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We present a graph processing benchmark suite with the goal of helping to standardize graph processing evaluations. Fewer differences between graph processing evaluations will make it easier to compare different research efforts and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Scott Beamer , Krste Asanović , David Patterson

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), particularly for large-scale graphs, are crucial across numerous domains. However, training distributed full-batch GCNs on large-scale graphs suffers from inefficient memory access patterns and high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Zhuang , Lingqi Zhang , Du Wu , Peng Chen , Jiajun Huang , Xin Liu , Rio Yokota , Nikoli Dryden , Toshio Endo , Satoshi Matsuoka , Mohamed Wahib

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art deep learning model for representation learning on graphs. It is challenging to accelerate training of GCNs, due to (1) substantial and irregular data communication to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Hanqing Zeng , Viktor Prasanna

Load-balancing among the threads of a GPU for graph analytics workloads is difficult because of the irregular nature of graph applications and the high variability in vertex degrees, particularly in power-law graphs. We describe a novel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Vishwesh Jatala , Loc Hoang , Roshan Dathathri , Gurbinder Gill , V Krishna Nandivada , Keshav Pingali

One major technical challenge for modern analytical database systems is how to leverage GPU to exploit their massive parallelism and high bandwidth. Yet, existing GPU-driven database engines suffer from inefficiencies caused by frequent…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tsuyoshi Ozawa , Kazuo Goda

We describe a computational framework for hierarchical Bayesian inference with simple (typically single-plate) parametric graphical models that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) to accelerate computations, enabling deployment on very…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 János M. Szalai-Gindl , Thomas J. Loredo , Brandon C. Kelly , István Csabai , Tamás Budavári , László Dobos

Elegant is an accelerator physics and particle-beam dynamics code widely used for modeling and design of a variety of high-energy particle accelerators and accelerator-based systems. In this paper we discuss a recently developed version of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 J. R. King , I. V. Pogorelov , K. M. Amyx , M. Borland , R. Soliday

This paper explores practical aspects of using a high-level functional language for GPU-based arithmetic on ``midsize'' integers. By this we mean integers of up to about a quarter million bits, which is sufficient for most practical…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Cosmin E. Oancea , Stephen M. Watt

GPU-based HPC clusters are attracting more scientific application developers due to their extensive parallelism and energy efficiency. In order to achieve portability among a variety of multi/many core architectures, a popular choice for an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ali TehraniJamsaz , Alok Mishra , Akash Dutta , Abid M. Malik , Barbara Chapman , Ali Jannesari

Modern deep learning workloads increasingly exhibit dynamic, metadata-driven execution, where runtime-generated information determines memory provisioning and kernel launch decisions. In sampling-based graph neural network (GNN) training,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yidong Gong , Saima Afrin , Yuchen Ma , Guannan Wang , Bin Ren , Pradeep Kumar

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are widely-used accelerators for data-parallel applications. In many GPU applications, GPU memory bandwidth bottlenecks performance, causing underutilization of GPU cores. Hence, disabling many cores does…

This dissertation presents the design, implementation and evaluation of GPU-accelerated simulation frameworks for Evolutionary Spatial Cyclic Games (ESCGs), a class of agent-based models used to study ecological and evolutionary dynamics.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Louie Sinadjan

The continued growth of the computational capability of throughput processors has made throughput processors the platform of choice for a wide variety of high performance computing applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a prime…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Rachata Ausavarungnirun

Iterative graph algorithms often compute intermediate values and update them as computation progresses. Updated output values are used as inputs for computations in current or subsequent iterations; hence the number of iterations required…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Mark P. Blanco , Scott McMillan , Tze Meng Low

For computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications with a large number of grid points/cells, parallel computing is a common efficient strategy to reduce the computational time. How to achieve the best performance in the modern…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Yong-Xian Wang , Li-Lun Zhang , Wei Liu , Xing-Hua Cheng , Yu Zhuang , Anthony T. Chronopoulos

The vast amount of processing power and memory bandwidth provided by modern Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) make them a platform for data-intensive applications. The database community identified GPUs as effective co-processors for data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Bernd Amann , Youry Khmelevsky , Gaetan Hains

In recent processor development, we have witnessed the integration of GPU and CPUs into a single chip. The result of this integration is a reduction of the data communication overheads. This enables an efficient collaboration of both…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-07 Francisco Corbera , Andrés Rodríguez , Rafael Asenjo , Angeles Navarro , Antonio Vilches , María J. Garzarán

Recent advances in graph processing on FPGAs promise to alleviate performance bottlenecks with irregular memory access patterns. Such bottlenecks challenge performance for a growing number of important application areas like machine…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

Stencil computations are widely used in HPC applications. Today, many HPC platforms use GPUs as accelerators. As a result, understanding how to perform stencil computations fast on GPUs is important. While implementation strategies for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Ryuichi Sai , John Mellor-Crummey , Xiaozhu Meng , Mauricio Araya-Polo , Jie Meng

There is a growing interest in leveraging GPUs for tasks beyond ML, especially in database systems. Despite the existing extensive work on GPU-based database operators, several questions are still open. For instance, the performance of…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Bowen Wu , Dimitrios Koutsoukos , Gustavo Alonso