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Parallel computing is a standard approach to achieving high-performance computing (HPC). Three commonly used methods to implement parallel computing include: 1) applying multithreading technology on single-core or multi-core CPUs; 2)…
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Advances in GPU compute throughput and memory capacity brings significant opportunities to a wide range of workloads. However, efficiently utilizing these resources remains challenging, particularly because diverse application…
Edge computing offers the distinct advantage of harnessing compute capabilities on resources located at the edge of the network to run workloads of relatively weak user devices. This is achieved by offloading computationally intensive…
Modeling plasma accelerators is a computationally challenging task and the quasi-static particle-in-cell algorithm is a method of choice in a wide range of situations. In this work, we present the first performance-portable, quasi-static,…
As we reach the limit of Moore's Law, researchers are exploring different paradigms to achieve unprecedented performance. Approximate Computing (AC), which relies on the ability of applications to tolerate some error in the results to…
High-fidelity simulations of unsteady fluid flow are now possible with advancements in high-performance computing hardware and software frameworks. Since computational fluid dynamics (CFD) computations are dominated by linear algebraic…
As a promising solution to boost the performance of distance-related algorithms (e.g., K-means and KNN), FPGA-based acceleration attracts lots of attention, but also comes with numerous challenges. In this work, we propose AccD, a…
Many data center applications such as machine learning and big data analytics can complete their analysis without processing the complete set of data. While extensive approximate-aware optimizations have been proposed at hardware,…
Scientists are increasingly exploring and utilizing the massive parallelism of general-purpose accelerators such as GPUs for scientific breakthroughs. As a result, datacenters, hyperscalers, national computing centers, and supercomputers…
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This paper optimizes the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm using high-performance computing (HPC) technologies. It uses multi-core processors, GPUs, and parallel computing frameworks like OpenMPI and CUDA to speed up CNN model…
In this paper, we demonstrate how GPU-accelerated BEM routines can be used in a simple black-box fashion to accelerate fast boundary element formulations based on Hierarchical Matrices (H-Matrices) with ACA (Adaptive Cross Approximation).…
As an important goal of high-performance computing, the concept of performance portability has been around for many years. As the failure of Moore's Law, it is no longer feasible to improve computer performance by simply increasing the…
In the recent years, systems using FPGAs, GPUs have increased due to their advantages such as power efficiency compared to CPUs. However, use in systems such as FPGAs and GPUs requires understanding hardware-specific technical…
The rapid growth of AI, data-intensive science, and digital twin technologies has driven an unprecedented demand for high-performance computing (HPC) across the research ecosystem. While national laboratories and industrial hyperscalers…
In recent years, utilization of heterogeneous hardware other than small core CPU such as GPU, FPGA or many core CPU is increasing. However, when using heterogeneous hardware, barriers of technical skills such as CUDA are high. Based on…