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20162023
most citedMachine learning on Crays to optimise petrophysical workflows in oil and gas exploration

22 citations · 121 across the 39 of their papers we have counts for

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40 papers

cs.DC2023

Fortran High-Level Synthesis: Reducing the barriers to accelerating HPC codes on FPGAs

Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal, Nick Brown, Tim Dykes +2

In recent years the use of FPGAs to accelerate scientific applications has grown, with numerous applications demonstrating the benefit of FPGAs for high performance workloads. Howe…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Experiences of running an HPC RISC-V testbed

Nick Brown, Maurice Jamieson, Joseph K. L. Lee

Funded by the UK ExCALIBUR H\&ES exascale programme, in early 2022 a RISC-V testbed for HPC was stood up to provide free access for scientific software developers to experiment wit…

cs.DC2023

Backporting RISC-V Vector assembly

Joseph K. L. Lee, Maurice Jamieson, Nick Brown

Leveraging vectorisation, the ability for a CPU to apply operations to multiple elements of data concurrently, is critical for high performance workloads. However, at the time of w…

cs.DC2023★ 2 cited

Test-driving RISC-V Vector hardware for HPC

Joseph K. L. Lee, Maurice Jamieson, Nick Brown +1

Whilst the RISC-V Vector extension (RVV) has been ratified, at the time of writing both hardware implementations and open source software support are still limited for vectorisatio…

cs.DC2023

Morpheus unleashed: Fast cross-platform SpMV on emerging architectures

Christodoulos Stylianou, Mark Klaisoongnoen, Ricardo Jesus +2

Sparse matrices and linear algebra are at the heart of scientific simulations. Over the years, more than 70 sparse matrix storage formats have been developed, targeting a wide rang…

cs.DC2023

Task-based preemptive scheduling on FPGAs leveraging partial reconfiguration

Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal, Nick Brown, Yuri Torres +1

FPGAs are an attractive type of accelerator for all-purpose HPC computing systems due to the possibility of deploying tailored hardware on demand. However, the common tools for pro…