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GPU architectures have become popular for executing general-purpose programs. Their many-core architecture supports a large number of threads that run concurrently to hide the latency among dependent instructions. In modern GPU…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Rodrigo Huerta , Mojtaba Abaie Shoushtary , Antonio González

The growing complexity of computational workloads has amplified the need for efficient and specialized hardware accelerators. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as prominent solutions,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Arnab A Purkayastha , Jay Tharwani , Shobhit Aggarwal

When designing modern embedded computing systems, most software programmers choose to use multicore processors, possibly in combination with general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) and/or hardware accelerators. They also often…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Lesley Shannon , Eric Matthews , Nicholas Doyle , Alexandra Fedorova

The paper presents the aspect of use of modern graphics accelerators supporting CUDA technology for high-performance computing in the field of linear algebra. Fully programmable graphic cards have been available for several years for both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Lukasz Swierczewski

This report highlights our work on improving GPU parallelization by supporting compute nodes with multiple GPUs. However, since the default support for multi-GPUs in OpenACC is limited[6], the current implementation allows each MPI process…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Saheed Bolarinwa

Massively parallel architectures such as the GPU are becoming increasingly important due to the recent proliferation of data. In this paper, we propose a key class of hybrid parallel graphlet algorithms that leverages multiple CPUs and GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Ryan A. Rossi , Rong Zhou

The study of biological systems witnessed a pervasive cross-fertilization between experimental investigation and computational methods. This gave rise to the development of new methodologies, able to tackle the complexity of biological…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Daniela Besozzi , Giulio Caravagna , Paolo Cazzaniga , Marco Nobile , Dario Pescini , Alessandro Re

GPUs and other accelerators are popular devices for accelerating compute-intensive, parallelizable applications. However, programming these devices is a difficult task. Writing efficient device code is challenging, and is typically done in…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Tim Besard , Christophe Foket , Bjorn De Sutter

This paper details an extensible OpenCL framework that allows Stan to utilize heterogeneous compute devices. It includes GPU-optimized routines for the Cholesky decomposition, its derivative, other matrix algebra primitives and some…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Rok Češnovar , Steve Bronder , Davor Sluga , Jure Demšar , Tadej Ciglarič , Sean Talts , Erik Štrumbelj

GPU singletasking is becoming increasingly inefficient and unsustainable as hardware capabilities grow and workloads diversify. We are now at an inflection point where GPUs must embrace multitasking, much like CPUs did decades ago, to meet…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jiarong Xing , Yifan Qiao , Simon Mo , Xingqi Cui , Gur-Eyal Sela , Yang Zhou , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

This work deals with the optimization of computer programs targeting Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The goal is to lift, from programmers to optimizing compilers, the heavy burden of determining program details that are dependent on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Xiaohui Chen , Marc Moreno-Maza , Jeeva Paudel , Ning Xie

When considering different hardware platforms, not just the time-to-solution can be of importance but also the energy necessary to reach it. This is not only the case with battery powered and mobile devices but also with high-performance…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Philip Heinisch , Katharina Ostaszewski , Hendrik Ranocha

Graphics processors, or GPUs, have recently been widely used as accelerators in the shared environments such as clusters and clouds. In such shared environments, many kernels are submitted to GPUs from different users, and throughput is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Jianlong Zhong , Bingsheng He

Over the past decade, the landscape of data analytics has seen a notable shift towards heterogeneous architectures, particularly the integration of GPUs to enhance overall performance. In the realm of in-memory analytics, which often…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Harshit Sharma , Anmol Sharma

The paper considers the problem of implementation on graphics processors of numerical integration routines for higher order finite element approximations. The design of suitable GPU kernels is investigated in the context of general purpose…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Krzysztof Banaś , Przemysław Płaszewski , Paweł Macioł

The increasing scale and wealth of inter-connected data, such as those accrued by social network applications, demand the design of new techniques and platforms to efficiently derive actionable knowledge from large-scale graphs. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Abdullah Gharaibeh , Tahsin Reza , Elizeu Santos-Neto , Lauro Beltrao Costa , Scott Sallinen , Matei Ripeanu

In this work, we have explored the advantages and drawbacks of using GPUs instead of CPUs in the calculation of a standard 2-point correlation function algorithm, which is useful for the analysis of Large Scale Structure of galaxies. Taking…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-01 Rafael Ponce , Miguel Cardenas-Montes , Juan Jose Rodriguez-Vazquez , Eusebio Sanchez , Ignacio Sevilla

In recent years graphical processing units (GPUs) have become a powerful tool in scientific computing. Their potential to speed up highly parallel applications brings the power of high performance computing to a wider range of users.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Uldis Locans , Andreas Adelmann , Andreas Suter , Jannis Fischer , Werner Lustermann , Gunther Dissertori , Qiulin Wang

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

We present a single-node, multi-GPU programmable graph processing library that allows programmers to easily extend single-GPU graph algorithms to achieve scalable performance on large graphs with billions of edges. Directly using the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Yuechao Pan , Yangzihao Wang , Yuduo Wu , Carl Yang , John D. Owens