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The High Performance Computing Tools (HPCTools) group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston is engaged in leading-edge research into programming models for a variety of emerging architectures, including multicore and manycore platforms, embedded systems, and petascale to exascale supercomputers. We strive to increase programmer productivity, enhance application performance, develop novel implementation technologies that anticipate architectural changes and emerging user needs, and provide reference implementations of our ideas. Our funded research includes efforts related to the OpenMP, OpenACC and OpenSHMEM programming interfaces as well as Co-Array Fortran, and attempts to provide these programming interfaces for exascale platforms.

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Our Mission

The High Performance Computing Tools group (HPCTools) is a research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. The group was created by Dr. Barbara Chapman who joined the department in Spring 1999. Our mission is to perform cutting-edge research and development in programming languages, compilers, tools and applications for performance, productivity and power in HPC systems. We are also part of the OpenMP community and take part in the OpenMP ARB committees. We are also a member of the Multicore Association (MCA) and actively contribute to the development of MCA standards for parallel systems.

Our Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by our sponsors:

    • National Science Foundation
    • U.S. Department of Energy
    • Total S.A
    • Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
More information about our collaborations with various institutes from industry and academia can be found in here.

What is cOMPunity ?

cOMPunity is the community of OpenMP researchers and developers in academia and industry. It is a forum for the dissemination and exchange of information about OpenMP. cOMPunity is also a forum for discussing our experiences with this programming API and for debating ideas that might improveit. Dr. Barbara Chapman is CEO of cOMPunity, which aims to enable research participation in the OpenMP standards activities and promotes interactions between vendors, researchers and users of this industry standard.

Contact Us

Your comments and suggestions are important to us. Let us know what more would you like to know about this group and its research efforts. You can reach us at hpctools.UH AT gmail dot com or at mailing address found in contact information.

 

On-going projects at HPCTools

 

Current News

To view a complete list of news, please visit our News page.

  • The Wall Street Journal published a press release about the OpenACC standard gaining momentum with growing developer tool support. The article also features Dr. Barbara Chapman and the HPCTools group at the University of Houston, who are launching an OpenACC test suite. Scheduled to be released in the summer of 2012, the suite will test expected functionality of OpenACC features and will help speed development of new, robust products. More
  • Dr. Chapman and Sunita Chandrasekaran organized a mini-symposium at SIAM 2012. Presentations from the symposium titled "Applications and programming models for multi-core heterogeneous architectures" are available here
  • Dr. Chapman gave a keynote speech titled "An Evolutionary Exascale Programming Model Deserves Revolutionary Support" at the HIPS'12 Workshop held in conjunction with IPDPS'12 on March 21st, 2012. Slides
  • Congratulations to Sayan Ghosh and Walid Ali Elkour who passed their M.S. thesis defenses in April 2012.
  • Dr. Oscar Hernandez from ORNL visited the HPCTools group April 3rd - April 6th, 2012.
  • Dr. Henri Calandra from Total, France visited the HPCTools group on March 8th, 2012.
  • Dr. Detlef Hohl from Shell Inc. gave a talk at the Department of Computer Science, University of Houston. More>>
  • Dr. Steve Roberts from ORAU visited the University of Houston. More>>














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