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    • A generic performance analysis technique applied to different CFD methods for HPC 

      Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Banchelli Gracia, Fabio; Peiró Conde, Kilian; Ramírez Gargallo, Guillem; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Hassan Saïdi, Ismaïl Ben; Tenaud, Christian; Spisso, Ivan; Mantovani, Filippo (Taylor & Francis, 2020-07-16)
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      For complex engineering and scientific applications, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations require a huge amount of computational power. As such, it is of paramount importance to carefully assess the performance ...
    • Accelerating FFT using NEC SX-Aurora vector engine 

      Vizcaino Serrano, Pablo; Mantovani, Filippo; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (Springer, 2021)
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      Novel architectures leveraging long and variable vector lengths like the NEC SX-Aurora or the vector extension of RISCV are appearing as promising solutions on the supercomputing market. These architectures often require ...
    • Acceleration with long vector architectures: Implementation and evaluation of the FFT kernel on NEC SX-Aurora and RISC-V vector extension 

      Vizcaino Serrano, Pablo; Mantovani, Filippo; Ferrer Ibañez, Roger; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José (Wiley (John Wiley & Sons), 2022-11-02)
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      Novel architectures leveraging long and variable vector lengths like the NEC SX-Aurora or the vector extension of RISCV are appearing as promising solutions on the supercomputing market. These architectures often require ...
    • Advanced Performance Analysis of HPC Workloads on Cavium ThunderX 

      Calore, Enrico; Mantovani, Filippo; Ruiz, Daniel (IEEE, 2018)
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      The interest towards Arm based platforms as HPC solutions increased significantly during the last 5 years. In this paper we show that, in contrast to the early days of pioneer tests, several application performance analysis ...
    • Asymmetric HMMs for online ball-bearing health assessments 

      Puerto Santana, Carlos; Bielza Lozoya, Concha; Díaz Rozo, Javier; Ramírez Gargallo, Guillem; Mantovani, Filippo; Virumbrales, Gaizka; Labarta Mancho, Jesús José; Larrañaga Mugica, Pedro (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022-10-15)
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      The degradation of critical components inside large industrial assets, such as ball-bearings, has a negative impact on production facilities, reducing the availability of assets due to an unexpectedly high failure rate. ...
    • Benchmarking of state-of-the-art HPC clusters with a production CFD code 

      Banchelli Gracia, Fabio; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Houzeaux, Guillaume; Mantovani, Filippo (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020)
      Conference report
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      Computing technologies populating high-performance computing (HPC) clusters are getting more and more diverse, offering a wide range of architectural features. As a consequence, efficient programming of such platforms ...
    • Cluster of emerging technology: evaluation of a production HPC system based on A64FX 

      Banchelli Gracia, Fabio; Peiró Conde, Kilian; Ramírez Gargallo, Guillem; Vinyals Ylla-Català, Joan; Vicente Dorca, David; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Mantovani, Filippo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)
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      Clusters of emerging technologies are appearing with more and more frequency in HPC. After years of skepticism, data-centers are adopting them as production systems thanks to several geopolitical and technological factors. ...
    • Computational Fluid and Particle Dynamics Simulations for Respiratory System: Runtime Optimization on an Arm Cluster 

      Garcia-Gasulla, Marta; Josep-Fabrego, Marc; Eguzkitza, Beatriz; Mantovani, Filippo (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018-08-13)
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      Computational fluid and particle dynamics simulations (CFPD) are of paramount importance for studying and improving drug effectiveness. Computational requirements of CFPD codes involves high-performance computing (HPC) ...
    • Containers in HPC: a scalability and portability study in production biological simulations 

      Rudyy, Oleksandr; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Mantovani, Filippo; Santiago, Alfonso; Sirvent Pardell, Raül; Vázquez, Mariano (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2019-05-07)
      Conference report
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    • CoreNEURON: Performance and Energy Efficiency Evaluation on Intel and Arm CPUs 

      Criado, Joel; Garcia Gasulla, Marta; Kumbhar, Pramod; Awile, Omar; Magkanaris, Ioannis; Mantovani, Filippo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)
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      The simulation of detailed neuronal circuits is based on computationally expensive software simulations and requires access to a large computing cluster. The appearance of new Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) in most ...
    • Design Space Exploration of Next-Generation HPC Machines 

