High Performance Computing and Computer Architectures

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 6573

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Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Department for Electronics and Computing, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
Interests: advanced computer architecture; artificial intelligence; high performance computing; edge computing; embedded systems
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Faculty for Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Department for Electronics and Computing, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
Interests: artificial intelligence; machine and deep learning; image processing; advanced computer architecture; high performance computing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Application trends, device technologies, and the architecture of computing systems are driving progress in information technologies. This poses new challenges in the advancement of computer architectures as well as regarding software solutions. Therefore, this Special Issue is intended for the presentation of new ideas and experimental results in the field of high performance computing and computer architectures from design, service, and theory to its practical use. 

Areas relevant to high performance computing and computer architectures include, but are not limited to, computation and data-intensive applications, novel concurrent algorithms and applications, large-scale computational science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and the processing of voluminous datasets from satellites, scientific experiments, sensor networks, medical instruments, and other sources. Computer architecture necessary to achieve extremely high performance, techniques for resource management in the context of parallel and distributed systems, and energy-aware computing are also topics of interest. 

This Special Issue will publish high-quality, original research papers, in the overlapping fields of: 

  • High-performance computing;
  • Parallel and distributed computing;
  • Artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning;
  • Computational and data science;
  • Big data applications, algorithms, and systems;
  • Ontologies and semantics;
  • Cloud/edge/fog computing;
  • Green computing;
  • Neuromorphic computing;
  • Quantum computing.

Keywords

  • high perfermance computing
  • artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning
  • processor, memory, and storage systems architecture
  • interconnection networks
  • instruction, thread and data-level parallelism
  • accelerator system design, GPUs, FPGAs, CGRAs power and energy efficient architectures
  • application specific, reconfigurable, IoT, mobile and embedded architectures
  • architecture modelling and performance evaluation
  • machine learning systems, including algorithms/system co-design

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Performance Comparison of H.264 and H.265 Encoders in a 4K FPV Drone Piloting System
by Jakov Benjak, Daniel Hofman, Josip Knezović and Martin Žagar
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(13), 6386; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app12136386 - 23 Jun 2022
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With the rapid growth of video data traffic on the Internet and the development of new types of video transmission systems, the need for ad hoc video encoders has also increased. One such case involves Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), widely known as drones, [...] Read more.
With the rapid growth of video data traffic on the Internet and the development of new types of video transmission systems, the need for ad hoc video encoders has also increased. One such case involves Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), widely known as drones, which are used in drone races, search and rescue efforts, capturing panoramic views, and so on. In this paper, we provide an efficiency comparison of the two most popular video encoders—H.264 and H.265—in a drone piloting system using first-person view (FPV). In this system, a drone is used to capture video, which is then transmitted to FPV goggles in real time. We examine the compression efficiency of 4K drone footage by varying parameters such as Group of Pictures (GOP) size, Quantization Parameter (QP), and target bitrate. The quality of the compressed footage is determined using four objective video quality measures: PSNR, SSIM, VMAF, and BRISQUE. Apart from video quality, encoding time and encoding energy consumption are also compared. The research was performed using numerous nodes on a supercomputer. Full article
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A Novel Tradeoff Analysis between Traffic Congestion and Packing Density of Interconnection Networks for Massively Parallel Computers
by M M Hafizur Rahman, Mohammed Al-Naeem, Mohammed Mustafa Ghowanem and Eklas Hossain
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(22), 10798; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/app112210798 - 15 Nov 2021
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From disaster prevention to mitigation, drug analysis to drug design, agriculture to food security, IoT to AI, and big data analysis to knowledge or sentiment mining, a high computation power is a prime necessity at present. As such, massively parallel computer (MPC) systems [...] Read more.
From disaster prevention to mitigation, drug analysis to drug design, agriculture to food security, IoT to AI, and big data analysis to knowledge or sentiment mining, a high computation power is a prime necessity at present. As such, massively parallel computer (MPC) systems comprising a large number of nodes are gaining popularity. To interconnect these huge numbers of nodes efficiently, hierarchical interconnection networks are an attractive and feasible option. A Tori-connected flattened butterfly network (TFBN) has been proposed by the authors in a prior work for future generation MPC systems. In the previous study, the static network performance and static cost-effectiveness were evaluated. In this research, a novel trade-off factor named message traffic congestion vs. packing density trade-off factor has been proposed, which characterizes the message congestion in the network and its packing density. The factor is used to statically assess the suitability of the implementation of an interconnection network. The message traffic density, packing density, and new factor have been evaluated for the proposed network and similar competitive networks such as TTN, TESH, 2D-Mesh, 3D-Mesh, 2D-Torus, and 3D-Torus. It has been found that the performance of the TFBN is superior to the other networks. Full article
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