Access control (LINE) created

Hello, my name is Ishii, and I started my first year as a master’s student in the spring.

I was interested in the LINE API, so I created an official LINE that can manage access control. It is designed to record entry and exit times and reflect them in a spreadsheet.
I made this line as a personal hobby, and I am very grateful that my lab is able to use it. I have a desire to create various things, so I will continue to enjoy creating something in the future.

Summary of Keynote and Invited Talks of Prof. Takizawa

Hi, I am Prof. Takizawa. I was invited to various venues as a speaker this academic year. This is clear evidence that our lab is very active and all the lab members have been working hard!

It is difficult to post every presentation to this web site, so I would like to list major presentations I did in the second half of this academic year.

  • 2021/11/26: The Current Situation and Future Outlook of Supercomputers (in Japanese) @ Microwave Workshop and Exhibition (MWE2021).
  • 2021/12/08: An Update on neoSYCL @ Khronos SYCL Webinar.
  • 2021/12/09: Operation and Future of Supercomputer AOBA (in Japanese) @ PC Cluster Consortium Symposium (PCCC21).
  • 2021/12/13: One-year experience of operating SX-Aurora TSUBASA and future outlook @ 32nd Workshop on Sustained Simulation Performance (WSSP32).
  • 2021/12/16: One-year operation of an SX-Aurora TSUBASA system, Supercomputer AOBA @ NEC Aurora Forum.
  • 2021/12/19: Fighting with the Complexity and Diversity of Future HPC Systems (Keynote) @ Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications, and Technologies (PDCAT 2021).
  • 2022/01/14: SYCL programming for collaboration of x86 and friends @ The Intel eXtreme Performance Users Group (IXPUG) Workshop.
  • 2022/03/29: A data-driven approach for making better use of compilers @ Conference on Advance Topics and Auto Tuning in High Performance Scientific Computing (ATAT2022).

There was a degree conferment ceremony

Hello!
My name is Daiki Nakai, and I will be an M1 student from April.
I submitted my graduation thesis on March 4. (I know this is quite a late report… )
There was a graduation ceremony on March 25, followed by a degree conferment ceremony in the laboratory.
Receiving the degree made me realize that I will be a graduate student from spring.

Li had a presentation at PDCAT’21

Hello there. This is Li Jiahao.

22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT) was held from Dec. 17th to 19th. PDCAT is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of parallel and distributed computing.

I made a presentation about the performance of neoSYCL.

Jin, Mike had a presentation at HPC Asia 2022

Hi, this is M2 student Jin Yifan.

The 5th International Conference on High-Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC Asia 2022) was held from January 12th to 14th.

HPC Asia is an international conference series in the Asia Pacific region on HPC technologies, fostering the exchange of ideas, research results, and case studies related to all issues of high-performance computing. The 5th edition, HPC Asia 2022 was held with the motto “Stepping forward to the Post Moore Era together.”

You can find the program here.

In our laboratory, Jin had a poster presentation at poster session #122: Memory-aware Task Mapping for Heterogeneous Multi-Core Systems.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the conference was held in a “fully online” format. The organizers created a Gather space for the poster session. In this special era, it is also interesting to participate in the conference in this form.

 


Hi, my name is Mike Zielewski. I am a doctoral student in Takizawa laboratory and my studies focus on quantum computing.

Last month I was fortunate enough to be able to present my work at the International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPC Asia 2022).

One thing that I thought was challenging when preparing my presentation was that much of my audience would be unfamiliar with not only the background of my work but also quantum annealing in general. This is because quantum annealing has yet to be widely adopted for practical applications. With this in mind, I realized that I would have to take special care in making the presentation accessible to people of various backgrounds.

I hope that some of the attendees found my presentation interesting enough that they will think about using quantum annealing for their own applications.

Currently, some of the most effective ways of using quantum annealing actually combine it with traditional HPC practices. I’m looking forward to seeing more mature HPC technologies be integrated with quantum annealing to produce results that neither could achieve alone.

 

Minglu had a presentation at PAAP’21

Hello there. This is Minglu.

12th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP’21) was held from Dec. 10th to 12th.
PAAP is an international conference for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present their research results and development activities in all aspects of parallel architectures, algorithms and programming techniques.
You can find the details here. Program

In our lab., Minglu had a presentation at the track05: Big Data Processing and Deep Learning.

Assistant Professor Keichi Takahashi has joined Takizawa lab

Hi, I’m Keichi Takahashi. I’m excited to announce that I have joined Takizawa lab this December as an assistant professor.

Prior to joining Takizawa laboratory, I was an assistant professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), and conducted research on accelerating inter-node communication and storage I/O in large-scale HPC systems. Please visit my website to check out my latest list of publications and software projects.

I am looking forward to working with the students, faculty, and staff at Takizawa lab in the future!

About attending SC21

The International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC21) was held from Nov. 14th to 19th this year.

Similar to last year, Tohoku University had a booth page including posters and videos about our research.

The detailed booth information is shown here.

Although there is no presentation made by lab members this year, students in our lab still actively attended the conference and shared interesting topics or presentations in the lab seminar.

Interesting Topics
A high-performance tensor-based simulator for random quantum circuits [1]
An extension of the Message Passing Interface to enable high-performance implementations of distributed quantum algorithms [2]

A unified programming model for constraint satisfaction problems that can be mapped to both quantum circuit and annealing devices through QUBOs [3]

A scalable performance prediction toolkit for GPUs [4]
In-depth analyses of unified virtual memory system for GPU accelerated computing [5]

Hope that in the future, there will be opportunities for our lab members to present research at such top-level conferences.

Reference

  1. Liu, Yong, et al. “Closing the” quantum supremacy” gap: achieving real-time simulation of a random quantum circuit using a new Sunway supercomputer.” Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. 2021.
  2. Häner, Thomas, et al. “Distributed Quantum Computing with QMPI.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.01109 (2021).
  3. Wilson, Ellis, Frank Mueller, and Scott Pakin. “Mapping Constraint Problems onto Quantum Gate and Annealing Devices.”
  4. Arafa, Yehia, et al. “Hybrid, scalable, trace-driven performance modeling of GPGPUs.” Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. 2021.
  5. Allen, Tyler, and Rong Ge. “In-depth analyses of unified virtual memory system for GPU accelerated computing.” Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. 2021.

The access control system is complete!

I am Shuhei Sugawara, a first year Takizawa trainee.
In light of the recent situation, we have created a system to record the arrival and departure status of students in the laboratory, and have recently started operation.
Previously, we had to write down the entry and exit times of each person on a spreadsheet, but now we can use the touch keys in the lab to automatically fill in the information, which I think is much easier and less time-consuming.
It was more difficult than I expected due to various problems and improvements before the system was up and running, but it is now working successfully thanks to the cooperation of the lab members. Thank you very much!
For now, only lab members can use it, but we are planning to improve it so that guests can also use it, so please try it out when you visit our lab!

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The book written by Prof. Takizawa (co-author), will be released soon!

The book “Software Auto-Tuning: Code Optimization Techniques for Scientific and Technical Computing” authored by Prof. Hiroyuki Takizawa (co-author) will be released soon! The book introduces the principles and usage of each tool for software auto-tuning. We recommend this for your research or lectures to improve your work!
https://www.morikita.co.jp/index.php/books/mid/087221