HPC

LIKWID 4.3.3 is a bugfix release. It might be interesting due to Intel Cascade Lake X support and some fixes for the perf_event backend. The main changes: Fixes for likwid-mpirun Fixes for events on Intel Skylake SP and Intel Broadwell Support for Intel Cascade Lake X (only new event l... Continue

Our PhD student Christie Louis Alappat just struck 1st place in the ACM Student Research Competition at SC18. His work revolved around the "Recursive Algebraic Coloring Engine," which is a new method and library for hardware-efficient graph coloring. This means that he will advance to the grand fina... Continue

This year at SC18 in Dallas, TX, members of our group will be part of numerous contributions: Christie Louis Alappat will present a poster in the "ACM Student Research Competition," titled "Recursive Algebraic Coloring Engine." Julian Hammer will present a poster in the "ACM Student Research... Continue

The eighth HPC-Status-Konferenz of Gauß-Allianz will take place at RRZE in Erlangen on October 8 and 9, 2018. The annual HPC-Status-Konferenz offers scientists and practitioners the opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange in the field of recent research and all questions regarding High Perform... Continue

Our popular "Node-Level Performance Engineering" full-day tutorial has been accepted again (now the seventh time in a row!) for presentation at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. We teach the basics of node-level computer architecture... Continue

The Gauss Award is sponsored by the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is a collaboration of the German national supercomputing centers at Garching, Jülich and Stuttgart. The winner receives a cash prize of 3,000 €, courtesy of the Gauss Center, which is traditionally presented during the ... Continue

Our popular two-day tutorial about Node-Level Performance Engineering will be featured again at the Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) on June 14-15, 2018. The course is part of the official PATC (PRACE Advanced Training Center) curriculum. A detailed program and a registration link ... Continue

LIKWID 4.3.2 has just been released. This is an important maintenance release if you need support for the latest architectures: Support for Intel Knights Mill (core, RAPL, Uncore) AMD Zen: Use RETIRED_INSTRUCTIONS instead of fixed-purpose counter for metric calculation Intel Skylake X: So... Continue

The HPC group members Jan Eitzinger and Markus Wittmann are giving lectures within the LRZ PRACE Course: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing. In this add-on course to the parallel programming course special topics are treated in more depth, in particular performance analysis, I/O and PG... Continue

We are proud to announce that Moritz Kreutzer, who recently defended his PhD thesis titled "Performance Engineering for Exascale-Enabled Sparse Linear Algebra Building Blocks," was awarded the 2017 SPPEXA Best PhD Award. Congratulations! Continue