Bill Gropp
Effective use of extreme-scale systems
(bbch)Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Effective use of extreme-scale systems
(jq7)Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Optimizing a distributed-memory parallel code for constructing ultra-large phylogenetic trees on Blue Waters
(batn)Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
Graph500 Testing
(baoi)Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Designing scalable algorithms for constructing large phylogenetic trees (almost without alignments) on supercomputers
(bakt)Jun 2017 - May 2018
Performance Analysis of Large Scale Deep Learning Systems
(baie)Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Testing of Spack Management Tool
(bafy)Aug 2016 - Dec 2019
Designing and Building Applications for Extreme Scale Systems
(babq)Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Parallel I/O Performance
(jtd)Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Enhancing Scalability of Applications
(jte)Mar 2015 - Nov 2016
CS 598: Designing and Building Applications for Extreme Scale Systems
(jt1)Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
System Software for Scalable Applications
(jnl)Apr 2013 - Sep 2014
2019
William D. Gropp (2019): Using node and socket information to implement MPI Cartesian topologies, Parallel Computing, Elsevier B.V., Vol 85, pp98-108
Amanda Bienz, William D. Gropp, and Luke N. Olson (2019): Node Aware Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Academic Press, Vol 130, pp166-178
Erin K. Molloy and Tandy Warnow (2019): Statistically consistent divide-and-conquer pipelines for phylogeny estimation using NJMerge, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Springer Nature, Vol 14, Num 1, pp14
Erin K. Molloy and Tandy Warnow (2019): TreeMerge: a new method for improving the scalability of species tree estimation methods, Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, Vol 35, Num 14, ppi417–i426
Jon Calhoun, Franck Cappello, Luke N. Olson, Marc Snir, and William D. Gropp (2019): Exploring the Feasibility of Lossy Compression for PDE Simulations, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE Publications, Vol 33, Num 2, pp397-410
2018
William D. Gropp (2018): Using Node Information to Implement MPI Cartesian Topologies, ACM Press, Proceedings of the 25th European MPI Users' Group Meeting (EuroMPI '18), pp18:1-18:9, Barcelona, Spain
Amanda Bienz, William D. Gropp, and Luke N. Olson (2018): Improving Performance Models for Irregular Point-to-Point Communication, ACM Press, Proceedings of the 25th European MPI Users' Group Meeting (EuroMPI '18), pp7:1-7:8, Barcelona, Spain
2017
Jon Calhoun, Marc Snir, Luke N. Olson, and William D. Gropp (2017): Towards a More Complete Understanding of SDC Propagation, ACM Press, Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC '17), pp131, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
2016
William Gropp, Luke N. Olson, and Philipp Samfass (2016): Modeling MPI Communication Performance on SMP Nodes: Is it Time to Retire the Ping Pong Test?, ACM Press, Proceedings of the 23rd European MPI Users' Group Meeting (EuroMPI 2016), pp41-50, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
Paul R. Eller and William Gropp (2016): Scalable Non-Blocking Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, SC '16: Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, pp204-215
Amanda Bienz, Robert D. Falgout, William Gropp, Luke N. Olson, and Jacob B. Schroder (2016): Reducing Parallel Communication in Algebraic Multigrid Through Sparsification, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics, Vol 38, Num 5, ppS332-S357
D. Guo, W. Gropp, and L. N. Olson (2016): A Hybrid Format for Better Performance of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication on a GPU, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE Publications, Vol 30, Num 1, pp103-120
2015
J. Calhoun, L. Olson, M. Snir, and W. D. Gropp (2015): Towards a More Fault Resilient Multigrid Solver, Society for Computer Simulation International, HPC '15: Proceedings of the Symposium on High Performance Computing, pp1-8, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.
