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Performance profiles of GPU kernels generated by tools such as Nsight Compute are rich in detail but are often challenging to interpret. To achieve the best performance possible on a given GPU architecture, kernel developers need to spend…
Widely used compilers like GCC and LLVM usually have hundreds of optimizations controlled by optimization flags, which are enabled or disabled during compilation to improve runtime performance (e.g., small execution time) of the compiler…
The effectiveness of Machine Learning (ML) methods depend on access to large suitable datasets. In this article, we present how we build the LS-CAT (Large-Scale CUDA AutoTuning) dataset sourced from GitHub for the purpose of training…
Deep learning (DL) compilers rely on cost models and auto-tuning to optimize tensor programs for target hardware. However, existing approaches depend on large offline datasets, incurring high collection costs and offering suboptimal…
GPU kernels have come to the forefront of computing due to their utility in varied fields, from high-performance computing to machine learning. A typical GPU compute kernel is invoked millions, if not billions of times in a typical…
Large language models (LLMs) have become a significant workload since their appearance. However, they are also computationally expensive as they have billions of parameters and are trained with massive amounts of data. Thus, recent works…
A determinantal point process (DPP) is a probabilistic model of set diversity compactly parameterized by a positive semi-definite kernel matrix. To fit a DPP to a given task, we would like to learn the entries of its kernel matrix by…
Effective performance profiling and analysis are essential for optimizing training and inference of deep learning models, especially given the growing complexity of heterogeneous computing environments. However, existing tools often lack…
Domain specific accelerators present new challenges and opportunities for code generation onto novel instruction sets, communication fabrics, and memory architectures. In this paper we introduce an intermediate representation (IR) which…
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…
We present ReLU-QP, a GPU-accelerated solver for quadratic programs (QPs) that is capable of solving high-dimensional control problems at real-time rates. ReLU-QP is derived by exactly reformulating the Alternating Direction Method of…
Scheduling on dataflow graphs (also known as computation graphs) is an NP-hard problem. The traditional exact methods are limited by runtime complexity, while reinforcement learning (RL) and heuristic-based approaches struggle with…
There is a large body of legacy scientific code written in languages like Fortran that is not optimised to get the best performance out of heterogeneous acceleration devices like GPUs and FPGAs, and manually porting such code into parallel…
To use heterogeneous hardware, programmers must have sufficient technical skills to utilize OpenMP, CUDA, and OpenCL. On the basis of this, I have proposed environment-adaptive software that enables automatic conversion, configuration, and…
In high-performance computing, hotspot GPU kernels are primary bottlenecks, and expert manual tuning is costly and hard to port. Large language model methods often assume kernels can be compiled and executed cheaply, which fails in large…
In this work, we propose KPerfIR, a novel multilevel compiler-centric infrastructure to enable the development of customizable, extendable, and portable profiling tools tailored for modern artificial intelligence (AI) workloads on modern…
The paper combines research approaches that traditionally have been disjoint: 1) model checking as used in formal verification of programs, and 2) auto-tuning as often used in high-performance computing. Auto-tuning frameworks optimize…
As high-performance computing (HPC) systems rapidly evolve, with increasing on-node parallelism and widespread use of accelerators, understanding how the code maps to hardware is essential for reaching optimal performance. Benchmarks are…
Determinantal point processes (DPPs) have attracted significant attention in machine learning for their ability to model subsets drawn from a large item collection. Recent work shows that nonsymmetric DPP (NDPP) kernels have significant…
I present HPRMAT, a high-performance solver library for the linear systems arising in R-matrix coupled-channel scattering calculations in nuclear physics. Designed as a drop-in replacement for the linear algebra routines in existing…