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Comprehending the performance bottlenecks at the core of the intricate hardware-software interactions exhibited by highly parallel programs on HPC clusters is crucial. This paper sheds light on the issue of automatically asynchronous MPI…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ayesha Afzal , Georg Hager , Stefano Markidis , Gerhard Wellein

Robustly estimating energy consumption in High-Performance Computing (HPC) is essential for assessing the energy footprint of modern workloads, particularly in fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, development, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Luis G. León-Vega , Niccolò Tosato , Stefano Cozzini

In this work, fundamental performance, power, and energy characteristics of the full SPEChpc 2021 benchmark suite are assessed on two different clusters based on Intel Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids CPUs using the MPI-only codes' variants. We…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Ayesha Afzal , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein

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 scale of scientific High Performance Computing (HPC) and High Throughput Computing (HTC) has increased significantly in recent years, and is becoming sensitive to total energy use and cost. Energy-efficiency has thus become an important…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-14 David Abdurachmanov , Peter Elmer , Giulio Eulisse , Robert Knight , Tapio Niemi , Jukka K. Nurminen , Filip Nyback , Goncalo Pestana , Zhonghong Ou , Kashif Khan

Molecular dynamics simulations are essential tools in computational biophysics, but their performance depend heavily on hardware choices and configuration. In this work, we presents a comprehensive performance analysis of four NVIDIA GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Ayesha Afzal , Anna Kahler , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein

With high-performance computing systems now running at exascale, optimizing power-scaling management and resource utilization has become more critical than ever. This paper explores runtime power-capping optimizations that leverage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Maria Patrou , Thomas Wang , Wael Elwasif , Markus Eisenbach , Ross Miller , William Godoy , Oscar Hernandez

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tomasz Szydlo , Viacheslav Horbanov , Devki Nandan Jha , Shashikant Ilager , Aleksander Slominski , Rajiv Ranjan

This article presents an evaluation of the computational performance and energy efficiency of the Cronos cluster, composed of Raspberry Pi4 and 3b microcomputers designed for educational purposes. Experimental tests were performed using the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Martha Semken , Mariano Vargas , Ignacio Tula , Giuliana Zorzoli , Andrés Rojas Paredes

Energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important for computing systems, in particular for large scale HPC facilities. In this work we evaluate, from an user perspective, the use of Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Enrico Calore , Alessandro Gabbana , Sebastiano Fabio Schifano , Raffaele Tripiccione

Using large-scale multicore systems to get the maximum performance and energy efficiency with manageable programmability is a major challenge. The partitioned global address space (PGAS) programming model enhances programmability by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jérémie Lagravière , Johannes Langguth , Mohammed Sourouri , Phuong H. Ha , Xing Cai

We investigate the energy efficiency of a library designed for parallel computations with sparse matrices. The library leverages high-performance, energy-efficient Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) accelerators to enable large-scale scientific…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Massimo Bernaschi , Alessandro Celestini , Pasqua D'Ambra , Giorgio Richelli

The HPEC Graph Challenge is a collection of benchmarks representing complex workloads that test the hardware and software components of HPC systems, which traditional benchmarks, such as LINPACK, do not. The first benchmark, Subgraph…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Siddharth Samsi , Dan Campbell , Emanuel Scoullos , Oded Green

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.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Holger Brunst , Sunita Chandrasekaran , Florina Ciorba , Nick Hagerty , Robert Henschel , Guido Juckeland , Junjie Li , Veronica G. Melesse Vergara , Sandra Wienke , Miguel Zavala

As dataset sizes increase, data analysis tasks in high performance computing (HPC) are increasingly dependent on sophisticated dataflows and out-of-core methods for efficient system utilization. In addition, as HPC systems grow, memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 George K. Thiruvathukal , Cameron Christensen , Xiaoyong Jin , François Tessier , Venkatram Vishwanath

New challenges in Astronomy and Astrophysics (AA) are urging the need for a large number of exceptionally computationally intensive simulations. "Exascale" (and beyond) computational facilities are mandatory to address the size of…

We present our experience with the modernization on the GR-MHD code BHAC, aimed at improving its novel hybrid (MPI+OpenMP) parallelization scheme. In doing so, we showcase the use of performance profiling tools usable on x86 (Intel-based)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Salvatore Cielo , Oliver Porth , Luigi Iapichino , Anupam Karmakar , Hector Olivares , Chun Xia

Growing deployment of power and energy efficient throughput accelerators (GPU) in data centers demands enhancement of power-performance co-optimization capabilities of GPUs. Realization of exascale computing using accelerators requires…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Nilanjan Goswami , Amer Qouneh , Chao Li , Tao Li

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

Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal growth in the computational capabilities and applications of GPUs. However, this trend has also led to dramatic increase in their power consumption. This paper surveys research works on analyzing and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Sparsh Mittal , Jeffrey S. Vetter
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