Vivek Kale (2015): Low-Overhead Scheduling for Improving Performance of Scientific Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship, Vol Doctoral dissertation
2014
Dahai Guo and William Gropp (2014): Applications of the Streamed Storage Format for Sparse Matrix Operations, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE Publications, Vol 28, Num 1, pp3-12
Franck Cappello, Geist Al, William Gropp, Sanjay Kale, Bill Kramer, and Marc Snir (2014): Toward Exascale Resilience: 2014 Update, Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations, FSAEIHE South Ural State University (National Research University), Vol 1, Num 1, pp5-28
2013
Brett Bode, Michelle Butler, Thom Dunning, Torsten Hoefler, William Kramer, William Gropp, and Wen-mei Hwu (2013): The Blue Waters Super-System for Super-Science, Taylor & Francis, Contemporary high performance computing : from petascale toward exascale, Vol 1, pp339-366
Antonio J. Peña, Ralf G. Correa Carvalho, James Dinan, Pavan Balaji, Rajeev Thakur, and William Gropp (2013): Analysis of Topology-Dependent MPI Performance on Gemini Networks, Association for Computing Machinery, Proceedings of the 20th European MPI Users' Group Meeting (EuroMPI '13), pp61-66, Madrid, Spain
2012
Dahai Guo and William Gropp (2012): Adaptive Thread Distributions for SpMV on a GPU, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, XSEDE '12: Proceedings of the Extreme Scaling Workshop, pp2:1-2:5, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
2011
Jack Dongarra, Pete Beckman, Terry Moore, Patrick Aerts, Giovanni Aloisio, Jean-Claude Andre, David Barkai, Jean-Yves Berthou, Taisuke Boku, Bertrand Braunschweig, Franck Cappello, Barbara Chapman, Xuebin Chi, Alok Choudhary, Sudip Dosanjh, Thom Dunning, Sandro Fiore, Al Geist, Bill Gropp, Robert Harrison, Mark Hereld, Michael Heroux, Adolfy Hoisie, Koh Hotta, Zhong Jin, Yutaka Ishikawa, Fred Johnson, Sanjay Kale, Richard Kenway, David Keyes, Bill Kramer, Jesus Labarta, Alain Lichnewsky, Thomas Lippert, Bob Lucas, Barney Maccabe, Satoshi Matsuoka, Paul Messina, Peter Michielse, Bernd Mohr, Matthias S. Mueller, Wolfgang E. Nagel, Hiroshi Nakashima, Michael E Papka, Dan Reed, Mitsuhisa Sato, Ed Seidel, John Shalf, David Skinner, Marc Snir, Thomas Sterling, Rick Stevens, Fred Streitz, Bob Sugar, Shinji Sumimoto, William Tang, John Taylor, Rajeev Thakur, Anne Trefethen, Mateo Valero, Aad van der Steen, Jeffrey Vetter, Peg Williams, Robert Wisniewski, and Kathy Yelick (2011): The International Exascale Software Project Roadmap, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE Publications, Vol 25, Num 1, pp3-60
D. Guo and W. Gropp (2011): Optimizing Sparse Data Structures for Matrix-Vector Multiply, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE Publications, Vol 25, Num 1, pp115-131
2009
Franck Cappello, Al Geist, Bill Gropp, Laxmikant Kale, Bill Kramer, and Marc Snir (2009): Toward Exascale Resilience, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, SAGE Publications, Vol 23, Num 4, pp374-388
2019
William Gropp, Erin Molloy, Tandy Warnow (2019): A Parallel Framework for Scaling Phylogeny Estimation Methods to Large Genomic Data Sets, 2019 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp216-217
William Gropp, Paul Eller, Ed Karrels (2019): Algorithms for Extreme-Scale Sytems, 2019 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp218-219
Tandy Warnow, William Gropp, Erin Molloy, Pranjal Vachaspati (2019): Algorithms for Large-Scale Evolutionary Tree Construction: Improving Scalability and Accuracy through Divide-and-Conquer, 2019 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp232-233
2018
Roy H Campbell, Sayed Hadi Hashemi, William Gropp (2018): Accelerating Deep Neural Network Training with Model-Aware Network Scheduling, 2018 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp180-181
William Gropp, Erin Molloy, Tandy Warnow (2018): Constructing Large Evolutionary Trees on Supercomputers, 2018 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp226-227
William Gropp, Luke Olson, Amanda Bienz, Paul Eller, Ed Karrels (2018): Algorithms for Extreme Scale Systems, 2018 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp184-185
2017
Bill Gropp (2017): Algorithms for extreme-scale systems, 2017 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp172-173
2016
William Gropp (2016): Algorithms for extreme-scale systems, 2016 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp160-161
2015
