The availability and generation of digitized newspaper collections have provided researchers in several domains with a powerful tool to advance their research. More specifically, digitized historical newspapers give u...
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In recent years, scientific workflows have become increasingly popular. However, their tasks are often seen as black boxes, making it difficult to optimize them or identify bottlenecks due to the complex relationships...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798400710735
In recent years, scientific workflows have become increasingly popular. However, their tasks are often seen as black boxes, making it difficult to optimize them or identify bottlenecks due to the complex relationships between tasks. Several factors impact task progress, including input data availability, computing power, data transfer speed and network connectivity. During task execution, resource requirements may change significantly. We propose a new method to model task requirements over their lifetime. Using these models, we predict resource consumption over time and execution duration based on a given allocation strategy with low overhead. This method enables computationally simple and fast performance predictions, including bottleneck analysis during workflow runtime. We derive a piecewise-defined bottleneck function from the discrete intersections of the task models' limiting functions. This allows us to predict potential performance gains when mitigating bottlenecks and aids in better resource allocation and workflow execution.
Fixed-frequency transmon quantum computers (QCs) have advanced in coherence times, addressability, and gate fidelities. Unfortunately, these devices are restricted by the number of on-chip qubits, capping processing p...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781665462723
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665462723
Fixed-frequency transmon quantum computers (QCs) have advanced in coherence times, addressability, and gate fidelities. Unfortunately, these devices are restricted by the number of on-chip qubits, capping processing power and slowing progress toward fault-tolerance. Although emerging transmon devices feature over 100 qubits, building QCs large enough for meaningful demonstrations of quantum advantage requires overcoming many design challenges. For example, today's transmon qubits suffer from significant variation due to limited precision in fabrication. As a result, barring significant improvements in current fabrication techniques, scaling QCs by building ever larger individual chips with more qubits is hampered by device variation. Severe device variation that degrades QC performance is referred to as a defect. Here, we focus on a specific defect known as a frequency collision. When transmon frequencies collide, their difference falls within a range that limits two-qubit gate fidelity. Frequency collisions occur with greater probability on larger QCs, causing collision-free yields to decline as the number of on-chip qubits increases. As a solution, we propose exploiting the higher yields associated with smaller QCs by integrating quantum chiplets within quantum multi-chip modules (MCMs). Yield, gate performance, and application-based analysis show the feasibility of QC scaling through modularity. Our results demonstrate that chiplet architectures, relative to monolithic designs, benefit from average yield improvements ranging from 9.6 - 92.6 x for less than or similar to 500 qubit machines. In addition, our simulations explore the design space of chiplet systems and discover configurations that demonstrate average two-qubit gate infidelity reductions that are at best 0.815 x their monolithic counterpart. Finally, we observe that carefully-selected modular systems achieve fidelity improvements on a range of benchmark circuits.
Modern GPU systems are constantly evolving to meet the needs of computing-intensive applications in scientific and machine learning domains. However, there is typically a gap between the hardware capacity and the achi...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9798350355543
Modern GPU systems are constantly evolving to meet the needs of computing-intensive applications in scientific and machine learning domains. However, there is typically a gap between the hardware capacity and the achievable application performance. This work aims to provide a better understanding of the Infinity Fabric interconnects on AMD GPUs and CPUs. We propose a test and evaluation methodology for characterizing the performance of data movements on multi-GPU systems, stressing different communication options on AMD MI250X GPUs, including point-to-point and collective communication, and memory allocation strategies between GPUs, as well as the host CPU. In a single-node setup with four GPUs, we show that direct peer-to-peer memory accesses between GPUs and utilization of the RCCL library outperform MPI-based solutions in terms of memory/communication latency and bandwidth. Our test and evaluation method serves as a base for validating memory and communication strategies on a system and improving applications on AMD multi-GPU computingsystems.
Spatial experience, or how humans experience a given space, has been a pivotal topic especially in urban-scale environments. On the human scale, HCI researchers have mostly investigated personal meanings or aesthetic ...
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Blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative solution for decentralized applications, significantly affecting various sectors. Despite its potential, evaluating blockchain performance remains a complex challe...
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In conjunction with the increasing ubiquity of technology, computing educators have identified the need for pedagogical engagement with ethical awareness and moral reasoning. Typical approaches to incorporating ethics...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781450383264
In conjunction with the increasing ubiquity of technology, computing educators have identified the need for pedagogical engagement with ethical awareness and moral reasoning. Typical approaches to incorporating ethics in computing curricula have focused primarily on abstract methods, principles, or paradigms of ethical reasoning, with relatively little focus on examining and developing students' pragmatic awareness of ethics as grounded in their everyday work practices. In this paper, we identify and describe computing students' negotiation of values as they engage in authentic design problems through a lab protocol study. We collected data from four groups of three students each, with each group including participants from either undergraduate User Experience Design students, Industrial Engineering students, or a mix of both. We used a thematic analysis approach to identify the roles that students took on to address the design prompt. Through our analysis, we found that the students took on a variety of "dark" roles that resulted in manipulation of the user and prioritization of stakeholder needs over user needs, with a focus either on building solutions or building rationale for design decisions. We found these roles to actively propagate through design discourses, impacting other designers in ways that frequently reinforced unethical decision making. Even when students were aware of ethical concerns based on their educational training, this awareness did not consistently result in ethicallysound decisions. These findings indicate the need for additional ethical supports to inform everyday computing practice, including means of actively identifying and balancing negative societal impacts of design decisions. The roles we have identified may productively support the development of pragmatically-focused ethical training in computing education, while adding more precision to future analysis of computing student discourses and outputs.
The proceedings contain 31 papers. The topics discussed include: modelling and testing multi-qubit universal control gate developed for quantum computingsystems;device model and communication protocol with low overhe...
ISBN:
(纸本)9781450396448
The proceedings contain 31 papers. The topics discussed include: modelling and testing multi-qubit universal control gate developed for quantum computingsystems;device model and communication protocol with low overhead for sensors and actuators in smart buildings;real-time trajectory replanning for dynamic obstacles avoidance for robotics manipulators;security aspects of behavioral biometrics for strong user authentication;fractal time series analysis by using entropy and hurst exponent;linear images coprocessing in environmental monitoring;a novel photoplethysmographic noise removal method via wavelet transform to effective preprocessing;how university students in ‘informatics and computer sciences’ would like to use video games for learning;extrapolating the digital readiness – are Turkmen undergraduate students competent for online learning?;and troubleshooting combinational logic circuits web-based learning system for improving students engagement.
Genome sequencing is continuing to revolutionize the medical, forensics, agricultural, and biosecurity fields. The enormous amounts of data from modern sequencing technology, require significant time and cost to obtai...
ISBN:
(纸本)9798350323481
Genome sequencing is continuing to revolutionize the medical, forensics, agricultural, and biosecurity fields. The enormous amounts of data from modern sequencing technology, require significant time and cost to obtain accurate results using general-purpose computing resources. The emergence of third-generation sequencers called nanopore sequencers offers small, cheap, and portable genome sequencing capabilities. However, the bottleneck during computational analysis limits scalability and portability. This paper introduces the necessity for one, optimization of existing algorithms; two, efficient utilization of existing heterogeneous systems; and three, novel algorithms and domain-specific architectures for rapid in situ analysis of third-generation sequencing data. State-of-the-art examples are described and future challenges are outlined.
As the prevalence of diabetes mellitus rises, more families are being impacted. Most diabetics don't know much about their health situation or the risks they face before getting a diagnosis. A unique data mining-b...
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