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Many computer systems for calculating the proper organization of memory are among the most critical issues. Using a tier cache memory (along with branching prediction) is an effective means of increasing modern multi-core processors'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Mohamed A. Hamada , Abdelrahman Abdallah

Hybrid computational architectures based on the joint power of Central Processing Units and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular and powerful hardware tools for a wide range of simulations in biology, chemistry, engineering,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Mario Spera

Nowadays, we are to find out solutions to huge computing problems very rapidly. It brings the idea of parallel computing in which several machines or processors work cooperatively for computational tasks. In the past decades, there are a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Brijender Kahanwal

Our work addresses the enabling of the execution of highly parallel computations composed of loosely coupled serial jobs with no modifications to the respective applications, on large-scale systems. This approach allows new-and potentially…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2008-08-27 Ioan Raicu , Zhao Zhang , Mike Wilde , Ian Foster

In the push for exascale computing, energy efficiency is of utmost concern. System architectures often adopt accelerators to hasten application execution at the cost of power. The Intel Xeon Phi co-processor is unique accelerator that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Gary Lawson , Masha Sosonkina , Yuzhong Shen

The prospects of quantum computing have driven efforts to realize fully functional quantum processing units (QPUs). Recent success in developing proof-of-principle QPUs has prompted the question of how to integrate these emerging processors…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Keith A. Britt , Travis S. Humble

The success of the exascale supercomputer is largely debated to remain dependent on novel breakthroughs in technology that effectively reduce the power consumption and thermal dissipation requirements. In this work, we consider the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Sergio Rivas-Gomez , Antonio J. Peña , David Moloney , Erwin Laure , Stefano Markidis

The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a powerful and cost effective processor for general performance computing. GPUs are capable of an order of magnitude more floating-point operations per second as compared to modern central…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-24 Mark Franey , Pritam Ranjan , Hugh Chipman

Computation intensive kernels, such as convolutions, matrix multiplication and Fourier transform, are fundamental to edge-computing AI, signal processing and cryptographic applications. Interleaved-Multi-Threading (IMT) processor cores are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Abdallah Cheikh , Stefano Sordillo , Antonio Mastrandrea , Francesco Menichelli , Giuseppe Scotti , Mauro Olivieri

Applications that require substantial computational resources today cannot avoid the use of heavily parallel machines. Embracing the opportunities of parallel computing and especially the possibilities provided by a new generation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Martin Weigel

When you first heard people speak of Piles of PCs, the first thing that came to mind may have been a cluttered computer room with processors, monitors, and snarls of cables all around. Collections of computers have undoubtedly become more…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Baker , Rajkumar Buyya , Dan Hyde

This paper concerns development of a high-performance implementation of the Particle-in-Cell method for plasma simulation on Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. We discuss suitability of the method for Xeon Phi architecture and present our…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-05 I. A. Surmin , S. I. Bastrakov , E. S. Efimenko , A. A. Gonoskov , A. V. Korzhimanov , I. B. Meyerov

We examine the Xeon Phi, which is based on Intel's Many Integrated Cores architecture, for its suitability to run the FDK algorithm--the most commonly used algorithm to perform the 3D image reconstruction in cone-beam computed tomography.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Johannes Hofmann , Jan Treibig , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein

Computing demands for large scientific experiments, such as the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC, will increase dramatically in the next decades. To complement the future performance increases of software running on central processing units…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-09 CMS Collaboration

Advancements in multi-core have created interest among many research groups in finding out ways to harness the true power of processor cores. Recent research suggests that on-board component such as cache memory plays a crucial role in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-15 N. Ramasubramanian , Srinivas V. V. , N. Ammasai Gounden

In this paper I describe some results on the use of virtual processors technology for parallelize some SPMD computational programs in a cluster environment. The tested technology is the INTEL Hyper Threading on real processors, and the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gianluca Argentini

The current number one of the TOP500 list, Supercomputer Fugaku, has demonstrated that CPU-only HPC systems aren't dead and CPUs can be used for more than just being the host controller for a discrete accelerators. While the specifications…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Jens Domke

High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are the most powerful tools that we currently have to solve complex scientific simulations. Quantum computing (QC) has the potential to enhance HPC systems by accelerating the execution of specific…

In the past couple of decades, the computational abilities of supercomput- ers have increased tremendously. Leadership scale supercomputers now are capable of petaflops. Likewise, the problem size targeted by applications running on such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Robert Louis Cloud

We use a graphics processing unit (GPU) for fast computations of Monte Carlo integrations. Two widely used Monte Carlo integration programs, VEGAS and BASES, are parallelized on GPU. By using $W^{+}$ plus multi-gluon production processes at…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 J. Kanzaki