In order to take full advantage of high-end computing platforms, scientific applications often require modifications to source codes, and to their build systems that generate executable files. The ever-increasing emphasis on productivity in HPC makes the efficiency of the build process an extremely important issue. Our work is motivated by the need for a systematic approach to the HPC lifecycle...

Modern manufacturing facilities for bioproducts are highly automated with advanced process monitoring and data archiving systems. The time dynamics of hundreds of process parameters and outcome variables over a large number of production runs are archived in the data warehouse. This vast amount of data is a vital resource to comprehend the complex characteristics of bioprocesses and enhance pro...

Heterogeneous devices require much more work from programmers than traditional CPUs, particularly when there are several of them, as each one has its own memory space. Multidevice applications require to distribute kernel executions and, even worse, arrays portions that must be kept coherent among the different device memories and the host memory. In addition, when devices with different charac...

Ibrahim Diakite, University of Texas, Arlington Tyson DiLorenzo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute David A. Edwards, University of Delaware Brooks Emerick, University of Delaware Rui Fang, University of Delaware Fangxu Jing, Georgia Institute of Technology Longfei Li, University of Delaware Jennifer Miller, University of Delaware Mark Panaggio, Northwestern University Angela Peace, Arizona State...

In this paper, we qualitatively address how high-level parallel languages improve productivity and performance. Using ZPL as a case study, we discuss advantages that stem from a language having both a global (rather than a perprocessor) view of the computation and an underlying performance model that statically identifies communication in code. We also candidly discuss several disadvantages to ...

High temperature anomalies have recently been shown to have adverse impacts on multiple health and socio-economic outcomes. A well established literature on the impacts of early life stress on life-long human capital accumulation has led us to hypothesize that high temperature anomalies can have long-term impacts on economic productivity. Using data on historical weather and the earnings, place...

FPGAs are an attractive platform for applications with high computation demand and low energy consumption requirements. However, design effort for FPGA implementations remains high – often an order of magnitude larger than design effort using high level languages. Instead of this time-consuming process, high level synthesis (HLS) tools generate hardware implementations from algorithm descriptio...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the Iranian electric utilities during the period 1980-1993 on the basis of panel data. A translog cost function is used which accommodates firm - specific variability through a one - way error component model. The results show that the Iranian electricity supply industry experienced increasing returns to s...

Long-term forest productivity decline in boreal forests has been extensively studied in the last decades, yet its causes are still unclear. Soil conditions associated with soil organic matter accumulation are thought to be responsible for site productivity decline. The objectives of this study were to determine if paludification of boreal soils resulted in reduced forest productivity, and to id...