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Publicações por André Martins Pereira

2014

Removing Inefficiencies from Scientific Code: The Study of the Higgs Boson Couplings to Top Quarks

Autores
Pereira, A; Onofre, A; Proenca, A;

Publicação
COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONS - ICCSA 2014, PT IV

Abstract
This paper presents a set of methods and techniques to remove inefficiencies in a data analysis application used in searches by the ATLAS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Profiling scientific code helped to pinpoint design and runtime inefficiencies, the former due to coding and data structure design. The data analysis code used by groups doing searches in the ATLAS Experiment contributed to clearly identify some of these inefficiencies and to give suggestions on how to prevent and overcome those common situations in scientific code to improve the efficient use of available computational resources in a parallel homogeneous platform.

2015

HEP-Frame: A Software Engineered Framework to Aid the Development and Efficient Multicore Execution of Scientific Code

Autores
Pereira, A; Onofre, A; Proenca, A;

Publicação
2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (CSCI)

Abstract
This communication presents an evolutionary software prototype of a user-centered Highly Efficient Pipelined Framework, HEP-Frame, to aid the development of sustainable parallel scientific code with a flexible pipeline structure. HEP-Frame is the result of a tight collaboration between computational scientists and software engineers: it aims to improve scientists coding productivity, ensuring an efficient parallel execution on a wide set of multicore systems, with both HPC and HTC techniques. Current prototype complies with the requirements of an actual scientific code, includes desirable sustainability features and supports at compile time additional plugin interfaces for other scientific fields. The porting and development productivity was assessed and preliminary efficiency results are promising.

2024

A review on the decarbonization of high-performance computing centers

Autores
Silva, CA; Vilaça, R; Pereira, A; Bessa, RJ;

Publicação
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Abstract
High-performance computing relies on performance-oriented infrastructures with access to powerful computing resources to complete tasks that contribute to solve complex problems in society. The intensive use of resources and the increase in service demand due to emerging fields of science, combined with the exascale paradigm, climate change concerns, and rising energy costs, ultimately means that the decarbonization of these centers is key to improve their environmental and financial performance. Therefore, a review on the main opportunities and challenges for the decarbonization of high-performance computing centers is essential to help decision-makers, operators and users contribute to a more sustainable computing ecosystem. It was found that state-of-the-art supercomputers are growing in computing power, but are combining different measures to meet sustainability concerns, namely going beyond energy efficiency measures and evolving simultaneously in terms of energy and information technology infrastructure. It was also shown that policy and multiple entities are now targeting specifically HPC, and that identifying synergies with the energy sector can reveal new revenue streams, but also enable a smoother integration of these centers in energy systems. Computing-intensive users can continue to pursue their scientific research, but participating more actively in the decarbonization process, in cooperation with computing service providers. Overall, many opportunities, but also challenges, were identified, to decrease carbon emissions in a sector mostly concerned with improving hardware performance.

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