The Impact of the Innovative Computing Laboratory on HPC

Abstract

Celebrating 35 years, the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) is a research center within the EECS Department at UT, founded by Professor Emeritus Jack Dongarra. ICL is structured as three teams that cover different aspects of high-performance computing (HPC): numerical linear algebra, distributed computing, and performance evaluation and benchmarking. These teams provide production-ready libraries that are used in applications throughout the HPC community. These include the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, (D)PLASMA, MAGMA, SLATE, Ginkgo, and heFFTe numerical libraries; the Message Passing Interface (MPI), Open MPI, the Parallel Runtime Scheduling and Execution Controller (PaRSEC), the Performance Application Programming Interface (PAPI), and the High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) and High-Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) benchmarks that drive the Top 500 list of supercomputers. This talk gives an overview of ICL's work and impact on HPC, and highlights areas for collaboration.

Biography

Mark Gates, research assistant professor at the Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL), received his BS, MS, and PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign. He worked at NCSA on high-performance wide-area networking, where he developed the Iperf tool to measure network bandwidth. Gates has been at ICL since 2011, where his research is in high-performance computing focusing on numerical linear algebra. He has contributed to the LAPACK, PLASMA, MAGMA, and SLATE libraries, which cover CPU, multicore, GPU-accelerated, and distributed implementations of linear algebra. Since January 2024, he has been the Interim ICL Director.