HPCA - Universitat Jaume I de Castellon

The High Performance Computing and Architectures (HPCA) was created in 1991 at the University Jaume I (UJI). This group pursues the optimization of scientific applications on general-purpose processors as well as hardware accelerators (e.g., GPUs and FPGAs), and their parallelization on clusters and shared-memory mutiprocessors (SMPs, CC-NUMA multiprocessors, and multi- core architectures). The HPCA group is currently composed of 1 professor, 10 associate professors, and 7 full-time researchers. The group administers its own small data center with two clusters, and several GPU platforms.

 

The HPCA groups mid-term objective is to develop software (HPC runtimes, numerical libraries, virtualization middleware, and energy analysis tools) which can be transferred to the industry, thus transferring their research results to the society. Therefore, UJI maintains strong collaborations with large industrials partners. In the last years HPCA has been highly motivated to pursue research topics related to Green Computing, which led HPCA to get involved in a EU COST network on this area.

 

During the past years, the members of the HPCA group have acquired a deep understanding of the architecture of current general-purpose processors as well as hardware accelerators, parallel computing techniques, and existing system tools and applications. Based on this knowledge, the group is currently collaborating with KIT in the application of energy saving strategies to the iterative solution of large sparse linear.
Contribution to EXA2GREEN
The members of HPCA will contribute to the project with the development of tools that ease the evaluation of the energy consumed by applications as well as the development of energy-aware numerical algorithms, and the design of energy-saving policies that can be incorporated into practical runtimes.
Dr. Enrique Qintana-Orti
E-mail: quintana@icc.uji.es
Telephone: +34 (0) 964-728-257
Fax: +34 (0) 964-728-486
Web: www.hpca.uji.es
Dr. Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí
Exa2Green Activities / Role in the project:
  • Leader of WP3: Development of energy-aware numerical linear algebra libraries
  • Contribution to WP1 by developing energy analysis tools in collaboration with UHAM
  • Collaboration with IBM in the development and analysis of energy-efficient kernels (WP2).
  • Runtime software for linear algebra solvers developed in WP3 will be used by KIT (WP4) and ETHZ (WP5).
  • Support in dissemination activities (WP7)
  • Participation in handling of IPR issues within the consortium and in the elaboration of exploitation strategy and technology implementation plan (WP7)

 

Background and research/work focus:
Enrique holds a BS degree (1992) and a Ph.D. (1996), both in Computer Science and from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. He is a professor in Computer Architecture at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the UJI since 2009, where he leads the HPCA group. His research interests include the development of numerical kernels, optimisation tools, and run-time accelerators for general-purpose multi-core processors and the heterogeneous platforms equipped with hardware accelerators, with special emphasis on energy consumption. He has published 150+ papers in international journals and conferences related with these topics. For this work, Enrique was granted the 2008 NVIDIA Professor Partnership Award and two technical awards from NASA. Enrique is a member of the management committee of the European Network COST IC805; and he also participates in the European Network of Excellence HiPEAC2, the European Network COST IC804 for "Energy Efficiency in Large Distributed Systems", and the EU Project "TEXT: Towards EXaflop applicaTions".
Contact
Phone:
+34 964 728 257

 

e-Mail:
quintana@icc.uji.es
Dr. Rafael Mayo
Background and research/work focus:
Rafael received the BS degree from Polytechnic Valencia University in 1991 and he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in 2001 from the same university. Since October 2002 he is an Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering of the UJI. His research interests include the optimisation of numerical algorithms for general processors, specific accelerators, clusters and shared-memory multiprocessors. He has published 40+ papers in international scientific journals and international conferences related with these topics. Currently he is involved in several research efforts on high performance computing energy-aware systems, including the deployment of energy-aware data centres and resource virtualisation.
Contact
Phone:
+34 964 728 260

 

e-Mail:
mayo@icc.uji.es
Sandra Catalan
Exa2Green Activities / Role in the project:
Ph.D. Student

 

Background and research/work focus:
Sandra received her B.S. degree from the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, in 2012. She is currently pursuing her MSc degree in Intelligent Systems from the same university. Her current research is focused on energy saving on moderate-scale clusters and multi-core GPU platforms.
Contact
e-Mail:
catalans@uji.es
Uni Jaume