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We describe here a library aimed at automating the solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method. By employing novel techniques for automated code generation, the library combines a high level of expressiveness…

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An out-of-core stencil computation code handles large data whose size is beyond the capacity of GPU memory. Whereas, such an code requires streaming data to and from the GPU frequently. As a result, data movement between the CPU and GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jingcheng Shen , Xin Deng , Yifan Wu , Masao Okita , Fumihiko Ino

Theano is a Python library that allows to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. Since its introduction, it has been one of the most used CPU and GPU mathematical compilers -…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-05-10 The Theano Development Team , Rami Al-Rfou , Guillaume Alain , Amjad Almahairi , Christof Angermueller , Dzmitry Bahdanau , Nicolas Ballas , Frédéric Bastien , Justin Bayer , Anatoly Belikov , Alexander Belopolsky , Yoshua Bengio , Arnaud Bergeron , James Bergstra , Valentin Bisson , Josh Bleecher Snyder , Nicolas Bouchard , Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski , Xavier Bouthillier , Alexandre de Brébisson , Olivier Breuleux , Pierre-Luc Carrier , Kyunghyun Cho , Jan Chorowski , Paul Christiano , Tim Cooijmans , Marc-Alexandre Côté , Myriam Côté , Aaron Courville , Yann N. Dauphin , Olivier Delalleau , Julien Demouth , Guillaume Desjardins , Sander Dieleman , Laurent Dinh , Mélanie Ducoffe , Vincent Dumoulin , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Dumitru Erhan , Ziye Fan , Orhan Firat , Mathieu Germain , Xavier Glorot , Ian Goodfellow , Matt Graham , Caglar Gulcehre , Philippe Hamel , Iban Harlouchet , Jean-Philippe Heng , Balázs Hidasi , Sina Honari , Arjun Jain , Sébastien Jean , Kai Jia , Mikhail Korobov , Vivek Kulkarni , Alex Lamb , Pascal Lamblin , Eric Larsen , César Laurent , Sean Lee , Simon Lefrancois , Simon Lemieux , Nicholas Léonard , Zhouhan Lin , Jesse A. Livezey , Cory Lorenz , Jeremiah Lowin , Qianli Ma , Pierre-Antoine Manzagol , Olivier Mastropietro , Robert T. McGibbon , Roland Memisevic , Bart van Merriënboer , Vincent Michalski , Mehdi Mirza , Alberto Orlandi , Christopher Pal , Razvan Pascanu , Mohammad Pezeshki , Colin Raffel , Daniel Renshaw , Matthew Rocklin , Adriana Romero , Markus Roth , Peter Sadowski , John Salvatier , François Savard , Jan Schlüter , John Schulman , Gabriel Schwartz , Iulian Vlad Serban , Dmitriy Serdyuk , Samira Shabanian , Étienne Simon , Sigurd Spieckermann , S. Ramana Subramanyam , Jakub Sygnowski , Jérémie Tanguay , Gijs van Tulder , Joseph Turian , Sebastian Urban , Pascal Vincent , Francesco Visin , Harm de Vries , David Warde-Farley , Dustin J. Webb , Matthew Willson , Kelvin Xu , Lijun Xue , Li Yao , Saizheng Zhang , Ying Zhang

The simulation of the two-dimensional Ising model is used as a benchmark to show the computational capabilities of Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The rich programming environment now available on GPUs and flexible hardware capabilities…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Joshua Romero , Mauro Bisson , Massimiliano Fatica , Massimo Bernaschi

The DINO family of self-supervised vision models has shown remarkable transferability, yet effectively adapting their representations for segmentation remains challenging. Existing approaches often rely on heavy decoders with multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sicheng Yang , Hongqiu Wang , Zhaohu Xing , Sixiang Chen , Lei Zhu

We introduce SpDISTAL, a compiler for sparse tensor algebra that targets distributed systems. SpDISTAL combines separate descriptions of tensor algebra expressions, sparse data structures, data distribution, and computation distribution.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Rohan Yadav , Alex Aiken , Fredrik Kjolstad

