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With high-performance computing systems now running at exascale, optimizing power-scaling management and resource utilization has become more critical than ever. This paper explores runtime power-capping optimizations that leverage…

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Modern GPUs such as the Ampere series (A30, A100) as well as the Hopper series (H100, H200) offer performance as well as security isolation features. They also support a good amount of concurrency, but taking advantage of it can be quite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Abhijeet Saraha , Yuanbo Li , Chris Porter , Santosh Pande

The exponential growth of floating point power in graphics processing units (GPUs), together with their low cost, has given rise to an attractive platform upon which to deploy lattice QCD calculations. GPUs are essentially many (O(100))…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 M. A. Clark

In this work we evaluate the potential of FPGAs for accelerating HPC workloads as a more power-efficient alternative to GPUs. Using High-Level Synthesis and a large set of optimization techniques, we show that FPGAs can achieve better…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Hamid Reza Zohouri

The HPEC Graph Challenge is a collection of benchmarks representing complex workloads that test the hardware and software components of HPC systems, which traditional benchmarks, such as LINPACK, do not. The first benchmark, Subgraph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Siddharth Samsi , Dan Campbell , Emanuel Scoullos , Oded Green

Parallel programs in high performance computing (HPC) continue to grow in complexity and scale in the exascale era. The diversity in hardware and parallel programming models make developing, optimizing, and maintaining parallel software…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Daniel Nichols , Aniruddha Marathe , Harshitha Menon , Todd Gamblin , Abhinav Bhatele

GPGPU-accelerated clusters and supercomputers are central to modern high-performance computing (HPC). Over the past decade, these systems continue to expand, and GPUs now expose a wide range of hardware counters that provide detailed views…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Onur Cankur , Brian Austin , Dhruva Kulkarni , Abhinav Bhatele

Accuracy and efficiency remain challenges for multi-party computation (MPC) frameworks. Spin is a GPU-accelerated MPC framework that supports multiple computation parties and a dishonest majority adversarial setup. We propose optimized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Wuxuan Jiang , Xiangjun Song , Shenbai Hong , Haijun Zhang , Wenxin Liu , Bo Zhao , Wei Xu , Yi Li

Massively parallel architectures such as the GPU are becoming increasingly important due to the recent proliferation of data. In this paper, we propose a key class of hybrid parallel graphlet algorithms that leverages multiple CPUs and GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Ryan A. Rossi , Rong Zhou

The high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard and the joint exploration model (JEM) codec incorporate 35 and 67 intra prediction modes (IPMs) respectively, which are essential for efficient compression of Intra coded blocks. These IPMs…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Kevin Reuzé , Wassim Hamidouche , Pierrick Philippe , Olivier Déforges

Top-K SpMV is a key component of similarity-search on sparse embeddings. This sparse workload does not perform well on general-purpose NUMA systems that employ traditional caching strategies. Instead, modern FPGA accelerator cards have a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Alberto Parravicini , Luca Giuseppe Cellamare , Marco Siracusa , Marco Domenico Santambrogio

In recent years, the issue of energy consumption in high performance computing (HPC) systems has attracted a great deal of attention. In response to this, many energy-aware algorithms have been developed in different layers of HPC systems,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi

Driven by artificial intelligence, data science, and high-resolution simulations, I/O workloads and hardware on high-performance computing (HPC) systems have become increasingly complex. This complexity can lead to large I/O overheads and…

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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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Weicheng Xue , Christopher J. Roy

Huffman coding finds a prefix code that minimizes mean codeword length for a given probability distribution over a finite number of items. Campbell generalized the Huffman problem to a family of problems in which the goal is to minimize not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 Michael B. Baer

Modern graphics computing units (GPUs) are designed and optimized to perform highly parallel numerical calculations. This parallelism has enabled (and promises) significant advantages, both in terms of energy performance and calculation. In…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Quentin Gallouédec

For some applications where the speed of decoding and the fault tolerance are important, like in video storing, one of the successful answers is Fix-Free Codes. These codes have been applied in some standards like H.263+ and MPEG-4. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Alireza Poostindouz , Adel Aghajan

We present a technique for automatically transforming kernel-based computations in disparate, nested loops into a fused, vectorized form that can reduce intermediate storage needs and lead to improved performance on contemporary hardware.…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Jason Sewall , Simon J. Pennycook

Many important computational problems require utilization of high performance computing (HPC) systems that consist of multi-level structures combining higher and higher numbers of devices with various characteristics. Utilizing full power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Paweł Rościszewski

This paper proposes a novel intelligent framework for oversubscription management in CPU-GPU UVM. We analyze the current rule-based methods of GPU memory oversubscription with unified memory, and the current learning-based methods for other…

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