Performance optimization

Our Masked Guest Speakers Series

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Every week, we have a masked guest speaker opening our HiCMA weekly meeting by giving a remote talk on broad topics related to numerical linear algebra, high performance computing, programming models and performance optimizations. Our motto is fun and science!

Designing Tomorrow's Algorithms on Today's Architectures: a Case Study with Stencil Computations Using AMD 3D V-Cache™ Technology

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Regular stencil computations constitute the main core kernel in many temporally explicit approaches for structured grid finite-difference, finite-volume, and finite-element discretizations of partial differential equation conservation laws. For various blocking dimensions, the Spatial Blocking (SB) approach enables data reuse within multiple cache levels. However, the straightforward generalization of SB to manycore architectures, with each core owning an exclusive share of cache may leave performance on the table. The next two figures show the typical 25-point 3D star stencil used in seismic

Rabab Alomairy

Rabab Alomairy is a PhD candidate in Computer Science. She is studying under supervision of Professor David E. Keyes and Senior research scientist Hatem Ltaief. Research Interest Rabab's research interests focus on Task-Based Numerical Libraries and Applications, Performance Optimizations, AI on Large Scale and Dense Linear Algebra. Why KAUST? I choose KAUST because KAUST is the greenland that is fertile for growing any innovative idea. Why did you choose high performance computing? I choose high performance computing field because it is the key for many disciplines. Many of grand challenges

Hatem Ltaief

Dr. Hatem Ltaief is a Principal Research Scientist at KAUST. He works on mixed-precision algorithms and performance optimizations to help HPC scientific applications address the exascale challenges. His innovations have been recognized with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize (shared) for Climate Modeling in 2024.