Supporting High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing for Experimental Science

Supporting SELL for High-Performance Computing

We briefly introduce the notion of Semantically Enhanced Library Languages, SELL, as a practical and economical alternative to special-purpose programming languages for high-performance computing. Then we describe the Pivot infrastructure for program analysis and transformation that is our main tool for supporting SELL. Finally, we outline how the IPR (The Pivot’s Internal Program Representatio...

Mechanisms for High Throughput Computing

For many experimental scientists, scienti c progress and quality of research are strongly linked to computing throughput. In other words, most scientists are concerned with how many oating point operations per week or per month they can extract from their computing environment rather than the number of such operations the environment can provide them per second or minute. Floating point operati...

High Performance Reconfigurable Computing for Science and Engineering Applications

This thesis investigates the feasibility of using reconfigurable computers for scientific applications. We review recent developments in reconfigurable high performance computing. We then present designs and implementation details of various scientific applications that we developed for the SRC-6 reconfigurable computer. We present performance measurements and analysis of the results obtained. ...

SPRUCE: A System for Supporting Urgent High-Performance Computing

Modeling and simulation using high-performance computing are playing an increasingly important role in decision making and prediction. For time-critical emergency decision support applications, such as influenza modeling and severe weather prediction, late results may be useless. A specialized infrastructure is needed to provide computational resources quickly. This paper describes the architec...

Cluster Computing: High-Performance, High-Availability, and High-Throughput Processing on a Network of Computers