15–18 Apr 2024
CERN
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The perfectly parallel program: Architectures for hardware acceleration and heterogeneous computing (1/2)

16 Apr 2024, 09:00
1h
31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre

CERN

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Lecture

Speaker

Zenny Wettersten (CERN)

Description

  • Technical details of processing units in the context of hardware acceleration
  • Flynn's taxonomy of computer architectures and its relation to types of software parallelism
  • Data-level parallelism as a solution to current bottlenecks in scientific computing
  • Evaluating the possible speedup hardware can provide
  • How physical limitations in instruction/memory access affect your code

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