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Nesrine Khouzami received her bachelor and master degrees from the Superior National Engineering School of Tunis (Ensit) respectively in June 2010 and February 2013. Her master thesis was about designing a decentralized approach for resources reservation in desktop grids. Then, she joined the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for about a year and a half, where she worked on leveraging high-performance in-memory key-value data stores to accelerate data intensive tasks. At the CC Chair, Nesrine works on domain specific languages (e.g, for computational biology) in the high-performance computing domain.
I am working on OpenPME (Open Particle Mesh Environment) project, a Problem Solving Environment (PSE) providing a DSL and a source-to-source compiler for particle-mesh simulations. OpenPME is considered as an intermediate layer between users in the computational domain and the OpenFPM C++ template-based library designed to write code for particle-mesh simulations. The following figure shows the design overview of OpenPME.
OpenPME uses a model-to-model transformation for code generation. As shown below, an OpenPME program is lowered to an IR, and then a final text generation to obtain OpenFPM C++ code.
We offer the following topics on domain-specific language (DSL) and compiler optimizations suitable for Master/Bachelor/Diploma thesis.
- Extensions and enhancements of OpenPME DSL implementation
- OpenPME Data-flow analysis for communication and computation optimizations
- Create and integrate a particle-mesh MLIR dialect in OpenPME
If you liked one of the aforementioned topics, please reach out to me to discuss it together and have further clarifications/details. I am also open to discussing other ideas and topics in the same research area.
To have an overview of any of the projects you have already picked up, I recommend checking the following materials to acquire some fundamental knowledge about the whole domain. If you don’t grasp much of the content of some materials, it is ok, don’t get overwhelmed, things will be clarified once you dig deeper into your chosen project
To have an overview of what particle methods are, please check Prof Ivo Sbalzarini's link.
To have a general idea about OpenPME, check our paper and our GitHub repository.
A general overview of our target OpenFPM library is also recommended, check its paper.
2022
- Nesrine Khouzami, Jeronimo Castrillon, "Problem Solving Environment and Compiler Optimizations for High-Performance Particle-Mesh Numerical Simulations", Supercomputing Conference (SC 2022) - Women in HPC Workshop (WHPC), Nov 2022. [Bibtex & Downloads]
Problem Solving Environment and Compiler Optimizations for High-Performance Particle-Mesh Numerical Simulations
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Nesrine Khouzami, Jeronimo Castrillon, "Problem Solving Environment and Compiler Optimizations for High-Performance Particle-Mesh Numerical Simulations", Supercomputing Conference (SC 2022) - Women in HPC Workshop (WHPC), Nov 2022.
Abstract
We present OpenPME (Open Particle-Mesh Environment), a Problem Solving Environment (PSE) which provides a Domain Specific Language (DSL) built atop a domain model general enough to write numerical simulations in scientific computing using particle-mesh abstractions. This helps to close the productivity gap in HPC applications and effectively lowers the programming barrier to enable the smooth implementation of scalable simulations. We also introduce a model-based autotuning approach of discretization methods for OpenPME compiler. We evaluate the autotuner in two diffusion test cases and the results show that we consistently find configurations that outperform those found by state-of-the-art general-purpose autotuners.