      Gómez, Constantino; Martínez, Francesc; Armejach, Adrià; Moretó, Miquel; Mantovani, Filippo; Casas, Marc (2019)
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      The landscape of High Performance Computing (HPC) system architectures keeps expanding with new technologies and increased complexity. With the goal of improving the efficiency of next-generation large HPC systems, ...
    • Design space exploration of next-generation HPC machines 

      Gómez Crespo, Constantino; Martínez Palau, Francesc; Armejach Sanosa, Adrià; Moreto Planas, Miquel; Mantovani, Filippo; Casas Guix, Marc (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
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      The landscape of High Performance Computing (HPC) system architectures keeps expanding with new technologies and increased complexity. With the goal of improving the efficiency of next-generation large HPC systems, designers ...
    • Efficient CFD code implementation for the ARM-based Mont-Blanc architecture 

      Oyarzun Altamirano, Guillermo; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Gorobets, Andrei; Mantovani, Filippo; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Elsevier, 2017-09-20)
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      Since 2011, the European project Mont-Blanc has been focused on enabling ARM-based technology for HPC, developing both hardware platforms and system software. The latest Mont-Blanc prototypes use system-on-chip (SoC) devices ...
    • Efficient CFD code implementation for the ARM-based Mont-Blanc architecture 

      Oyarzun Altamirano, Guillermo; Borrell Pol, Ricard; Gorobets, Andrei; Mantovani, Filippo; Oliva Llena, Asensio (Elsevier, 2018-02)
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      Since 2011, the European project Mont-Blanc has been focused on enabling ARM-based technology for HPC, developing both hardware platforms and system software. The latest Mont-Blanc prototypes use system-on-chip (SoC) devices ...
    • Efficiently running SpMV on long vector architectures 

      Gómez Crespo, Constantino; Mantovani, Filippo; Focht, Erich; Casas Guix, Marc (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021)
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      Sparse Matrix-Vector multiplication (SpMV) is an essential kernel for parallel numerical applications. SpMV displays sparse and irregular data accesses, which complicate its vectorization. Such difficulties make SpMV to ...
    • Energy Analysis of a 4D Variational Data Assimilation Algorithm and Evaluation on ARM-Based HPC Systems 

      Arcucci, Rossella; Basciano, Davide; Cilardo, Alessandro; D'Amore, Luisa; Mantovani, Filippo (Springer, 2018-03-23)
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      Driven by the emerging requirements of High Performance Computing (HPC) architectures, the main focus of this work is the interplay of computational and energetic aspects of a Four Dimensional Variational (4DVAR) Data ...
    • Exploration of architectural parameters for future HPC systems 

      Gómez, Constantino; Martínez, Francesc; Armejach Sanosa, Adrià; Casas, Marc; Mantovani, Filippo; Moreto Planas, Miquel (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2019-05-07)
      Conference report
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    • Filling the gap between education and industry: evidence-based methods for introducing undergraduate students to HPC 

      Mantovani, Filippo; Banchelli, Fabio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
      Conference lecture
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      Educational institutions provide in most cases basic theoretical background covering several computational science topics, however High Performance Computing (HPC) and Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) markets require ...
    • Implementation of the K-Means Algorithm on Heterogeneous Devices: A Use Case Based on an Industrial Dataset 

      Xu, Ying hao; Vidal, Miquel; Arejita, Beñat; Diaz, Javier; Alvarez, Carlos; Jiménez González, Daniel; Martorell Bofill, Xavier; Mantovani, Filippo (IOS Press, 2018)
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      This paper presents and analyzes a heterogeneous implementation of an industrial use case based on K-means that targets symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), GPUs and FPGAs. We present how the application can be optimized from ...
    • Is Arm software ecosystem ready for HPC? 

      Banchelli Gracia, Fabio F.; Ruiz, Daniel; Hao Xu Lin, Ying; Mantovani, Filippo (2017-11-14)
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      In recent years, the HPC community has increasingly grown its interest towards the Arm architecture with research projects targeting primarily the installation of Arm-based clusters. State of the art research project ...