William Gropp (2015): Algorithms for extreme-scale systems, 2015 Blue Waters Annual Report, pp124
William Gropp: Managing Code Transformations for Better Performance Portability
Workshop on Clusters, Clouds, and Data for Scientific Computing (CCDSC 2018); Lyon, France, Sep 5, 2018
William Gropp: Thinking about Parallelism and Programming
4th European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR 2018); Turin, Italy, Aug 27, 2018
William Gropp: Parallel Programming is the Easy Part: The Real Challenges in Developing HPC Applications
ISC High Performance 2018; Frankfurt, Germany, Jun 7, 2018
Paul R. Eller: Non-Blocking Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Extreme-Scale Computing
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '15); Austin, Texas, U.S.A., Nov 17, 2015
Amanda Bienz, Jon Calhoun, Luke Olson, Marc Snir, and William D. Gropp: Analyzing the Performance of a Sparse Matrix Vector Multiply for Extreme Scale Computers
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC '15); Austin, Texas, U.S.A., Nov 17, 2015
William Gropp: Teaching for the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering
Blue Waters Symposium 2015, May 12, 2015
Blue Waters Symposium 2015, May 12, 2015
Paul Eller: Exploiting Nonblocking Collective Operations in Conjugate Gradient
17th Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods; Copper Mountain, Colorado, U.S.A., Mar 26, 2015
UIUC’s Supercomputer Has a Projected $1B Impact On Illinois’ Economy
May 12, 2017
Nestled on the outskirts of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus — at the corner of Oak Street and St. Mary’s Road — is Blue Waters, a supercomputer that was first instituted as a result of a 2007 National Science Foundation grant and an initial $60 million investment from the State of Illinois. A report released this past week on the economic impact of this supercomputer — on the UIUC campus, its five surrounding counties, as well as nationwide spillover effects — puts a whole new meaning to the term “return on investment.”
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Blue Waters Illinois allocations awarded to 26 research teams
Mar 7, 2017
Twenty-six research teams at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been allocated computation time on the National Center for Supercomputing Application's (NCSA) sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer after applying in Fall 2016. These allocations range from 25,000 to 600,000 node-hours of compute time over a time span of either six months or one year. The research pursuits of these teams are incredibly diverse, ranging anywhere from physics to political science.
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Blue Waters project to offer online course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme-Scale
Oct 21, 2014
NCSA’s Blue Waters project will offer of an online graduate course on Designing and Building Applications for Extreme-Scale Systems in spring 2015 and is seeking university partners that are interested in offering the course for credit to their students. Many problems in the sciences require more computing power and I/O performance than is available on all but the largest machines. Using these systems effectively requires a quantitative approach to performance, applied from the selection of model and algorithm to the choice of programming languages and libraries. This course will introduce students to the features of extreme-scale systems and how to use performance modeling to design, implement, and tune large-scale applications in simulation and data-intensive science.
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12 Illinois faculty awarded prestigious Blue Waters Professorships
Feb 4, 2014
Twelve University of Illinois faculty members from a range of fields have been selected as Blue Waters Professors, an honor that comes with substantial computing and data resources on the Blue Waters supercomputer at the university’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
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- Algorithms for extreme scale systems (gropp-bwprof-CY16.pdf)
- Algorithms for extreme scale systems (2015) (gropp-bwprof-CY15.pdf)
- Algorithms for extreme scale systems (2014) (gropp-bwprof-CY14.pdf)
- Algorithms for extreme scale systems (2018) (gropp-bwprof-CY18.pdf)
- Final report on project JT! (60-Gropp-2015-advanced computing course.pdf)
- Performance Analysis of Large Scale Deep Learning Systems (Large Scale Deep Learning Systems-v2.pdf)
