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In recent years the use of FPGAs to accelerate scientific applications has grown, with numerous applications demonstrating the benefit of FPGAs for high performance workloads. However, whilst High Level Synthesis (HLS) has significantly…
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MLIR has become popular since it was open sourced in 2019. A sub-project of LLVM, the flexibility provided by MLIR to represent Intermediate Representations (IR) as dialects at different abstraction levels, to mix these, and to leverage…
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It has been demonstrated that specialised architectures, such as FPGAs and AMD's AI Engines (AIEs), have the potential to deliver energy and performance advantages for scientific computing. Given the integration of AIEs into AMD's CPUs,…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly deployed in real-time and energy-constrained environments, driving demand for hardware platforms that can deliver high performance and power efficiency. While central processing units (CPUs) and…
The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the Large Language Models (LLMs), have profoundly affected our daily work and communication forms. However, it is still a challenge to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained…
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The success of AI/ML in terrestrial applications and the commercialization of space are now paving the way for the advent of AI/ML in satellites. However, the limited processing power of classical onboard processors drives the community…
This work explores the use of the AMD Xilinx Versal Adaptable Intelligent Engine (AIE) to accelerate Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) inference for latency constrained applications. We present a custom workload distribution framework across the…
Analog in-memory computing (AIMC) cores offers significant performance and energy benefits for neural network inference with respect to digital logic (e.g., CPUs). AIMCs accelerate matrix-vector multiplications, which dominate these…
The challenges associated with effectively programming FPGAs have been a major blocker in popularising reconfigurable architectures for HPC workloads. However new compiler technologies, such as MLIR, are providing new capabilities which…
A range of RISC-V based accelerators are available and coming to market, and there is strong potential for these to be used for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. However, such accelerators tend to provide bespoke programming…
We propose extensions to Fortran which integrate forward and reverse Automatic Differentiation (AD) directly into the programming model. Irrespective of implementation technology, embedding AD constructs directly into the language extends…
Sparse linear algebra is central to many scientific programs, yet compilers fail to optimize it well. High-performance libraries are available, but adoption costs are significant. Moreover, libraries tie programs into vendor-specific…
Efficient AI inference on AMD's Versal AI Engine (AIE) is challenging due to tightly coupled VLIW execution, explicit datapaths, and local memory management. Prior work focused on first-generation AIE kernel optimizations, without tackling…
Machine learning (ML) is successful in achieving human-level artificial intelligence in various fields. However, it lacks the ability to explain an outcome due to its black-box nature. While recent efforts on explainable AI (XAI) has…
The emergence of foundational models and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is poised to transform productivity in scientific computing, especially in code development, refactoring, and translating from one programming language to…