs due to their common use in the scientific computing community. In addition to code acceleration, it is important to ensure that the code and algorithm are implemented numerically correctly, which is called code verification. This dissertation […]

We present Text2Gestures, a transformer-based learning method to interactively generate emotive full-body gestures for virtual agents aligned with natural language text inputs. Our method generates emotionally expressive gestures by utilizing the relevant biomechanical features for body expressions, also known as affective features. We also consider the intended task corresponding to the text and the target […]

Agent-based simulations represent an effective scientific tool, with numerous applications from social sciences to biology, which aims to emulate or predict complex phenomena through a set of simple rules performed by multiple agents. To simulate a large number of agents with complex models, practitioners have developed high-performance parallel implementations, often specialized for particular scenarios and […]

Differential evolution (DE) is an effective global evolutionary optimization algorithm using to solve global optimization problems mainly in a continuous domain. In this field, researchers pay more attention to improving the capability of DE to find better global solutions, however, the computational performance of DE is also a very interesting aspect especially when the problem […]

Popular network pruning algorithms reduce redundant information by optimizing hand-crafted parametric models, and may cause suboptimal performance and long time in selecting filters. We innovatively introduce non-parametric modeling to simplify the algorithm design, resulting in an automatic and efficient pruning approach called EPruner. Inspired by the face recognition community, we use a message passing algorithm […]

We propose a new framework for computing the embeddings of large-scale graphs on a single machine. A graph embedding is a fixed length vector representation for each node (and/or edge-type) in a graph and has emerged as the de-facto approach to apply modern machine learning on graphs. We identify that current systems for learning the […]

Spatial computing devices have been shown to significantly accelerate stencil computations, but have so far relied on unrolling the iterative dimension of a single stencil operation to increase temporal locality. This work considers the general case of mapping directed acyclic graphs of heterogeneous stencil computations to spatial computing systems, assuming large input programs without an […]

High performance computing (HPC) is now well established as the cornerstone for building and conducting software simulations in numerous scientific and industrial fields. The hardware complexity of supercomputers is steadily increasing, however, to deliver ever improved computing performance, causing the complexity of HPC application development to increase as well. As a result, the need for […]

In the world of algorithm acceleration and the implementation of deep neural networks’ recall phase, OpenCL based solutions have a clear tendency to produce perfectly adapted kernels in graphic processor unit (GPU) architectures. However, they fail to obtain the same results when applied to field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based architectures. This situation, along with an […]

For the last years, we observe the intensive development of accelerated computing platforms. Although current trends indicate a well-established position of GPU devices in the HPC environment, FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) aspires to be an alternative solution to offload the CPU computation. This paper presents a systematic adaptation of four various CFD (Computational Fluids Dynamic) […]

In e-commerce industry, user behavior sequence data has been widely used in many business units such as search and merchandising to improve their products. However, it is rarely used in financial services not only due to its 3V characteristics – i.e. Volume, Velocity and Variety – but also due to its unstructured nature. In this […]

We introduce an automated tool for deploying ultra low-latency, low-power deep neural networks with large convolutional layers on FPGAs. By extending the hls4ml library, we demonstrate how to achieve inference latency of 5μs using convolutional architectures, while preserving state-of-the-art model performance. Considering benchmark models trained on the Street View House Numbers Dataset, we demonstrate various […]