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Modern HPC systems are built with innovative system architectures and novel programming models to further push the speed limit of computing. The increased complexity poses challenges for performance portability and performance evaluation.…

We present a thorough performance and energy consumption analysis of the LULESH proxy application in its OpenMP and MPI variants on two different clusters based on Intel Ice Lake (ICL) and Sapphire Rapids (SPR) CPUs. We first study the…

The paper demonstrates the optimization of the execution environment of a hybrid OpenMP+MPI computational fluid dynamics code (shallow water equation solver) on a cluster enabled with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. The discussion includes:…

Edge computing has emerged as a pivotal technology, offering significant advantages such as low latency, enhanced data security, and reduced reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure. These benefits are crucial for applications requiring…

High Performance and Energy Efficiency are critical requirements for Internet of Things (IoT) end-nodes. Exploiting tightly-coupled clusters of programmable processors (CMPs) has recently emerged as a suitable solution to address this…

This paper discusses the challenges encountered when analyzing the energy efficiency of synthetic benchmarks and the Gromacs package on the Fritz and Alex HPC clusters. Experiments were conducted using MPI parallelism on full sockets of…

Power efficiency has recently become a major concern in the high-performance computing domain. HPC centers are provisioned by a power bound which impacts execution time. Naturally, a tradeoff arises between power efficiency and…

Hardware platforms in high performance computing are constantly getting more complex to handle even when considering multicore CPUs alone. Numerous features and configuration options in the hardware and the software environment that are…

In this paper we analyze the MPI-only version of the CloverLeaf code from the SPEChpc 2021 benchmark suite on recent Intel Xeon "Ice Lake" and "Sapphire Rapids" server CPUs. We observe peculiar breakdowns in performance when the number of…

With recent developments in parallel supercomputing architecture, many core, multi-core, and GPU processors are now commonplace, resulting in more levels of parallelism, memory hierarchy, and programming complexity. It has been necessary to…

In this paper we explore the performance of Intel Xeon MAX CPU Series, representing the most significant new variation upon the classical CPU architecture since the Intel Xeon Phi Processor. Given the availability of a large on-package…

High performance computing (HPC) devices is no longer exclusive for academic, R&D, or military purposes. The use of HPC device such as supercomputer now growing rapidly as some new area arise such as big data, and computer simulation. It…

Memory-bound algorithms show complex performance and energy consumption behavior on multicore processors. We choose the lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) on an Intel Sandy Bridge cluster as a prototype scenario to investigate if and how…

The overwhelming majority of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and server infrastructure uses Intel x86 processors. This makes an architectural analysis of these processors relevant for a wide audience of administrators and…

Fully provisioned Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallelism achieves near-optimal wall-clock time for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solvers. This work addresses a complementary question for shared, cloud-managed clusters: can…

Specialized accelerators dominate AI workloads, but CPUs remain critical for orchestrating these accelerators and running datacenter services. As a result, CPU performance increasingly shapes end-to-end system efficiency, making it…

We present a comparative analysis of the maximum performance achieved by the Linpack benchmark on compute intensive hardware publicly available from multiple cloud providers. We study both performance within a single compute node, and…

Scientific communities are increasingly adopting machine learning and deep learning models in their applications to accelerate scientific insights. High performance computing systems are pushing the frontiers of performance with a rich…

Task-oriented integrated sensing, communication, and computation (ISCC) is a key technology for achieving low-latency edge inference and enabling efficient implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in industrial cyber-physical systems…

The SpMV kernel is characterized by high performance variation per input matrix and computing platform. While GPUs were considered State-of-the-Art for SpMV, with the emergence of advanced multicore CPUs and low-power FPGA accelerators, we…