Bibtex
@InProceedings{khouzami_sc_whpc22,
author = {Nesrine Khouzami and Jeronimo Castrillon},
title = {Problem Solving Environment and Compiler Optimizations for High-Performance Particle-Mesh Numerical Simulations},
location = {Dallas, Texas},
publisher = {Supercomputing Conference (SC 2022) - Women in HPC Workshop (WHPC)},
abstract = {We present OpenPME (Open Particle-Mesh Environment), a Problem Solving Environment (PSE) which provides a Domain Specific Language (DSL) built atop a domain model general enough to write numerical simulations in scientific computing using particle-mesh abstractions. This helps to close the productivity gap in HPC applications and effectively lowers the programming barrier to enable the smooth implementation of scalable simulations. We also introduce a model-based autotuning approach of discretization methods for OpenPME compiler. We evaluate the autotuner in two diffusion test cases and the results show that we consistently find configurations that outperform those found by state-of-the-art general-purpose autotuners.},
month = nov,
numpages = {3},
year = {2022},
}Downloads
2211_Khouzami_WHPC-SC [PDF]
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2021
- Nesrine Khouzami, Friedrich Michel, Pietro Incardona, Jeronimo Castrillon, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, "Model-based Autotuning of Discretization Methods in Numerical Simulations of Partial Differential Equations", In Journal of Computational Science, vol. 57, pp. 1–11, Dec 2021. [doi] [Bibtex & Downloads]
Model-based Autotuning of Discretization Methods in Numerical Simulations of Partial Differential Equations
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Nesrine Khouzami, Friedrich Michel, Pietro Incardona, Jeronimo Castrillon, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, "Model-based Autotuning of Discretization Methods in Numerical Simulations of Partial Differential Equations", In Journal of Computational Science, vol. 57, pp. 1–11, Dec 2021. [doi]
Abstract
We present an autotuning approach for compile-time optimization of numerical discretization methods in simulations of partial differential equations. Our approach is based on data-driven regression of performance models for numerical methods. We use these models at compile time to automatically determine the parameters (e.g., resolution, time step size, etc.) of numerical simulations of continuum spatio-temporal models in order to optimize the tradeoff between simulation accuracy and runtime. The resulting autotuner is developed for the compiler of a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for numerical simulations. The abstractions in the DSL enable the compiler to automatically determine the performance models and know which discretization parameters to tune. We demonstrate that this high-level approach can explore a large space of possible simulations, with simulation runtimes spanning multiple orders of magnitude. We evaluate our approach in two test cases: the linear diffusion equation and the nonlinear Gray-Scott reaction–diffusion equation. The results show that our model-based autotuner consistently finds configurations that outperform those found by state-of-the-art general-purpose autotuners. Specifically, our autotuner yields simulations that are on average 4.2x faster than those found by the best generic exploration algorithms, while using 16x less tuning time. Compared to manual tuning by a group of researchers with varying levels of expertise, the autotuner was slower than the best users by not more than a factor of 2, whereas it was able to significantly outperform half of them.
Bibtex
@Article{khouzami_jocs21,
author = {Nesrine Khouzami and Friedrich Michel and Pietro Incardona and Jeronimo Castrillon and Ivo F. Sbalzarini},
date = {2021-12},
title = {Model-based Autotuning of Discretization Methods in Numerical Simulations of Partial Differential Equations},
doi = {10.1016/j.jocs.2021.101489},
issn = {1877-7503},
pages = {1--11},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877750321001563},
volume = {57},
abstract = {We present an autotuning approach for compile-time optimization of numerical discretization methods in simulations of partial differential equations. Our approach is based on data-driven regression of performance models for numerical methods. We use these models at compile time to automatically determine the parameters (e.g., resolution, time step size, etc.) of numerical simulations of continuum spatio-temporal models in order to optimize the tradeoff between simulation accuracy and runtime. The resulting autotuner is developed for the compiler of a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for numerical simulations. The abstractions in the DSL enable the compiler to automatically determine the performance models and know which discretization parameters to tune. We demonstrate that this high-level approach can explore a large space of possible simulations, with simulation runtimes spanning multiple orders of magnitude. We evaluate our approach in two test cases: the linear diffusion equation and the nonlinear Gray-Scott reaction–diffusion equation. The results show that our model-based autotuner consistently finds configurations that outperform those found by state-of-the-art general-purpose autotuners. Specifically, our autotuner yields simulations that are on average 4.2x faster than those found by the best generic exploration algorithms, while using 16x less tuning time. Compared to manual tuning by a group of researchers with varying levels of expertise, the autotuner was slower than the best users by not more than a factor of 2, whereas it was able to significantly outperform half of them.},
journal = {Journal of Computational Science},
month = dec,
numpages = {15},
project = {openpme},
year = {2021},
}Downloads
2111_Khouzami_JOCS [PDF]
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- Nesrine Khouzami, Lars Schütze, Pietro Incardona, Landfried Kraaz, Tina Subic, Jeronimo Castrillon, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, "The OpenPME Problem Solving Environment for Numerical Simulations", In Proceeding: International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'21) (Paszynski, Maciej and Kranzlmüller, Dieter and Krzhizhanovskaya, Valeria V. and Dongarra, Jack J. and Sloot, Peter M. A.), Springer International Publishing, pp. 614–627, Cham, Jun 2021. [doi] [Bibtex & Downloads]
The OpenPME Problem Solving Environment for Numerical Simulations
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Nesrine Khouzami, Lars Schütze, Pietro Incardona, Landfried Kraaz, Tina Subic, Jeronimo Castrillon, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, "The OpenPME Problem Solving Environment for Numerical Simulations", In Proceeding: International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'21) (Paszynski, Maciej and Kranzlmüller, Dieter and Krzhizhanovskaya, Valeria V. and Dongarra, Jack J. and Sloot, Peter M. A.), Springer International Publishing, pp. 614–627, Cham, Jun 2021. [doi]
Abstract
We introduce OpenPME, the Open Particle-Mesh Environment, a problem solving environment that provides a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for numerical simulations in scientific computing. It is built atop a domain metamodel that is general enough to cover the main types of numerical simulations: simulations using particles, meshes, and hybrid combinations of particles and meshes. Using model-to-model transformations, OpenPME generates code against the state-of-the-art C++ parallel computing library OpenFPM. This effectively lowers the programming barrier and enables users to implement scalable simulation codes for high-performance computing (HPC) systems using high-level abstractions. Plenty of recent research has shown that higher-level abstractions and problem solving environments are well suited to alleviate low-level implementation overhead. We demonstrate this for OpenPME and its compiler on three different test cases—particle-based, mesh-based, and hybrid particle-mesh—showing up to 7-fold reduction in the number of lines of code compared to a direct OpenFPM implementation in C++.
