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Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) has been widely used as a fundamental tool in many application domains, where it often dominates the application running time. While many researchers have proposed various optimizations for UOT, few have…

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Discrete optimization is a central problem in artificial intelligence. The optimization of the aggregated cost of a network of cost functions arises in a variety of problems including (W)CSP, DCOP, as well as optimization in stochastic…

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The last decade has seen a shift in the computer systems industry where heterogeneous computing has become prevalent. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are now present in supercomputers to mobile phones and tablets. GPUs are used for…

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Memory bandwidth is known to be a performance bottleneck for FPGA accelerators, especially when they deal with large multi-dimensional data-sets. A large body of work focuses on reducing of off-chip transfers, but few authors try to improve…

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Parallel implementations of distributed global optimization (DGO) [13] on MP-1 and NCUBE parallel computers revealed an approximate O(n) increase in the performance of this algorithm. Therefore, the implementation of the DGO on parallel…

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Transmission Topology Optimization has great potential to improve efficiency and flexibility of grid operations through non-costly switching actions, but previous approaches struggle with runtime performance and scalability. In this work,…

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GPU-accelerated Self-Organizing Map (SOM) implementations are among the most competitive options for large-scale SOM analysis, but growing dataset sizes increasingly challenge their practical use because workloads no longer fit cleanly…

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This report presents an adaptive work-efficient approach for implementing the Connected Components algorithm on GPUs. The results show a considerable increase in performance (up to 6.8$\times$) over current state-of-the-art solutions.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Michael Sutton , Tal Ben-Nun , Amnon Barak , Sreepathi Pai , Keshav Pingali

We present a GPU implementation of LAMMPS, a widely-used parallel molecular dynamics (MD) software package, and show 5x to 13x single node speedups versus the CPU-only version of LAMMPS. This new CUDA package for LAMMPS also enables…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-08 Christian R. Trott , Lars Winterfeld , Paul S. Crozier

The Random Phase Approximation (RPA) for correlation energy in the grid-based projector augmented wave (gpaw) code is accelerated by porting to the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) architecture. The acceleration is achieved by grouping…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 Jun Yan , Lin Li , Christopher O'Grady

CUDA Unified Memory improves the GPU programmability and also enables GPU memory oversubscription. Recently, two advanced memory features, memory advises and asynchronous prefetch, have been introduced. In this work, we evaluate the new…

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Matrix multiplication is a foundational operation in scientific computing and machine learning, yet its computational complexity makes it a significant bottleneck for large-scale applications. The shift to parallel architectures, primarily…

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We propose a new hybrid topology optimization algorithm based on multigrid approach that combines the parallelization strategy of CPU using OpenMP and heavily multithreading capabilities of modern Graphics Processing Units (GPU). In…

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We describe GPU implementations of the matrix recommender algorithms CCD++ and ALS. We compare the processing time and predictive ability of the GPU implementations with existing multi-core versions of the same algorithms. Results on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-11-10 André Valente Rodrigues , Alípio Jorge , Inês Dutra

This paper provides an in-depth characterization of GPU-accelerated systems, to understand the interplay between overlapping computation and communication which is commonly employed in distributed training settings. Due to the large size of…

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We carry out a comparative performance study of multi-core CPUs, GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi (Many Integrated Core - MIC) with a microscopy image analysis application. We experimentally evaluate the performance of computing devices on core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-15 George Teodoro , Tahsin Kurc , Guilherme Andrade , Jun Kong , Renato Ferreira , Joel Saltz

GPUs have been widely used to accelerate computations exhibiting simple patterns of parallelism - such as flat or two-level parallelism - and a degree of parallelism that can be statically determined based on the size of the input dataset.…

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Designing and optimizing FPGA overlays is a complex and time-consuming process, often requiring multiple trial-and-error iterations to determine a suitable configuration. This paper presents an AI-driven approach to optimizing FPGA overlay…

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We present SPDL (Scalable and Performant Data Loading), an open-source, framework-agnostic library designed for efficiently loading array data to GPU. Data loading is often a bottleneck in AI applications, and is challenging to optimize…