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Electronic structure calculations based on density-functional theory (DFT) represent a significant part of today's HPC workloads and pose high demands on high-performance computing resources. To perform these quantum-mechanical DFT…
The technologically-relevant task of feature extraction from data performed in deep-learning systems is routinely accomplished as repeated fast Fourier transforms (FFT) electronically in prevalent domain-specific architectures such as in…
Parallel processing of information plays a critical role in accelerating computation. This includes quantum computers, where parallel processing of quantum information will play a critical role in practical quantum advantage. Here, we…
Modern out-of-order processors have increased capacity to exploit instruction level parallelism (ILP) and memory level parallelism (MLP), e.g., by using wide superscalar pipelines and vector execution units, as well as deep buffers for…
Intel Xeon Phi many-integrated-core (MIC) architectures usher in a new era of terascale integration. Among emerging killer applications, parallel graph processing has been a critical technique to analyze connected data. In this paper, we…
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…
We have implemented fast Fourier transforms for one, two, and three-dimensional arrays on the Cerebras CS-2, a system whose memory and processing elements reside on a single silicon wafer. The wafer-scale engine (WSE) encompasses a…
Large language models are increasingly deployed on CPU-only platforms where memory bandwidth is the primary bottleneck for autoregressive generation. Weight quantization to four bits or below reduces memory pressure, yet existing systems…
Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are increasingly adopted in scientific computing, yet growing model sizes and resolutions make distributed multi-GPU inference essential. Ulysses sequence parallelism scales DiT inference but introduces…
The scaling of large language models (LLMs) is currently bottlenecked by the rigidity of distributed programming. While high-performance libraries like CuBLAS and NCCL provide optimized primitives, they lack the flexibility required for…
Discrete Fractional Fourier Transforms (DFrFT) are universal mathematical tools in signal processing, communications and microwave sensing. Despite the excessive applications of DFrFT, implementation of corresponding fractional orders in…
In this paper, we present two symbiotic optimizations to optimize recursive task parallel (RTP) programs by reducing the task creation and termination overheads. Our first optimization Aggressive Finish-Elimination (AFE) helps reduce the…
The well-known discrete Fourier transform (DFT) can easily be generalized to arbitrary nodes in the spatial domain. The fast procedure for this generalization is referred to as nonequispaced fast Fourier transform (NFFT). Various…
The Fast Tracker (FTK) is a proposed upgrade to the ATLAS trigger system that will operate at full Level-1 output rates and provide high quality tracks reconstructed over the entire detector by the start of processing in Level-2. FTK solves…
We present an optimized Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) implementation for Apple Silicon GPUs, achieving 138.45~GFLOPS for $N\!=\!4096$ complex single-precision transforms -- a 29\% improvement over Apple's highly optimized vDSP/Accelerate…
This system paper documents the technical foundations for the extension of the Topology ToolKit (TTK) to distributed-memory parallelism with the Message Passing Interface (MPI). While several recent papers introduced topology-based…
General matrix/matrix multiplication (GEMM) is crucial for scientific computing and machine learning. However, the increased scale of the computing platforms raises concerns about hardware and software reliability. In this poster, we…
Large deep learning models have demonstrated strong ability to solve many tasks across a wide range of applications. Those large models typically require training and inference to be distributed. Tensor parallelism is a common technique…