Bibtex
@InProceedings{khouzami_iccs21,
author = {Nesrine Khouzami and Lars Sch{\"u}tze and Pietro Incardona and Landfried Kraaz and Tina Subic and Jeronimo Castrillon and Ivo F. Sbalzarini},
booktitle = {International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS'21)},
title = {The OpenPME Problem Solving Environment for Numerical Simulations},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-77961-0_49},
editor = {Paszynski, Maciej and Kranzlm{\"u}ller, Dieter and Krzhizhanovskaya, Valeria V. and Dongarra, Jack J. and Sloot, Peter M. A.},
isbn = {978-3-030-77961-0},
location = {Krakow (virtual), Poland},
organization = {Springer},
pages = {614--627},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-77961-0_49},
abstract = {We introduce OpenPME, the Open Particle-Mesh Environment, a problem solving environment that provides a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for numerical simulations in scientific computing. It is built atop a domain metamodel that is general enough to cover the main types of numerical simulations: simulations using particles, meshes, and hybrid combinations of particles and meshes. Using model-to-model transformations, OpenPME generates code against the state-of-the-art C++ parallel computing library OpenFPM. This effectively lowers the programming barrier and enables users to implement scalable simulation codes for high-performance computing (HPC) systems using high-level abstractions. Plenty of recent research has shown that higher-level abstractions and problem solving environments are well suited to alleviate low-level implementation overhead. We demonstrate this for OpenPME and its compiler on three different test cases---particle-based, mesh-based, and hybrid particle-mesh---showing up to 7-fold reduction in the number of lines of code compared to a direct OpenFPM implementation in C++.},
address = {Cham},
month = jun,
numpages = {14},
year = {2021},
}Downloads
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2017
- Sven Karol, Tobias Nett, Pietro Incardona, Nesrine Khouzami, Jeronimo Castrillon, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, "A Language and Development Environment for Parallel Particle Methods", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Particle-based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications PARTICLES 2017 (P. Wriggers and M. Bischoff and E. Oñate and D.R.J. Owen and T. Zohdi), Sep 2017. [Bibtex & Downloads]
A Language and Development Environment for Parallel Particle Methods
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Sven Karol, Tobias Nett, Pietro Incardona, Nesrine Khouzami, Jeronimo Castrillon, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, "A Language and Development Environment for Parallel Particle Methods", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Particle-based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications PARTICLES 2017 (P. Wriggers and M. Bischoff and E. Oñate and D.R.J. Owen and T. Zohdi), Sep 2017.
Bibtex
@InProceedings{karol_particles17,
author = {Sven Karol and Tobias Nett and Pietro Incardona and Nesrine Khouzami and Jeronimo Castrillon and Ivo F. Sbalzarini},
title = {A Language and Development Environment for Parallel Particle Methods},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Particle-based Methods. Fundamentals and Applications PARTICLES 2017},
year = {2017},
editor = {P. Wriggers and M. Bischoff and E. O{\~n}ate and D.R.J. Owen and T. Zohdi},
url = {https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Language-and-Development-Environment-for-Paralle-Karol-Nett/2b79bd3836aeb8e2fb2a2b5d9949f9efb1bdfab7?tab=abstract},
month = sep,
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