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The development of the A64FX processor by Fujitsu has been a massive innovation in vectorized processors and led to Fugaku: the current world's fastest supercomputer. We use a variety of tools to analyze the behavior and performance of…
We present a look at Ookami, a project providing community access to a testbed supercomputer with the ARM-based A64FX processors developed by a collaboration between RIKEN and Fujitsu and deployed in the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku. We…
Ookami is a computer technology testbed supported by the United States National Science Foundation. It provides researchers with access to the A64FX processor developed by Fujitsu in collaboration with RIK{\Xi}N for the Japanese path to…
The A64FX processor from Fujitsu, being designed for computational simulation and machine learning applications, has the potential for unprecedented performance in HPC systems. In this paper, we evaluate the A64FX by benchmarking against a…
The Fujitsu A64FX ARM-based processor is used in supercomputers such as Fugaku in Japan and Isambard 2 in the UK and provides an interesting combination of hardware features such as Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), and native support for…
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…
The increasing availability of machines relying on non-GPU architectures, such as ARM A64FX in high-performance computing, provides a set of interesting challenges to application developers. In addition to requiring code portability across…
The A64FX CPU is arguably the most powerful Arm-based processor design to date. Although it is a traditional cache-based multicore processor, its peak performance and memory bandwidth rival accelerator devices. A good understanding of its…
Many modern parallel computing systems are heterogeneous at their node level. Such nodes may comprise general purpose CPUs and accelerators (such as, GPU, or Intel Xeon Phi) that provide high performance with suitable energy-consumption…
This article is the result of a collaboration between Fujitsu and Advestis. This collaboration aims at refactoring and running an algorithm based on systematic exploration producing investment recommendations on a high-performance computer…
We present an expanded study of the performance of FLASH when using Linux Kernel Hugepages on Ookami, an HPE Apollo 80 A64FX platform. FLASH is a multi-scale, multi-physics simulation code written principally in modern Fortran and makes use…
Over the last decade, most of the increase in computing power has been gained by advances in accelerated many-core architectures, mainly in the form of GPGPUs. While accelerators achieve phenomenal performances in various computing tasks,…
Quantum computer simulators running on classical computers are essential for developing real quantum computers and emerging quantum applications. In particular, state vector simulators, which store a full state vector in memory and update…
Astrophysical simulations are computation, memory, and thus energy intensive, thereby requiring new hardware advances for progress. Stony Brook University recently expanded its computing cluster "SeaWulf" with an addition of 94 new nodes…
Vector architectures are gaining traction for highly efficient processing of data-parallel workloads, driven by all major ISAs (RISC-V, Arm, Intel), and boosted by landmark chips, like the Arm SVE-based Fujitsu A64FX, powering the TOP500…
FPGA-based hardware accelerators have received increasing attention mainly due to their ability to accelerate deep pipelined applications, thus resulting in higher computational performance and energy efficiency. Nevertheless, the amount of…
Accelerated computing is widely used in high-performance computing. Therefore, it is crucial to experiment and discover how to better utilize GPUGPUs latest generations on relevant applications. In this paper, we present results and share…
This paper presents a comparison of OpenMP and OpenCL based on the parallel implementation of algorithms from various fields of computer applications. The focus of our study is on the performance of benchmark comparing OpenMP and OpenCL. We…
We present our experience with the modernization on the GR-MHD code BHAC, aimed at improving its novel hybrid (MPI+OpenMP) parallelization scheme. In doing so, we showcase the use of performance profiling tools usable on x86 (Intel-based)…
This paper presents a comprehensive comparison of three dominant parallel programming models in High Performance Computing (HPC): Message Passing Interface (MPI), Open Multi-Processing (OpenMP), and Compute Unified Device Architecture…