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Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas using a delta-f PIC scheme with evolving background

Moahan Murugappan

Using the GKEngine code which simulates an electrostatic plasma with adiabatic electron response under a sheared-slab geometry, an attempt at developing a hybrid approach between the delta-f and full-f schemes to describe plasma profiles exhibiting high fl ...

EPFL2024

Massively parallel nodal discontinous Galerkin finite element method simulator for room acoustics

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

We present a massively parallel and scalable nodal discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) solver for the time-domain linearized acoustic wave equations. The solver is implemented using the libParanumal finite element framework with extensions ...

Sage Publications Ltd2023

Post-Moore's Law Fusion: High-Bandwidth Memory, Accelerators, and Native Half-Precision Processing for CPU-Local Analytics

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca

Modern data management systems aim to provide both cutting-edge functionality and hardware efficiency. With the advent of AI-driven data processing and the post-Moore Law era, traditional memory-bound scale-up data management operations face scalability ch ...

2023

Inter-actions parallel execution on GPU from high-level dataflow synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Recent GPU architectures make available numbers of parallel processing units that exceed by orders of magnitude the ones offered by CPU architectures. Whereas programs written using dataflow programming languages are well suited for programming heterogeneo ...

IEEE2022

Practical Byzantine-resilient Stochastic Gradient Descent

Sébastien Louis Alexandre Rouault

Algorithms are everywhere. The recipe for the frangipane cake is an algorithm. If all the listed ingredients are available and the cook is sufficiently deft, after a finite number of small, well-defined steps a delicious dessert will exit the oven. Now, wh ...

EPFL2022

Programming Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems by High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Heterogeneous processing platforms combining in various architectures CPUs, GPUs, and programmable logic, are continuously evolving providing at each generation higher theoretical levels of computing performance. However, the challenge of how efficiently s ...

IEEE2020

GPU-accelerated data management under the test of time

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Panagiotis Sioulas, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza

GPUs are becoming increasingly popular in large scale data center installations due to their strong, embarrassingly parallel, processing capabilities. Data management systems are riding the wave by using GPUs to accelerate query execution, mainly for analy ...

2020

Gyrokinetic simulations on many- and multi-core architectures with the global electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Code ORB5

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Emmanuel Lanti, Noé Thomas Elie Ohana, Claudio Gheller

Gyrokinetic codes in plasma physics need outstanding computational resources to solve increasingly complex problems, requiring the effective exploitation of cutting-edge HPC architectures. This paper focuses on the enabling of ORB5, a state-of-the-art, fir ...

2021

Using an antenna as a tool for studying microturbulence and zonal structures in tokamaks with a global gyrokinetic GPU-enabled particle-in-cell code

Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

In order to get a better understanding of the interaction of plasma microinstabilities and associated turbulence with specific modes, an antenna is implemented in the global gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code ORB5. It consists in applying an external ...

EPFL2020

A review of CUDA optimization techniques and tools for structured grid computing

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Recent advances in GPUs opened a new opportunity in harnessing their computing power for general purpose computing. CUDA, an extension to C programming, is developed for programming NVIDIA GPUs. However, efficiently programming GPUs using CUDA is very tedi ...

2020

Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications

Bilal Demir

The cameras are invented by imitating the human visual system to capture the scene. The camera technologies have been substantially advanced in recent years. 108 MP resolution with 100x hybrid zoom has become standard features for smartphone flagships. In ...

EPFL2020

GPU-Accelerated Finite Volume Particle Simulation of Free Jet Deviation by Multi-jet Rotating Pelton Runner

Siamak Alimirzazadeh

Numerical simulation of Pelton turbine hydrodynamics is helpful to identify the energy loss mechanisms in the runner and minimize their effect. However, it is a challenging task that involves handling the unsteady free surface flow and moving boundaries re ...

EPFL2019

Linebacker: Preserving Victim Cache Lines in Idle Register Files of GPUs

Yunho Oh

Modern GPUs suffer from cache contention due to the limited cache size that is shared across tens of concurrently running warps. To increase the per-warp cache size prior techniques proposed warp throttling which limits the number of active warps. Warp thr ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Real-Time 3D Hand Pose Estimation with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

Daniel Thalmann, Hui Liang

In this paper, we present a novel method for real-time 3D hand pose estimation from single depth images using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Image-based features extracted by 2D CNNs are not directly suitable for 3D hand pose estimation due to th ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

3D Bpconvnet To Reconstruct Parallel Mri

Michaël Unser, Kyong Hwan Jin

In recent years, compressed sensing techniques have been applied to the reconstruction of parallel magnetic resonance (MR) images. Particularly for 3D MR signal, it is crucial to acquire fewer samples to reduce the distortions caused by long-time acquisiti ...

IEEE2018

LTRF: Enabling High-Capacity Register Files for GPUs via Hardware/Software Cooperative Register Prefetching

Babak Falsafi, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) employ large register files to accommodate all active threads and accelerate context switching. Unfortunately, register files are a scalability bottleneck for future GPUs due to long access latency, high power consumption, ...

2018

Fast Segmentation from Blurred Data in 3D Fluorescence Microscopy

Michaël Unser, Martin Kurt Storath

We develop a fast algorithm for segmenting 3D images from linear measurements based on the Potts model (or piecewise constant Mumford-Shah model). To that end, we first derive suitable space discretizations of the 3D Potts model, which are capable of deali ...

2017

Parallel Inverse Kinematics for Multithreaded Architectures

Ronan Boulic, Benoît Le Callennec, Mentar Mahmudi, Pawan Kumar Harish

In this article, we present a parallel prioritized Jacobian-based inverse kinematics algorithm for multithreaded architectures. We solve damped least squares inverse kinematics using a parallel line search by identifying and sampling critical input paramet ...

Association for Computing Machinery2016

The finite element square reduced (FE2R) method with GPU acceleration: towards three-dimensional two-scale simulations

Max Ludwig Hodapp

The FE2 method is a renown computational multiscale simulation technique for solid materials with fine-scale microstructure. It allows for the accurate prediction of the mechanical behavior of structures made of heterogeneous materials with nonlinear mater ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Hardware/Software Co-Design of Ultra-Low Power Biomedical Monitors

Ruben Braojos Lopez

Ongoing changes in world demographics and the prevalence of unhealthy lifestyles are imposing a paradigm shift in healthcare delivery. Nowadays, chronic ailments such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes, represent the most common causes o ...

EPFL2016