Stencil computations lie at the heart of many scientific and industrial applications. Stencil
algorithms pose several challenges on machines with cache based memory hierarchy, due …

Nowadays, HPC systems frequently emerge as clusters of commodity processors with
attached accelerators. Moving from tedious low-level accelerator programming to increased …

This article introduces a benchmark application for seismic modeling using finite difference
method, which is namedMiniMod, a mini application for seismic modeling. The purpose is to …

Heterogeneity among the computational resources within a single machine has significantly
increased in high performance computing to exploit the tremendous potential of graphics …

Parallel systems that employ CPUs and GPUs as two heterogeneous computational units
have become immensely popular due to their ability to maximize performance under …

Simulations based on stencil computations (widely used in geosciences) have been
dominated by the MPI+ OpenMP programming model paradigm. Little effort has been …

Alternative programming models and runtimes are increasing in popularity and maturity.
This allows porting and comparing, on competitive grounds, emerging parallel approaches …

The rapid development in computing technology has paved the way for directive-based
programming models towards a principal role in maintaining software portability of …

Two key factors in dam-break modeling are accuracy and speed. Therefore, high-
performance calculations are of great importance to the simulation of dam-break events. In …

Stencil computations lie at the heart of many scientific and industrial applications.
Unfortunately, stencil algorithms perform poorly on machines with cache based memory …