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A wide range of bioinformatics applications have to deal with a continuously growing amount of data generated by high-throughput sequencing techniques. Exclusively CPU-based workstations fail to keep up with the task. Instead of employing dozens of CPU cluster nodes to increase the computational power, massively parallel accelerators like modern CUDA-enabled GPUs can be used to […]

High performance computing is a topic that has risen to the top in the era of digitalization, AI and automation. Therefore, the search for more cost and time effective ways to implement HPC work is always a subject extensively researched. One part of this is to have hardware that is capable to improve on these […]

In recent years, deep neural network based medical image analysis has become quite powerful and achieved similar results performance-wise as experts. Consequently, the integration of these tools into the clinical routine as clinical decision support systems is highly desired. The benefits of automatic image analysis for clinicians are massive, ranging from improved diagnostic as well […]

Highly parallelized workloads like machine learning training, inferences and general HPC tasks are greatly accelerated using GPU devices. In a cloud computing cluster, serving a GPU’s computation power through multi-tasks sharing is highly demanded since there are always more task requests than the number of GPU available. Existing GPU sharing solutions focus on reducing task-level […]

In this study, we present a novel dataset for training machine learning models translating between OpenMP Fortran and C++ code. To ensure reliability and applicability, the dataset is created from a range of representative open-source OpenMP benchmarks. It is also refined using a meticulous code similarity test. The effectiveness of our dataset is assessed using […]

An auto-tuning framework for GPU devices is presented for tuning application kernels of OpenCL. The GPU tuner employs multi-objective optimization methodology to improve the performance and power consumption of applications. It efficiently explores a user defined solution space comprising of possible tunable algorithmic and hardware counter variations through code transformations. The methodology targets GPU code […]

OpenCL provides a consistent programming model across CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. However, to get reasonable performance out of FPGAs, OpenCL programs created for other platforms need to be modified. These modifications are often vendor-specific, limiting the portability of OpenCL programs between devices from different vendors. In this paper, we propose AFOCL: a cross-vendor portable programming […]

Addressing performance portability across diverse accelerator architectures has emerged as a major challenge in the development of application and programming systems for high-performance computing environments. Although recent programming systems that focus on performance portability have significantly improved productivity in an effort to meet this challenge, the problem becomes notably more complex when compute nodes are […]

Increasing heterogeneity among HPC platforms requires applications to be frequently ported and tuned, adding burden to developers. Fast evolution of hardware mandates adaptation of algorithms and data structures to get higher performance, while application complexity constantly grows accordingly. Ensuring portability while preserving high performance at large scale along with minimal changes to an already existing […]

As FPGAs and GPUs continue to make inroads into high-performance computing (HPC), the need for languages and frameworks that offer performance, productivity, and portability across heterogeneous platforms, such as FPGAs and GPUs, continues to grow. OpenCL and SYCL have emerged as frameworks that offer cross-platform functional portability between FPGAs and GPUs. While functional portability across […]

We propose an incomplete algorithm for Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) specifically designed to run on neural network accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs. Given a MaxSAT problem instance in conjunctive normal form, our procedure constructs a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) with an equilibrium distribution wherein the probability of a Boolean assignment is exponential in the number […]

The expanding hardware diversity in high performance computing adds enormous complexity to scientific software development. Developers who aim to write maintainable software have two options: 1) To use a so-called data locality abstraction that handles portability internally, thereby, performance-productivity becomes a trade off. Such abstractions usually come in the form of libraries, domain-specific languages, and […]