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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) support dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) in order to balance computational performance and energy consumption. However, there still lacks simple and accurate performance estimation of a given GPU…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Histograms are widely used in medical imaging, network intrusion detection, packet analysis and other stream-based high throughput applications. However, while porting such software stacks to the GPU, the computation of the histogram is a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-11-02 Sisir Koppaka , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Srihari Narasimhan , Babu Narayanan

Numerical integration of stochastic differential equations is commonly used in many branches of science. In this paper we present how to accelerate this kind of numerical calculations with popular NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 M. Januszewski , M. Kostur

Stencil computation is one of the fundamental computing patterns in many application domains such as scientific computing and image processing. While there are promising studies that accelerate stencils on FPGAs, there lacks an automated…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xingyu Tian , Zhifan Ye , Alec Lu , Licheng Guo , Yuze Chi , Zhenman Fang

Stencil computations consume a major part of runtime in many scientific simulation codes. As prototypes for this class of algorithms we consider the iterative Jacobi and Gauss-Seidel smoothers and aim at highly efficient parallel…

Performance · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Jan Treibig , Gerhard Wellein , Georg Hager

We consider differential Lyapunov and Riccati equations, and generalized versions thereof. Such equations arise in many different areas and are especially important within the field of optimal control. In order to approximate their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Hermann Mena , Lena-Maria Pfurtscheller , Tony Stillfjord

Machine learning based on neural networks has advanced rapidly, but the high energy consumption required for training and inference remains a major challenge. Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) offers a lightweight, brain-inspired alternative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Wakuto Matsumi , Riaz-Ul-Haque Mian

Many studies have focused on developing and improving auto-tuning algorithms for Nvidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), but the effectiveness and efficiency of these approaches on AMD devices have hardly been studied. This paper aims to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Milo Lurati , Stijn Heldens , Alessio Sclocco , Ben van Werkhoven

In this paper we revisit stencil methods on GPUs in the context of exponential integrators. We further discuss boundary conditions, in the same context, and show that simple boundary conditions (for example, homogeneous Dirichlet or…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Ostermann

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Yuxin Wang , Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu

Parallel computing using accelerators has gained widespread research attention in the past few years. In particular, using GPUs for general purpose computing has brought forth several success stories with respect to time taken, cost, power,…

Computing on graphics processors is maybe one of the most important developments in computational science to happen in decades. Not since the arrival of the Beowulf cluster, which combined open source software with commodity hardware to…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Felipe A. Cruz , Simon K. Layton , Lorena A. Barba

We present an efficient approach for writing architecture-agnostic parallel high-performance stencil computations in Julia, which is instantiated in the package ParallelStencil.jl. Powerful metaprogramming, costless abstractions and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Samuel Omlin , Ludovic Räss

As investment in AI-focused accelerators grows and their deployment in supercomputing facilities expands, understanding whether these architectures can efficiently support traditional scientific kernels is critical for the future of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Lorenzo Piarulli , Daniele De Sensi

In recent years, the development of specialized edge computing devices has significantly increased, driven by the growing demand for AI models. These devices, such as the NVIDIA Jetson series, must efficiently handle increased data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ashiyana Abdul Majeed , Mahmoud Meribout

The Kernel Polynomial Method (KPM) is one of the fast diagonalization methods used for simulations of quantum systems in research fields of condensed matter physics and chemistry. The algorithm has a difficulty to be parallelized on a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Shixun Zhang , Shinichi Yamagiwa , Masahiko Okumura , Seiji Yunoki

This paper presents a workflow for synthesizing near-optimal FPGA implementations for structured-mesh based stencil applications for explicit solvers. It leverages key characteristics of the application class, its computation-communication…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Kamalavasan Kamalakkannan , Gihan R. Mudalige , Istvan Z. Reguly , Suhaib A. Fahmy

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have become an integral part of High-Performance Computing to achieve an Exascale performance. The main goal of application developers of GPU is to tune their code extensively to obtain optimal performance,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Gargi Alavani , Santonu Sarkar

Stencil algorithms on regular lattices appear in many fields of computational science, and much effort has been put into optimized implementations. Such activities are usually not guided by performance models that provide estimates of…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Holger Stengel , Jan Treibig , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair