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The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider has a broad physics programme ranging from precision measurements to direct searches for new particles and new interactions, requiring ever larger and ever more accurate datasets of…
Cloud computing for high performance computing resources is an emerging topic. This service is of interest to researchers who care about reproducible computing, for software packages with complex installations, and for companies or…
We present Task Bench, a parameterized benchmark designed to explore the performance of parallel and distributed programming systems under a variety of application scenarios. Task Bench lowers the barrier to benchmarking multiple…
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Quantum computing (QC) has gained significant attention over the past two decades due to its potential for speeding up classically demanding tasks. This transition from an academic focus to a thriving commercial sector is reflected in…
Fusion simulations have traditionally required the use of leadership scale High Performance Computing (HPC) resources in order to produce advances in physics. The impressive improvements in compute and memory capacity of many-GPU compute…
Datacenter servers are increasingly heterogeneous: from x86 host CPUs, to ARM or RISC-V CPUs in NICs/SSDs, to FPGAs. Previous works have demonstrated that migrating application execution at run-time across heterogeneous-ISA CPUs can yield…
Growing deployment of power and energy efficient throughput accelerators (GPU) in data centers demands enhancement of power-performance co-optimization capabilities of GPUs. Realization of exascale computing using accelerators requires…
In this paper, we introduce a software-defined framework that enables the parallel utilization of all the programmable processing resources available in heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) including FPGA-based hardware accelerators and…
Researchers within the Human Brain Project and related projects have in the last couple of years expanded their needs for high-performance computing infrastructures. The needs arise from a diverse set of science challenges that range from…
The technological development of increasingly larger quantum processors on different quantum platforms raises the problem of how to fairly compare their performance, known as quantum benchmarking of quantum processors. This is a challenge…
The ATLAS experiment has developed extensive software and distributed computing systems for Run 3 of the LHC. These systems are described in detail, including software infrastructure and workflows, distributed data and workload management,…
MareNostrum5 is a pre-exascale supercomputer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. With a peak performance of 314 petaflops, MareNostrum5 features a hybrid architecture comprising Intel…
As exascale systems reach unprecedented concurrency, traditional performance analysis tools struggle with the overhead of massive-scale telemetry. We present an accelerated infrastructure for the hpcanalysis framework that leverages a…
Along with today's data explosion and application diversification, a variety of hardware platforms for big data are emerging, attracting interests from both industry and academia. The existing hardware platforms represent a wide range of…
Architectures for quantum computing can only be scaled up when they are accompanied by suitable benchmarking techniques. The document provides a comprehensive overview of the state and recommendations for systematic benchmarking of quantum…
In recent years, due to a higher demand for portable devices, which provide restricted amounts of processing capacity and battery power, the need for energy and time efficient hard- and software solutions has increased. Preliminary…
This paper discusses the challenges encountered when analyzing the energy efficiency of synthetic benchmarks and the Gromacs package on the Fritz and Alex HPC clusters. Experiments were conducted using MPI parallelism on full sockets of…
Exascale computing will get mankind closer to solving important social, scientific and engineering problems. Due to high prototyping costs, High Performance Computing (HPC) system architects make use of simulation models for design space…
Benchmarking is how the performance of a computing system is determined. Surprisingly, even for classical computers this is not a straightforward process. One must choose the appropriate benchmark and metrics to extract meaningful results.…