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Lattice quantum chromodynamics simulations in nuclear physics have benefited from a tremendous number of algorithmic advances such as multigrid and eigenvector deflation. These improve the time to solution but do not alleviate the intrinsic…
We study exact sparse linear regression with an $\ell_0-\ell_2$ penalty and develop a branch-and-bound (BnB) algorithm explicitly designed for GPU execution. Starting from a perspective reformulation, we derive an interval relaxation that…
The performance of CPU-based and GPU-based systems is often low for PDE codes, where large, sparse, and often structured systems of linear equations must be solved. Iterative solvers are limited by data movement, both between caches and…
Important memory-bound kernels, such as linear algebra, convolutions, and stencils, rely on SIMD instructions as well as optimizations targeting improved vectorized data traversal and data re-use to attain satisfactory performance. On on…
Branch-and-Bound (B&B) algorithms are time intensive tree-based exploration methods for solving to optimality combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we investigate the use of GPU computing as a major complementary way to speed…
We develop a novel linear-complexity bottom-up sketching-based algorithm for constructing a $H^2$ matrix, and present its high performance GPU implementation. The construction algorithm requires both a black-box sketching operator and an…
This paper presents a unified framework for codifying and automating optimization strategies to efficiently deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained hardware, such as FPGAs, while maintaining high performance, accuracy,…
Decentralized optimization has become vital for leveraging distributed data without central control, enhancing scalability and privacy. However, practical deployments face fundamental challenges due to heterogeneous computation speeds and…
The increase in HPC systems size and complexity, together with increasing on-chip transistor density, power limitations, and number of components, render modern HPC systems subject to soft errors. Silent data corruptions (SDCs) are…
Elegant is an accelerator physics and particle-beam dynamics code widely used for modeling and design of a variety of high-energy particle accelerators and accelerator-based systems. In this paper we discuss a recently developed version of…
This paper proposes a fast system technology co-optimization (STCO) framework that optimizes power, performance, and area (PPA) for next-generation IC design, addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by novel materials and…
The challenge to fully exploit the potential of existing and upcoming scientific instruments like large single-dish radio telescopes is to process the collected massive data effectively and efficiently. As a "quasi 2D stencil computation"…
Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been recently integrated into Transformer architectures due to their potential to reduce computational demands and to improve power efficiency. Yet, the implementation of the attention mechanism using…
Matrix Factorization (MF) on large scale data takes substantial time on a Central Processing Unit (CPU). While Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)s could expedite the computation of MF, the available memory on a GPU is finite. Leveraging GPUs…
We empirically characterise the cost-efficiency deficit between cloud Tensor Processing Units and GPUs for finite-field cryptography. Against A100 GPU baselines (cuZK), we measure a $[5{,}558\times, 6{,}908\times]$ deficit across v5p and v4…
This paper investigates the multi-GPU performance of a 3D buoyancy driven cavity solver using MPI and OpenACC directives on different platforms. The paper shows that decomposing the total problem in different dimensions affects the strong…
It has long been a problem to arrange and execute irregular workloads on massively parallel devices. We propose a general framework for statically batching irregular workloads into a single kernel with a runtime task mapping mechanism on…
The performance of graph programs depends highly on the algorithm, the size and structure of the input graphs, as well as the features of the underlying hardware. No single set of optimizations or one hardware platform works well across all…
Spike sparsity is widely believed to enable efficient spiking neural network (SNN) inference on GPU hardware. We demonstrate this is an illusion: five distinct sparse computation strategies on Apple M3 Max all fail to outperform dense…
Spatial Branch and Bound (B&B) algorithms are widely used for solving nonconvex problems to global optimality, yet they remain computationally expensive. Though some works have been carried out to speed up B&B via CPU parallelization, GPU…