Implementation of Multiple-Precision Floating-Point Arithmetic on Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors

Author(s):  
Daisuke Takahashi
Author(s):  
Jack Dongarra ◽  
Laura Grigori ◽  
Nicholas J. Higham

A number of features of today’s high-performance computers make it challenging to exploit these machines fully for computational science. These include increasing core counts but stagnant clock frequencies; the high cost of data movement; use of accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, coprocessors), making architectures increasingly heterogeneous; and multi- ple precisions of floating-point arithmetic, including half-precision. Moreover, as well as maximizing speed and accuracy, minimizing energy consumption is an important criterion. New generations of algorithms are needed to tackle these challenges. We discuss some approaches that we can take to develop numerical algorithms for high-performance computational science, with a view to exploiting the next generation of supercomputers. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Numerical algorithms for high-performance computational science’.


2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 02009
Author(s):  
Carleton DeTar ◽  
Steven Gottlieb ◽  
Ruizi Li ◽  
Doug Toussaint

With recent developments in parallel supercomputing architecture, many core, multi-core, and GPU processors are now commonplace, resulting in more levels of parallelism, memory hierarchy, and programming complexity. It has been necessary to adapt the MILC code to these new processors starting with NVIDIA GPUs, and more recently, the Intel Xeon Phi processors. We report on our efforts to port and optimize our code for the Intel Knights Landing architecture. We consider performance of the MILC code with MPI and OpenMP, and optimizations with QOPQDP and QPhiX. For the latter approach, we concentrate on the staggered conjugate gradient and gauge force. We also consider performance on recent NVIDIA GPUs using the QUDA library.


2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Gianmarco Cherchi ◽  
Marco Livesu ◽  
Riccardo Scateni ◽  
Marco Attene

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