{"626750":{"#nid":"626750","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Researchers Set to Receive Two Innovation Awards at HPEC\u201919","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDefined by the practice of aggregating power in an effort to achieve greater performance, high-performance computing (HPC) is increasingly becoming more diverse. Now, this market,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.grandviewresearch.com\/press-release\/global-high-performance-computing-hpc-market\u0022\u003Ewhich is expected to reach $59.65 billion by 2025\u003C\/a\u003E, is setting its sights on new applications including the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) for deep learning, cloud computing, and more.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThese applications will ultimately speed processing rates and cut computational costs for embedded computing systems used in transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and a host of other industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBut, there are specific requirements and unique challenges \u0026ndash; known and unknown \u0026ndash; to deploying HPC applications outside of a data center. To address these challenges and advance this growing research area, School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) HPC researchers are bringing their expertise to this week\u0026rsquo;s 2019\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ieee-hpec.org\/\u0022\u003EIEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(HPEC).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHPEC is one of the leading conferences of its kind. It brings HPC and embedded systems researchers together to identify obstacles and develop effective solutions for delivering HPC capabilities to edge computing applications, augment big data with GPUs, and more.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from CSE are set to present several papers at this year\u0026rsquo;s HPEC, which runs from\u0026nbsp;Sept. 24 to 26 in Waltham, Massachusetts. Of these, two papers were submitted to the HPEC 2019\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/graphchallenge.mit.edu\/\u0022\u003EGraphChallenge\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and are set to receive Innovation Awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The GraphChallenge creates an annual benchmark that drives community development of new solutions for analyzing graphs and sparse data from social media, sensor feeds, and scientific data to discover relationships between events,\u0026rdquo; said CSE Ph.D. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ayasar3\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbdurrahman Yasar\u003C\/strong\u003E,\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;an investigator on two of the four Innovation Award winning papers, and a 2018 GraphChallenge champion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the two CSE winning papers,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ELinear Algebra-Based Triangle Counting via Fine-Grained Tasking on Heterogeneous Environments,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Edescribes an update to the linear-algebraic formulation of the classic triangle-counting problem.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Triangle counting is a representative graph analysis algorithm with several applications and is also one of the three benchmarks used in the IEEE HPEC GraphChallenge,\u0026rdquo; said Yasar.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In this work we propose a novel multi-core multi-GPU triangle counting algorithm. Our new approach does not require architecture specific changes on code which is crucial for portability on heterogenous environments and the way we distribute the tasks between GPUs and CPUs is highly appreciated.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile triangle counting remains an important benchmark in the GraphChallenge, several other research areas are also prevalent in this year\u0026rsquo;s CSE HPEC proceedings.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESee the list below to view all Georgia Tech papers being presented at this year\u0026rsquo;s HPEC conference:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EConcurrent Katz Centrality\u0026nbsp;for Streaming Graphs\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E-\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EChunxing Yin, Jason Riedy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESkip the Intersection: Quickly Counting Common Neighbors on Shared-Memory Systems\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EXiaojing An, Kasimir Gabert, James Fox, Oded Green,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EDavid A. Bader\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EImproving Scheduling for Irregular Applications with Logarithmic Radix Binning\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJames Fox, Alok Tripathy, Oded Green\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/graphchallenge.mit.edu\/champions\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGraph Challenge Champions\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003ELinear Algebra-Based Triangle Counting via Fine-Grained Tasking on Heterogeneous Environments\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E- Abdurrahman Yasar,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ESivasankaran Rajamanickam, Jonathan Berry, Michael Wolf,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJeff Young, \u0026Uuml;mit V. \u0026Ccedil;ataly\u0026uuml;rek\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EScalable Triangle Counting on Distributed-Memory Systems\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ESeher Acer,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAbdurrahman Yasar,\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ESivasankaran Rajamanickam, Michael Wolf,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026Uuml;mit V. \u0026Ccedil;ataly\u0026uuml;rek\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/news\/612011\/school-cse-speeds-graph-applications-and-presents-graphchallenge-winning-paper-hpec-2018\u0022\u003E[Related News: School of CSE Speeds up Graph Applications and Presents GraphChallenge Winning Paper at HPEC 2018]\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CSE leads this year\u0027s presence at HPEC 2019 and Ph.D student Abdurrahman Yasar is set to receive two innovation awards for GraphChallenge submissions."}],"uid":"34540","created_gmt":"2019-09-25 18:55:23","changed_gmt":"2019-09-25 18:55:23","author":"Kristen Perez","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626667":{"id":"626667","type":"image","title":"HPEC 2019 Logo","body":null,"created":"1569340934","gmt_created":"2019-09-24 16:02:14","changed":"1569340934","gmt_changed":"2019-09-24 16:02:14","alt":"IEEE HPEC logo with a computer chip illustration on a peach background","file":{"fid":"238599","name":"hpec.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hpec.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hpec.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":9830,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hpec.jpg?itok=I_I0Hk_K"}}},"media_ids":["626667"],"groups":[{"id":"624060","name":"Center for High Performance Computing (CHiPC)"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4305","name":"cse"},{"id":"181217","name":"cse-hpc"},{"id":"702","name":"hpc"},{"id":"3427","name":"High performance computing"},{"id":"182468","name":"HPEC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKristen Perez\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["kristen.perez@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}