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In this paper we introduce Epiphany as a high-performance energy-efficient manycore architecture suitable for real-time embedded systems. This scalable architecture supports floating point operations in hardware and achieves 50 GFLOPS/W in…
There is interest in exploring hybrid OpenSHMEM + X programming models to extend the applicability of the OpenSHMEM interface to more hardware architectures. We present a hybrid OpenCL + OpenSHMEM programming model for device-level…
KBLAS is a new open source high performance library that provides optimized kernels for a subset of Level 2 BLAS functionalities on CUDA-enabled GPUs. Since performance of dense matrix-vector multiplication is hindered by the overhead of…
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) are a set of low level linear algebra kernels widely adopted by applications involved with the deep learning and scientific computing. The massive and economic computing power brought forth by the…
Dense linear algebra libraries, such as BLAS and LAPACK, provide a relevant collection of numerical tools for many scientific and engineering applications. While there exist high performance implementations of the BLAS (and LAPACK)…
The Adapteva Epiphany many-core architecture comprises a 2D tiled mesh Network-on-Chip (NoC) of low-power RISC cores with minimal uncore functionality. It offers high computational energy efficiency for both integer and floating point…
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) is a core library in scientific computing and machine learning. This paper presents FT-BLAS, a new implementation of BLAS routines that not only tolerates soft errors on the fly, but also provides…
The Epiphany is a many-core, low power, low on-chip memory architecture and one can very cheaply gain access to a number of parallel cores which is beneficial for HPC education and prototyping. The very low power nature of these…
In this paper we use the Adapteva Epiphany manycore chip to demonstrate how the throughput and the latency of a baseband signal processing chain, typically found in LTE or WiFi, can be optimized by a combination of task- and data…
Spatial computing architectures pose an attractive alternative to mitigate control and data movement overheads typical of load-store architectures. In practice, these devices are rarely considered in the HPC community due to the steep…
This paper reports the implementation and performance evaluation of the OpenSHMEM 1.3 specification for the Adapteva Epiphany architecture within the Parallella single-board computer. The Epiphany architecture exhibits massive many-core…
Porting applications to new hardware or programming models is a tedious and error prone process. Every help that eases these burdens is saving developer time that can then be invested into the advancement of the application itself instead…
Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) play key role in high performance and scientific computing applications. Experimentally, yesteryear multicore and General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) are capable of achieving up to 15…
We leverage highly successful prior projects sponsored by multiple NSF grants and gifts from industry: the BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS) and the libflame efforts to lay the foundation for a new flexible framework by…
This book focuses on the use of algorithmic high-level synthesis (HLS) to build application-specific FPGA systems. Our goal is to give the reader an appreciation of the process of creating an optimized hardware design using HLS. Although…
The processor accelerators are effective because they are working not (completely) on principles of stored program computers. They use some kind of parallelism, and it is rather hard to program them effectively: a parallel architecture by…
The bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) model provides a framework for writing parallel programs with predictable performance. In this paper we extend the BSP model to support what we will call pseudo-streaming algorithms for accelerators. We…
We present an approach for integrating the time evolution of quantum systems. We leverage the computation power of graphics processing units (GPUs) to perform the integration of all time steps in parallel. The performance boost is…
The resurgence of machine learning has increased the demand for high-performance basic linear algebra subroutines (BLAS), which have long depended on libraries to achieve peak performance on commodity hardware. High-performance BLAS…
In the construction of exascale computing systems energy efficiency and power consumption are two of the major challenges. Low-power high performance embedded systems are of increasing interest as building blocks for large scale high-…