From April 24th to 26th, 2024, the XXIV Escola Regional de Alto Desempenho da Região Sul (ERAD/RS 2024) occurred in Florianópolis, SC. This event is held annually by the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) in conjunction with the Comissão Especial de Arquitetura de Computadores e Processamento de Alto Desempenho (CE-ACPAD) and Comissão Regional de Alto…
Between March 1st and 3rd, the 31st edition of the Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2023) took place in Naples, Italy. This year, the 31st PDP edition is part of the promotional activities of the ADMIRE project, which will also be an exhibitor in the Conference Demo Area along with…
Euromicro is an international scientific organization that advances the sciences and applications of Information Technology and Microelectronics. A significant focus is organizing conferences and workshops in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Annually, the Euromicro organization hosts the Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP). This year, the 31st edition of the event…
Between October 19th and 21st, the XXII Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD 2022) took place in Florianópolis. WSCAD is an annual event promoted by the Special Commission on Computer Architecture and High Performance Processing (CE-ACPAD) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Since the 2000s, the event has presented the main developments, applications, and…
The Computer and High-Performance Computing Thesis and Dissertation Competition (WSCAD-CTD) occurred between October 19th and 21st. The competition was held with the XXII Symposium on High-Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD 2022) in Florianópolis city. Master’s and Ph.D. theses defended from July 1st, 2021, in Computer Architecture and High-Performance Computing were accepted for submission. GMAP researcher Adriano…
From October 3 to October 7, 2022, the 23rd edition of the Scientific Initiation Salon (SIC) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) took place. SIC is promoted by the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies of PUCRS and aims to provide the exchange of knowledge and of research results developed…
The Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) is an international forum for researchers, practitioners, and students to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of Software Engineering and Advanced Applications in information technology for software-intensive systems. This year, the event occurred from August 31st to September…
During the XXII Regional School of High Performance of the South Region (ERAD/RS), the fifth edition of the Parallel Programming Marathon took place to promote knowledge in parallel and distributed programming. The target audience is undergraduate and graduate students of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, and related courses. This year, undergraduate student Caetano Muller,…
The Regional High-Performance School (ERAD/RS) takes place annually. Its main objectives are to qualify future professionals from southern Brazil in the areas that compose the high-performance processing, provide a regular forum in which recent advances in these areas can be presented, and discuss ways of teaching high-performance processing in universities. ERAD/RS has presentation tracks for…
On April 4th, Gabriell Alves de Araujo successfully defended his master’s thesis “Data and Stream Parallelism Optimization on GPUs” at the School of Technology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Gabriell is currently a Ph.D. candidate at GMAP. The defense was done through video conference due to the events of…
On March 21st, Adriano Vogel (GMAP researcher) successfully defended his thesis “Self-adaptive abstractions for efficient high-level parallel computing in multi-cores” at the School of Technology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). The defense was done through video conference due to the events of Covid-19. Main research findings: Nowadays, a significant…
In 2021, the 3rd edition of the GMAP Workshop (WGMAP) took place on December 16 and 17. Again, due to Covid-19, the WGMAP took place via videoconference. The event aims to promote a space for socialization among the members of GMAP, with the dissemination of research activities carried out by Ph.D., Master’s, and undergraduate students.…
The XXII Symposium on High-Performance Computing Systems (WSCAD 2021) is a traditional Brazilian event in the area of computer architecture, high-performance processing, and distributed systems. The event takes place annually, providing a discussion forum for hundreds of researchers, industry professionals, and students who develop applications in this area. Besides the main event, other related events…
The 22nd edition of the Scientific Initiation Meeting (SIC) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) promoted by the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at PUCRS, took place between October 4 and 8, 2021. The goal of SIC is to provide the exchange of knowledge and the results of research…
The 25th edition of the Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP) took place in virtual format from September 27 to October 1, 2021, promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). SBLP 2021 is a forum for students, researchers, and practitioners to present and discuss ideas and innovations in the design, definition, analysis, implementation, and practical…
The paper entitled “High-level and efficient structured stream parallelism for rust on multi-cores” was published in the Journal of Computer Languages (COLA) from Elsevier publisher. The work was written by GMAP researcher Ricardo Pieper, during his master’s degree, advised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes, and co-advised by Dr. Dalvan Griebler. The original paper entitled “Structured…
Ph.D. student Adriano Vogel had his article entitled “Providing high-level self-adaptive abstractions for stream parallelism on multicores” published in the Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE) from Wiley publisher. The SPE scope is focused on the discussion of experiences and practical aspects of software for computational systems and applications. The work was advised by…
The paper entitled “The NAS Parallel Benchmarks for evaluating C++ parallel programming frameworks on shared-memory architectures” was published in the Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS). This work was realized by GMAP Master’s student Júnior Löff, advised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes, and co-advised by Dr. Dalvan Griebler. In addition, it had the collaboration…
On July 20th, the 40th edition of the Scientific Initiation Works Competition (CTIC 2021) took place remotely during the Brazilian Computer Society Congress (CSBC 2021), which in 2021 took place from July 18 to 23. The CTIC takes place annually with the objective of encouraging undergraduate students in the area of Computing to produce original…
At present, low-level techniques, such as send/receive message passing, are popular methodologies for parallel and distributed programming. However, high-level structured approaches offered many potential advantages and played a key role in the scalable exploitation of parallelism. The International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP) is intended to provide a forum for discussion and…
The Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD 2021) and Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2021) took place simultaneously from September 1 to 3, 2021. The conferences cover trends in embedded, high-performance, and cyber-physical applications, hardware/software code design, software engineering, and advanced applications in information technology for software-intensive systems. Both conferences…
The 2nd edition of the GMAP Workshop took place on December 21, 2020. This year the Workshop took place via videoconference due to the events of Covid-19. The Workshop’s goal was to promote a space for socialization among the members of GMAP, with the dissemination of research activities carried out by doctoral students, master’s students…
On Friday, November 27, 2020, Dinei Rockenbach (GMAP master’s student) was approved with distinction in the defense of his master’s thesis at the School of Technology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). The master’s thesis was advised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes (PUCRS) and Dr. Dalvan Griebler (PNPD/PUCRS). The members…
On 02 of December 2020, starting 14:00, Renato B. Hoffmann (GMAP member) was approved in his Final Thesis defense as partial fulfillment for the bachelor in Computer Engineering in the School of Technology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). The thesis was advised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes and co-advised…
The paper “Stream parallelism annotations for Multi-Core Frameworks” was presented at the 24th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages by GMAP member Renato Hoffmann. The event was in a virtual format and the presentation happened at 15:45 on day 19 of October of 2020. The Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP) is a forum for students,…
From the 26th to the 30th of October 2020, the 21st Scientific Initiation Meeting (SIC) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) took place, promoted by the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at PUCRS. This year, the SIC was carried out in an online and synchronous way due to the…
On Wednesday, September 25, 2020, Ricardo Luis Pieper (GMAP master’s student) was approved with distinction in defense of his master’s thesis at the School of Technology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). The master’s thesis was advised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes and Dr. Dalvan Griebler (PNPD/PUCRS). The members of…
Due to the current restrictions imposed by COVID-19, since April 13 this year, meetings with GMAP members have been held every two weeks via videoconference. The meetings are guided by the general coordinator Prof. Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes with the collaboration of the research coordinator Prof. Dr. Dalvan Griebler. Online meetings are a space for…
GMAP members Adriano Marques Garcia, Dalvan Griebler, and Luiz Gustavo Fernandes, together with co-authors Matheus Serpa (UFRGS), Claudio Schepke (UNIPAMPA) and Philippe Navaux (UFRGS) won the best paper award at the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2020). The event took place from 1 to 4 July in the city of…
This year, as in all the last years, GMAP submitted papers to the High-Performance Regional School of Rio Grande do Sul (ERAD/RS). The ERAD works as a way to disseminate knowledge in the area of High-Performance Computing and related areas. In 2020, there were 6 submissions, and all accepted for publication. The authors of the…
Between the 11th and 13th of March 2020 the 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2020) took place. Due to the latest events caused by COVID-19, the PDP 2020 organization decided to carry out this edition in a virtual way. GMAP member Gabriell Alves de Araujo had a paper published…
On Wednesday, December 4, 2019, Gabriell Alves de Araujo presented his undergraduate thesis entitled “A Study of the NAS Parallel Benchmarks with CUDA”. Gabriel is a student in the Computer Science course at the Polytechnic School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and a scientific initiation student at GMAP. The…
On Friday, November 22, 2019, Adriano José Vogel, had his thesis proposal approved. Adriano is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Computer Science at the Polytechnic School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). The work was supervised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Fernandes and co-supervised by Dr. Dalvan Griebler.…
The first GMAP Workshop took place on November 22, 2019. The purpose of the Workshop was to promote a space for socialization among the researchers of the group. Dissemination and discussion about research activities carried out by doctoral students, master’s students and undergraduate students were made. The Workshop served as a space for the integration…
From the 23rd to the 27th of September 2019, the 20th Scientific Initiation Meeting (SIC) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) took place, promoted by the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at PUCRS. The SIC represents a space for socializing research activities, involving undergraduate students and professors/researchers from different…
Between September 3 and 13, 2019, we received the visit of Professor Gabriele Mencagli, from the University of Pisa, in Italy. Gabriele came to Brazil through the Institutional Internationalization Project (PUCRS-PrInt), which aims to develop, consolidate and integrate the international and intercultural parts in the scope of teaching, research, innovation, and extension at the University.…
From June 4 to 7, 2019, the Internal Seminar for Evaluation of the Scientific Initiation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) was held by the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. The seminar is a socialization space for research activities, involving the CNPq and FAPERGS Scholarships. The project titled “A…
On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, Adriano José Vogel (Ph.D. student at GMAP), successfully defended his Master Thesis “Adaptive Degree of Parallelism for the SPar Runtime” advised by Dr. Luiz Gustavo Leão Fernandes and Dr. Dalvan Griebler, at the Polytechnic School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Following, the abstract of…
VII Nvidia GPU Workshop was great, which was organized by Nvidia, PUCRS, and GMAP. The event happened Friday 10/11/2017 at PUCRS. Since the beginning, there were a lot of people. We estimated 200 people in the event, which were researchers, investors, students, startups, and industry. Reference: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vii-nvidia-gpu-workshop-pucrs-tickets-38810731944#
This will be the VII NVIDIA GPU WORKSHOP, being for the first time happening in the south of Brazil. It is an event for developers working with Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, High-Performance Computing, Parallel Programming, Virtual Reality, Game Development, Graphic Processing, and Data Science. In addition, this event offers a rich content of technologies and…
On Wednesday January 18th, Andriele Busatto do Carmo (GMAP researcher), presented her PHD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics (FACIN) of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). The presentation took place in the conference room, building 40, at 08:30 AM. Dissertation title and abstract: Título: EXPLOITING RESOURCE HETEROGENEITY ON COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS…