Many-core Computing Related Research Projects

ARTEMIS

ARTEMIS stands for Advanced Radio Transient Event Monitor and Identification System. It is a project that is based on a versatile CPU-GPU telescope backend for processing of time-series data in radio astronomy.

ASEArch

Algorithms and Software for Emerging Architectures (ASEArch) is a new EPSRC-funded Collaborative Computational Project (CCP). Its aim is to investigate the use of novel architectures such as NVIDIA GPUs, and Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) acclerators, and assist other application CCPs in adopting this technology, where appropriate.

Flamingo

Flamingo is a general-purpose auto-tuning framework for software optimisation. The software automates the process of finding optimal settings for program parameters, even reducing the number of tests needed. Flamingo began as a third year undergraduate project, and was then further developed with funding from an EPSRC vacation bursary.

General Many-core Research & Information

There is a lot of other research within the university on the use of GPUs and other accelerator technologies. Information on this research, as well as more general information on the topic, is available under this heading.

Motivate

MOTIVATE is a pathfinder project that aims to investigate the latest many-core technologies with the aim of delivering energy and cost efficiency in the area of radio astronomy HPC. MOTIVATE stands for Many-cOre Technology Investigating Value, Application, deploymenT and Efficiency.

OP2

The OP2 project is developing an open-source framework for the execution of unstructured grid applications on clusters of GPUs or multi-core CPUs. Although OP2 is designed to look like a conventional library, the implementation uses source-source translation to generate the appropriate back-end code for the different target platforms. This project is part of a larger EPSRC-funded project on Multi-layered Abstractions for PDE's which is a collaboration with Imperial College.