As artificial intelligence transforms from niche to omnipresent, the increased diversity of use-cases and workloads presents an ever-expanding set of platform challenges. With a lot...
Video • Aug 20, 2022
Andrew Lumsdaine, Chief Scientist at Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing, shares his journey in parallelism, from the HPC community’s early skepticism of and eventual move to C++ to build large systems, to his pursuit to...
Podcast • Dec 10, 2020FPGAs have enormous potential to parallel many workloads, offering superior performance than other architectures for a fraction of the energy cost. However, designing custom architectures requires specific knowledge and is time consuming. Seismic applications for...
Video • Dec 1, 2020HPC Kit is an integrated suite of tools for measurement and analysis of program performance on computers ranging from multicore desktop systems to the nation’s largest supercomputers. By using statistical sampling of timers and hardware...
Video • Dec 1, 2020Dr. Navratil will discuss the “state of the art” and near-term trends driving HPC application development efforts in preparation for the massive scale of data and computation in the ExaScale era. He will touch up...
Video • Dec 1, 2020In the European Commission-funded Future and Emerging Technologies initiative OligoArchive, we are working on transforming DNA–the biological building block of life–into a digital building block for long-term data archival. One of the key steps in...
Video • Dec 1, 2020In the first part of this talk, we will introduce the Cache-aware Roofline Model (CARM) and expose its basic principles when modelling the performance upper-bounds of a processor. We will also discuss our recent research...
Video • Dec 1, 2020