This paper introduces Tiramisu, a polyhedral framework designed to generate high performance code for multiple platforms including multicores, GPUs, and distributed machines. Tiramisu introduces a scheduling language with novel extensions…

Stencils represent a class of computational patterns where an output grid point depends on a fixed shape of neighboring points in an input grid. Stencil computations are prevalent in scientific applications engaging a significant portion of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Fabrizio Petrini , Hongbo Rong , Andrei Valentin , Carl Ebeling

Stencil algorithms have been receiving considerable interest in HPC research for decades. The techniques used to approach multi-core stencil performance modeling and engineering span basic runtime measurements, elaborate performance models,…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Julian Hornich , Julian Hammer , Georg Hager , Thomas Gruber , Gerhard Wellein

Stencil computations are widely used to simulate the change of state of physical systems across a multidimensional grid over multiple timesteps. The state-of-the-art techniques in this area fall into three groups: cache-aware tiled looping…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Zafar Ahmad , Rezaul Chowdhury , Rathish Das , Pramod Ganapathi , Aaron Gregory , Yimin Zhu

We present an efficient approach for writing architecture-agnostic parallel high-performance stencil computations in Julia, which is instantiated in the package ParallelStencil.jl. Powerful metaprogramming, costless abstractions and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Samuel Omlin , Ludovic Räss

Stencil computations are a fundamental kernel in scientific computing, critical for simulations in domains such as fluid dynamics and climate modeling. However, these computations are often memory-bound on traditional High-Performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Elia Belli , Daniele De Sensi

We present Nautilus, a novel tensor compiler that moves toward fully automated math-to-kernel optimization. Nautilus compiles a high-level algebraic specification of tensor operators into efficient tiled GPU kernels. Nautilus's successive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yifan Zhao , Yuchen Yang , Matei Budiu , Sasa Misailovic

We introduce Stencil-Lifting, a novel system for automatically converting stencil kernels written in low-level languages in legacy code into semantically equivalent Domain-Specific Language (DSL) implementations. Targeting the efficiency…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mingyi Li , Junmin Xiao , Siyan Chen , Hui Ma , Xi Chen , Peihua Bao , Liang Yuan , Guangming Tan

Partial differential equation (PDE) solvers are extensively utilized across numerous scientific and engineering fields. However, achieving high performance and scalability often necessitates intricate and low-level programming, particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Huanqi Cao , Shizhi Tang , Qianchao Zhu , Bowen Yu , Wenguang Chen

All major weather and climate applications are currently developed using languages such as Fortran or C++. This is typical in the domain of high performance computing (HPC), where efficient execution is an important concern. Unfortunately,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Enrique G. Paredes , Linus Groner , Stefano Ubbiali , Hannes Vogt , Alberto Madonna , Kean Mariotti , Felipe Cruz , Lucas Benedicic , Mauro Bianco , Joost VandeVondele , Thomas C. Schulthess

The ability to differentiate through optimization problems has unlocked numerous applications, from optimization-based layers in machine learning models to complex design problems formulated as bilevel programs. It has been shown that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Lucas Fuentes Valenzuela , Robin Brown , Marco Pavone

Stencil computations are a key class of applications, widely used in the scientific computing community, and a class that has particularly benefited from performance improvements on architectures with high memory bandwidth. Unfortunately,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Istvan Z Reguly , Gihan R Mudalige , Michael B Giles

Dynamism is common in AI computation, e.g., the dynamic tensor shapes and the dynamic control flows in models. Due to the long compilation time, existing runtime compilation damages the model efficiency, while the offline compilers either…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jingzhi Fang , Xiong Gao , Renwei Zhang , Zichun Ye , Lei Chen , Jie Zhao , Chengnuo Huang , Hui Xu , Xuefeng Jin

Multilinear algebra kernel performance on modern massively-parallel systems is determined mainly by data movement. However, deriving data movement-optimal distributed schedules for programs with many high-dimensional inputs is a notoriously…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Tal Ben-Nun , Timo Schneider , Torsten Hoefler