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The OpenUH compiler is a branch of the open source Open64 compiler suite for C, C++, Fortran 95/2003, with support for a variety of targets including x86_64, IA-64, and IA-32. For the past several years, we have used OpenUH to conduct research in parallel programming models and their implementation, static and dynamic analysis of parallel […]

Several papers show that symbolic regression is suitable for data analysis and prediction in financial markets. Grammatical Evolution (GE), a grammar-based form of Genetic Programming (GP), has been successfully applied in solving various tasks including symbolic regression. However, often the computational effort to calculate the fitness of a solution in GP can limit the area […]

We show that program synthesis can generate GPU algorithms as well as their optimized implementations. Using the scan kernel as a case study, we describe our evolving synthesis techniques. Relying on our synthesizer, we can parallelize a serial problem by transforming it into a scan operation, synthesize a SIMD scan algorithm, and optimize it to […]

The method of using DBT (dynamic binary translation) to execute the source ISAs binary code on target platforms has been perplexed by low overhead for many years. GPU as a many-core processor has tremendous computational power. Employing GPU as a coprocessor to parallel execute the hot spot of binary code hold a great promise of […]

In this paper, we present Patus, a code generation and auto-tuning framework for stencil computations targeted at multi- and manycore processors, such as multicore CPUs and graphics processing units. Patus, which stands for "Parallel Autotuned Stencils," generates a compute kernel from a specification of the stencil operation and a strategy which describes the parallelization and […]

The simulation of blood flow in the cardiac system has the potential to become an attractive diagnostic tool for many cardiovascular diseases, such as in the case of aneurysm. This potential could be reached if the simulations were to be completed in hours rather than days and without resorting to the use of expensive supercomputers. […]

We present a brief report on the collision search for the reduced SHA-1. With a few improvements to our previous work, directed at efficient parallelization on a GPU cluster, we managed to construct a new collision for 75-step reduced SHA-1 hash function.

Graphics processing units (GPUs), originally designed for computing and manipulating pixels, have become general-purpose processors capable of executing in excess of trillion calculations per second. Taking advantage of GPU’s compute power and commodity popularity, the field of computing systems is exhibiting a trend toward heterogeneous platforms consisting of a central processor integrated with graphics hardware. […]

The quest to design environment-friendly and sustainable engineering systems has witnessed more and more fervent efforts in recent years. With the growth of affordable large-capacity computing resources, predictive, science-based computational models have become instrumental in this pursuit. The present work develops efficient computational methods for the uncertainty analysis of large dynamical and mechanical systems with […]

Hyperspectral unmixing is a very important task for remotely sensed hyperspectral data exploitation. It amounts at estimating the abundance of pure spectral signatures (called endmembers) in each mixed pixel of the original hyperspectral image, where mixed pixels arise due to insufficient spatial resolution and other phenomena. The full spectral unmixing chain comprises three main steps: […]

A number of useful image and video processing techniques, ranging from low level operations such as denoising and detail enhancement to higher level methods such as object manipulation and special effects, rely on piecewise-smooth functions computed from the input data. In this thesis, we present two computationally efficient data structures for representing piecewise-smooth visual information […]

MOSIX is a cluster operating system targeted for HighPerformance Computing (HPC) on Linux platforms, including clusters, multi-clusters, GPU clusters and Clouds. The unique features of MOSIX provide users and applications with the impression of running on a single computer with multiple processors, without changing the interface and the run-time environment of their respective login nodes. […]