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Here we present the revised and newly rewritten version of our earlier published CAVE package [J. Busa et al., Comput. Phys. Commun. 181 (2010) 2116] which was originally written in FORTRAN. The package has been rewritten in C language, the algorithm has been parallelized and implemented using OpenCL. This makes the program convenient to run […]

Recent trends of CMOS technology scaling and wide-spread use of multicore processors have dramatically increased the power consumption of main memory. It has been estimated that modern data-centers spend more than 30% of their total power consumption in main memory alone. This excessive power dissipation has created the problem of “memory power wall”; which has […]

OpenCL has become a popular standard to leverage the unique power/performance opportunities found on heterogeneous systems. In this short contribution, we evaluate the latest parallel programming features supported in the OpenCL 2.0 standard. We explore using shared virtual memory and dynamic parallelism to accelerate two example applications.

Speech Recognition run on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) has shown some promising performance improvements ranging 2-10x speedups when compare to execution on CPUs. GPU has continued to introduce new programming features, such as Dynamic Parallelism and Hyper-Q, that could further benefit Speech Recognition processing. In this paper we describe a framework developed at Northeastern describing […]

Subgraph matching is the task of finding all matches of a query graph in a large data graph, which is known as an NP-complete problem. Many algorithms are proposed to solve this problem using CPUs. In recent years, Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have been adopted to accelerate fundamental graph operations such as breadth-first search and […]

Sparse Matrix-Vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of the key operations in linear algebra. Overcoming thread divergence, load imbalance and un-coalesced and indirect memory access due to sparsity and irregularity are challenges to optimizing SpMV on GPUs. This dissertation develops solutions that address these challenges effectively. The first part of this dissertation focuses on a new […]

Common techniques for fine-tuning the performance of automatically vectorized loops in applications for Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors are discussed. These techniques include strength reduction, regularizing the vectorization pattern, data alignment and aligned data hint, and pointer disambiguation. In addition, the loop tiling technique of memory traffic tuning is shown. The optimization methods are illustrated on […]

With growing use of internet and exponential growth in amount of data to be stored and processed (known as ‘big data’), the size of data centers has greatly increased. This, however, has resulted in significant increase in the power consumption of the data centers. For this reason, managing power consumption of data centers has become […]

Gotran provides a framework for working with systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs): Its primary goal is to increase the workflow efficiency of computational modelling in biomedical research. The ODEs, given by the time derivative of state variables, are described in a Gotran form file and can be automatically translated into different outputs depending on […]

Historically, GPU-based HPC applications have had a substantial memory bandwidth advantage over CPU-based workloads due to using GDDR rather than DDR memory. However, past GPUs required a restricted programming model where application data was allocated up front and explicitly copied into GPU memory before launching a GPU kernel by the programmer. Recently, GPUs have eased […]

A system in a metastable state needs to overcome a certain free energy barrier to form a droplet of the stable phase. Standard treatments assume spherical droplets, but this is not appropriate in the presence of an anisotropy, such as for crystals. The anisotropy of the system has a strong effect on their surface free […]

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