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There is growing interest in accelerating irregular data-parallel algorithms on GPUs. These algorithms are typically blocking, so they require fair scheduling. But GPU programming models (e.g.\ OpenCL) do not mandate fair scheduling, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Tyler Sorensen , Hugues Evrard , Alastair F. Donaldson

In the quest for highest performance in scientific computing, we present a novel framework that relies on high-bandwidth communication between GPUs in a compute cluster. The framework offers linear scaling of performance for explicit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Martin Rose , Simon Homes , Lukas Ramsperger , Jose Gracia , Christoph Niethammer , Jadran Vrabec

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized various fields, but their deployment on GPUs often leads to significant energy consumption. Unlike existing methods for reducing GPU energy consumption, which are either hardware-inflexible or…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yijia Zhang , Zhihong Gou , Shijie Cao , Weigang Feng , Sicheng Zhang , Guohao Dai , Ningyi Xu

GPUs are vastly underutilized, even when running resource-intensive AI applications, as GPU kernels within each job have diverse resource profiles that may saturate some parts of a device while often leaving other parts idle. Colocating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Elvinger , Foteini Strati , Natalie Enright Jerger , Ana Klimovic

As AI inference becomes mainstream, research has begun to focus on improving the energy consumption of inference servers. Inference kernels commonly underutilize a GPU's compute resources and waste power from idling components. To improve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Ryan Quach , Yidi Wang , Ali Jahanshahi , Daniel Wong , Hyoseung Kim

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become the standard in accelerating scientific applications on heterogeneous systems. However, as GPUs are getting faster, one potential performance bottleneck with GPU-accelerated applications is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jonah Ekelund , Stefano Markidis , Ivy Peng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have extended the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) to non-Euclidean graph data, achieving ground-breaking performance on various tasks such as node classification and graph property prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Tianfeng Liu , Yangrui Chen , Dan Li , Chuan Wu , Yibo Zhu , Jun He , Yanghua Peng , Hongzheng Chen , Hongzhi Chen , Chuanxiong Guo

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

With the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has become increasingly essential across a growing number of safety-critical application domains. Applying a GPU is indispensable for parallel…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yuanhai Zhang , Songyang He , Ruizhe Gou , Mingyue Cui , Boyang Li , Shuai Zhao , Kai Huang

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have revolutionized the computing landscape over the past decade. However, the growing energy demands of data centres and computing facilities equipped with GPUs come with significant capital and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Richard Schoonhoven , Bram Veenboer , Ben van Werkhoven , Kees Joost Batenburg

Improving GPU kernel efficiency is crucial for advancing AI systems. Recent work has explored leveraging large language models (LLMs) for GPU kernel generation and optimization. However, existing LLM-based kernel optimization pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Qitong Sun , Jun Han , Tianlin Li , Zhe Tang , Sheng Chen , Fei Yang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yang Liu

The rapid advancements in autonomous driving have introduced increasingly complex, real-time GPU-bound tasks critical for reliable vehicle operation. However, the proprietary nature of these autonomous systems and closed-source GPU drivers…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Hanqi Zhu , Wuyang Zhang , Xinran Zhang , Ziyang Tao , Xinrui Lin , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

In order to improve system performance efficiently, a number of systems choose to equip multi-core and many-core processors (such as GPUs). Due to their discrete memory these heterogeneous architectures comprise a distributed system within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Hao Wu , Daniel Lohmann , Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

GPUs in High-Performance Computing systems remain under-utilised due to the unavailability of schedulers that can safely schedule multiple applications to share the same GPU. The research reported in this paper is motivated to improve the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Carlos Reano , Federico Silla , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos , Blesson Varghese

Hardware accelerators such as GPUs are required for real-time, low-latency inference with Deep Neural Networks (DNN). However, due to the inherent limits to the parallelism they can exploit, DNNs often under-utilize the capacity of today's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Aditya Dhakal , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan

The continued growth of the computational capability of throughput processors has made throughput processors the platform of choice for a wide variety of high performance computing applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a prime…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Rachata Ausavarungnirun

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) support dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) in order to balance computational performance and energy consumption. However, there still lacks simple and accurate performance estimation of a given GPU…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Iterative memory-bound solvers commonly occur in HPC codes. Typical GPU implementations have a loop on the host side that invokes the GPU kernel as much as time/algorithm steps there are. The termination of each kernel implicitly acts the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Lingqi Zhang , Mohamed Wahib , Peng Chen , Jintao Meng , Xiao Wang , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka

GPUs are widely used to accelerate many important classes of workloads today. However, we observe that several important emerging classes of workloads, including simulation engines for deep reinforcement learning and dynamic neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sankeerth Durvasula , Adrian Zhao , Raymond Kiguru , Yushi Guan , Zhonghan Chen , Nandita Vijaykumar

As recurrent neural networks become larger and deeper, training times for single networks are rising into weeks or even months. As such there is a significant incentive to improve the performance and scalability of these networks. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Jeremy Appleyard , Tomas Kocisky , Phil Blunsom