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Modern computing platforms tend to deploy multiple GPUs (2, 4, or more) on a single node to boost system performance, with each GPU having a large capacity of global memory and streaming multiprocessors (SMs). GPUs are an expensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chao Chen , Chris Porter , Santosh Pande

Both the training and use of Large Language Models (LLMs) require large amounts of energy. Their increasing popularity, therefore, raises critical concerns regarding the energy efficiency and sustainability of data centers that host them.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Grant Wilkins , Srinivasan Keshav , Richard Mortier

Leveraging spatial sparsity has become a popular approach to accelerate 3D computer graphics applications. Spatially sparse data structures and efficient sparse kernels (such as parallel stencil operations on active voxels), are key to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Yuanming Hu , Mingkuan Xu , Ye Kuang , Frédo Durand

Lattice QCD calculations were one of the first applications to show the potential of GPUs in the area of high performance computing. Our interest is to find ways to effectively use GPUs for lattice calculations using the overlap operator.…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-06-27 Andrei Alexandru , Michael Lujan , Craig Pelissier , Ben Gamari , Frank X. Lee

This article presents an automatic approach to quickly derive a good solution for hardware resource partition and task granularity for task-based parallel applications on heterogeneous many-core architectures. Our approach employs a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Peng Zhang , Jianbin Fang , Canqun Yang , Chun Huang , Tao Tang , Zheng Wang

Hardware accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Intel Xeon Phi co-processors (PHIs), and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are now ubiquitous in extreme-scale high performance computing (HPC), cloud, and Big data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Daniel Hanlon , Hamidreza Khalighzadeh , Ravi Reddy Manumachu , Alexey Lastovetsky

Energy efficiency in a data center is a challenge and has garnered researchers interest. In this paper we address the energy efficiency issue of a small scale data center by utilizing Single Board Computer (SBC) based clusters. A compact…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Basit Qureshi , Anis Koubaa

GPUs have become indispensable in high-performance computing, machine learning, and many other domains. Efficiently utilizing the memory subsystem on GPUs is critical for maximizing computing power through massive parallelism. Analyzing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yanbo Zhao , Jinku Cui , Zecheng Li , Shuyin Jiao , Xu Liu , Jiajia Li

This work aims at improving the energy efficiency of decentralized learning by optimizing the mixing matrix, which controls the communication demands during the learning process. Through rigorous analysis based on a state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xusheng Zhang , Cho-Chun Chiu , Ting He

Modeling data sharing in GPU programs is a challenging task because of the massive parallelism and complex data sharing patterns provided by GPU architectures. Better GPU caching efficiency can be achieved through careful task scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Lingda Li , Ari B. Hayes , Stephen A. Hackler , Eddy Z. Zhang , Mario Szegedy , Shuaiwen Leon Song

We propose a CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing method for solving time-evolution partial differential equation problems many times with guaranteed accuracy, in short time-to-solution and low energy-to-solution. On a single-GH200 node, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tsuyoshi Ichimura , Kohei Fujita , Muneo Hori , Lalith Maddegedara , Jack Wells , Alan Gray , Ian Karlin , John Linford

Matlab is very widely used in scientific computing, but Matlab computational efficiency is lower than C language program. In order to improve the computing speed, some toolbox can use GPU to accelerate the computation. This paper describes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Mingzhe Wang , Bo Wang , Qiu He , Xiuxiu Liu , Kunshuai Zhu

Sparse general matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is an important and expensive computation primitive in many real-world applications. Due to SpGEMM's inherent irregularity and the vast diversity of its input matrices, developing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Zhaoyang Du , Yijin Guan , Tianchan Guan , Dimin Niu , Linyong Huang , Hongzhong Zheng , Yuan Xie

General sparse matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM) is a fundamental building block for numerous applications such as algebraic multigrid method (AMG), breadth first search and shortest path problem. Compared to other sparse BLAS routines,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Weifeng Liu , Brian Vinter

Many modern parallel computing systems are heterogeneous at their node level. Such nodes may comprise general purpose CPUs and accelerators (such as, GPU, or Intel Xeon Phi) that provide high performance with suitable energy-consumption…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-19 Suejb Memeti , Lu Li , Sabri Pllana , Joanna Kolodziej , Christoph Kessler

The increasing complexity and scale of cosmological N-body simulations, driven by astronomical surveys like Euclid, call for a paradigm shift towards more sustainable and energy-efficient high-performance computing (HPC). The rising energy…

The increasing demand for computational resources of training neural networks leads to a concerning growth in energy consumption. While parallelization has enabled upscaling model and dataset sizes and accelerated training, its impact on…

Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. Over the years, more than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed, targeting a wide range of hardware architectures and matrix types, each of which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Christodoulos Stylianou , Mark Klaisoongnoen , Ricardo Jesus , Nick Brown , Michele Weiland

Energy efficiency has emerged as a central challenge for modern high-performance computing (HPC) systems, where escalating computational demands and architectural complexity have led to significant energy footprints. This paper presents the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Kajol Kulkarni , Samuel Kemmler , Anna Schwarz , Gulcin Gedik , Yanxiang Chen , Dimitrios Papageorgiou , Ioannis Kavroulakis , Roman Iakymchuk

We propose a GPU-accelerated distributed optimization algorithm for controlling multi-phase optimal power flow in active distribution systems with dynamically changing topologies. To handle varying network configurations and enable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Minseok Ryu , Geunyeong Byeon , Kibaek Kim