Approximate computing through the lens of uncertainty quantification

K Parasyris, J Diffenderfer, H Menon… - … Conference for High …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As computer system technology approaches the end of Moore's law, new computing
paradigms that improve performance become a necessity. One such paradigm is …

Auto-hpcnet: An automatic framework to build neural network-based surrogate for high-performance computing applications

W Dong, G Kestor, D Li - … of the 32nd International Symposium on High …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
High-performance computing communities are increasingly adopting Neural Networks (NN)
as surrogate models in their applications to generate scientific insights. Replacing an …

Approximate High-Performance Computing: A Fast and Energy-Efficient Computing Paradigm in the Post-Moore Era

H Menon, J Diffenderfer, G Georgakoudis… - IT …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As we reach the limits of Moore's law and the end of Dennard scaling, increased emphasis
is being given to alternative system architectures and computing paradigms to achieve …

Towards a SYCL API for approximate computing

L Carpentieri, B Cosenza - … of the 2023 International Workshop on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Approximate computing is a well-known method [7] to achieve higher performance or lower
energy consumption while accepting a loss of output accuracy. Many applications such as …

HPAC-ML: A Programming Model for Embedding ML Surrogates in Scientific Applications

Z Fink, K Parasyris, P Rathi… - … Conference for High …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent advancements in Machine Learning (ML) have substantially improved its predictive
and computational abilities, offering promising opportunities for surrogate modeling in …

Hpac-offload: Accelerating hpc applications with portable approximate computing on the gpu

Z Fink, K Parasyris, G Georgakoudis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The end of Dennard scaling and the slowdown of Moore's law led to a shift in technology
trends towards parallel architectures, particularly in HPC systems. To continue providing …

Fast, transparent, and high-fidelity memoization cache-keys for computational workflows

V Vassiliadis, MA Johnston… - 2022 IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational workflows are important methods for automating complex data-generation
and analysis pipelines. Workflows are composed of sub-graphs that perform specific tasks …

AdaptMD: Balancing Space and Performance in NUMA Architectures With Adaptive Memory Deduplication

L Yao, Y Li, PPC Lee, X Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Memory deduplication effectively relieves the memory space bottleneck by removing
duplicate pages, especially in virtualized systems in which virtual machines run the same …

SeTHet-Sending Tuned numbers over DMA onto Heterogeneous clusters: an automated precision tuning story

G Magnani, D Cattaneo, L Denisov… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Energy and performance optimization of embedded hardware and software is of critical
importance to achieve the overall system goals. In this work, we study the optimization of …

Towards an Approximation-Aware Computational Workflow Framework for Accelerating Large-Scale Discovery Tasks

MA Johnston, V Vassiliadis - Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The use of approximation is fundamental in computational science. Almost all computational
methods adopt approximations in some form in order to obtain a favourable cost/accuracy …