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The ability to model, analyze, and predict execution time of computations is an important building block supporting numerous efforts, such as load balancing, performance optimization, and automated performance tuning for high performance,…

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This paper introduces a novel method for automatically tuning the selection of compiler flags to optimize the performance of software intended to run on embedded hardware platforms. We begin by developing our approach on code compiled by…

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Tuning numerical libraries has become more difficult over time, as systems get more sophisticated. In particular, modern multicore machines make the behaviour of algorithms hard to forecast and model. In this paper, we tackle the issue of…

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We implement a quantum optimal control algorithm based on automatic differentiation and harness the acceleration afforded by graphics processing units (GPUs). Automatic differentiation allows us to specify advanced optimization criteria and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Nelson Leung , Mohamed Abdelhafez , Jens Koch , David I. Schuster

In this paper, we present a new technique to dynamically determine the values of program parameters in order to optimize the performance of a multithreaded program P. To be precise, we describe a novel technique to statically build another…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Alexander Brandt , Davood Mohajerani , Marc Moreno Maza , Jeeva Paudel , Lin-Xiao Wang

Optimizing GPU kernels manually is a challenging and time-consuming task. With the rapid development of LLMs, automated GPU kernel optimization is gradually becoming a tangible reality. However, current LLM-driven automated optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuxuan Han , Meng-Hao Guo , Zhengning Liu , Wenguang Chen , Shi-Min Hu

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…

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This paper proposes a versatile high-performance execution model, inspired by systolic arrays, for memory-bound regular kernels running on CUDA-enabled GPUs. We formulate a systolic model that shifts partial sums by CUDA warp primitives for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Peng Chen , Mohamed Wahib , Shinichiro Takizawa , Ryousei Takano , Satoshi Matsuoka

Scientific software applications are increasingly developed by large interdiscplinary teams operating on functional modules organized around a common software framework, which is capable of integrating new functional capabilities without…

Performance · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Azamat Mametjanov , Boyana Norris

Developing efficient GPU kernels can be difficult because of the complexity of GPU architectures and programming models. Existing performance tools only provide coarse-grained suggestions at the kernel level, if any. In this paper, we…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Keren Zhou , Xiaozhu Meng , Ryuichi Sai , John Mellor-Crummey

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair

Automated tuning of compute kernels is a popular area of research, mainly focused on finding optimal kernel parameters for a problem with fixed input sizes. This approach is good for deploying machine learning models, where the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-17 John Lawson

Linear solvers are major computational bottlenecks in a wide range of decision support and optimization computations. The challenges become even more pronounced on heterogeneous hardware, where traditional sparse numerical linear algebra…

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Autotuning is an established technique for optimizing the performance of parallel applications. However, programmers must prepare applications for autotuning, which is tedious and error prone coding work. We demonstrate how applications…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-14 Thomas Karcher , Christopher Guckes , Walter F. Tichy

Contemporary GPUs allow concurrent execution of small computational kernels in order to prevent idling of GPU resources. Despite the potential concurrency between independent kernels, the order in which kernels are issued to the GPU will…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Teng Li , Vikram K. Narayana , Tarek El-Ghazawi

The strategy of using CUDA-compatible GPUs as a parallel computation solution to improve the performance of programs has been more and more widely approved during the last two years since the CUDA platform was released. Its benefit extends…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-01-12 Chang Xu , Steven R. Kirk , Samantha Jenkins

Custom CUDA kernel development is essential for maximizing GPU utilization in large-scale distributed LLM training and inference, yet manually writing kernels that jointly leverage both computation and communication remains a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Bodun Hu , Yoga Sri Varshan , Saurabh Agarwal , Aditya Akella

High-performance GPU kernel optimization remains a critical yet labor-intensive task in modern machine learning workloads. Although Triton, a domain-specific language for GPU programming, enables developers to write efficient kernels with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haonan Li , Keyu Man , Partha Kanuparthy , Hanning Chen , Wei Sun , Sreen Tallam , Chenguang Zhu , Kevin Zhu , Zhiyun Qian

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…

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