At the 168th HPC Research Group meeting of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), held in Ishikawa from March 5 to 7, 2019, students Serizawa (first-year master’s student), Tsuji (first-year master’s student), Nakamichi (first-year master’s student), Watanabe (first-year master’s student) and Sugihara (fourth-year undergraduate) of our laboratory submitted papers and gave presentations with the following titles.

“Automatic Optimization for Accelerating the Training of Deep Neural Networks”
Kazuhiro Serizawa, Osamu Tatebe (University of Tsukuba)

“Acceleration of an Urban Meteorology LES Code in a Parallel GPU Environment”
Daisuke Tsuji, Hiroto Tadano, Taisuke Boku, Ryosaku Ikeda, Takuto Sato, Hiroyuki Kusaka (University of Tsukuba)

“A Study of a Heterogeneous Acceleration Programming Environment on Nodes Equipped with Both GPUs and FPGAs”
Ayumi Nakamichi, Ryohei Kobayashi, Norihisa Fujita, Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba)

“A Study on Integrating SPGen and OpenCL for Offload Optimization to FPGAs”
Yutaka Watanabe (University of Tsukuba), Jinpil Lee, Kentaro Sano (RIKEN), Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba), Mitsuhisa Sato (RIKEN / University of Tsukuba)

“Design of MPI-IO for Node-Local Burst Buffers”
Kohei Sugihara, Osamu Tatebe (University of Tsukuba)

For the program and other details of the 168th HPC Research Group meeting, please see here.