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Currently, the most energy-efficient hardware platforms for floating point-intensive calculations (also known as High Performance Computing, or HPC) are graphical processing units (GPUs). However, porting existing scientific codes to GPUs…

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)…

FPGAs have found increasing adoption in data center applications since a new generation of high-level tools have become available which noticeably reduce development time for FPGA accelerators and still provide high quality of results.…

Exascale computing will get mankind closer to solving important social, scientific and engineering problems. Due to high prototyping costs, High Performance Computing (HPC) system architects make use of simulation models for design space…

As research and deployment of AI grows, the computational burden to support and sustain its progress inevitably does too. To train or fine-tune state-of-the-art models in NLP, computer vision, etc., some form of AI hardware acceleration is…

GPUs are the heart of the latest generations of supercomputers. We efficiently accelerate a compressible multiphase flow solver via OpenACC on NVIDIA and AMD Instinct GPUs. Optimization is accomplished by specifying the directive clauses…

Splotch is a rendering algorithm for exploration and visual discovery in particle-based datasets coming from astronomical observations or numerical simulations. The strengths of the approach are production of high quality imagery and…

This paper presents the GPU porting through OpenACC directives of the Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) application, a high-resolution atmospheric model. The code is written in Fortran~90 and features parallel (distributed)…

GPU is the dominant accelerator device due to its high performance and energy efficiency. Directive-based GPU offloading using OpenACC or OpenMP target is a convenient way to port existing codes originally developed for multicore CPUs.…

Point-based 3D point cloud models employ computation and memory intensive mapping functions alongside NN layers for classification/segmentation, and are executed on server-grade GPUs. The sparse, and unstructured nature of 3D point cloud…

High-performance computing (HPC) is reshaping computational drug discovery by enabling large-scale, time-efficient molecular simulations. In this work, we explore HPC-driven pipelines for Alzheimer's disease drug discovery, focusing on…

OpenACC lowers the barrier to GPU offloading, but writing high-performing pragma remains complex, requiring deep domain expertise in memory hierarchies, data movement, and parallelization strategies. Large Language Models (LLMs) present a…

The performance of discrete general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) has been improving at a rapid pace. The PCIe interconnect that controls the communication of data between the system host memory and the GPU has not improved as…

Bias-scalable analog computing is attractive for implementing machine learning (ML) processors with distinct power-performance specifications. For instance, ML implementations for server workloads are focused on higher computational…

Technological advances in the past decade, hardware and software alike, have made access to high-performance computing (HPC) easier than ever. We review these advances from a statistical computing perspective. Cloud computing makes access…

The scale of scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Throughput Computing (HTC) has increased significantly in recent years, and is becoming sensitive to total energy use and cost. Energy-efficiency has thus become an important…

We present new results on the strong parallel scaling for the OpenACC-accelerated implementation of the high-order spectral element fluid dynamics solver Nek5000. The test case considered consists of a direct numerical simulation of…

The increasing use and cost of high performance computing (HPC) requires new easy-to-use tools to enable HPC users and HPC systems engineers to transparently understand the utilization of resources. The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing…

LLM inference is constrained by GPU memory capacity and bandwidth. Tiered memory architectures mitigate this by allowing the GPU to offload memory to the remote tier. However, existing memory offloading frameworks rely on prefetching data…

In recent years, high speed and high resolution analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is widely employed in many physical experiments, especially in high precision time and charge measurement. The rapid increasing amount of digitized data…