David Kaeli joined Northeastern in 1993, after spending 12 years at IBM, with 7 years at the T.J. Watson Research Center. He is a COE Distinguished Professor for the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. His lab, the Northeastern University Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (NUCAR), focuses on software, applications, building tools, and accelerating AI. Some of the many high performance computing related projects and committees he is part of include the iSuper Impact Engine team; AI Jumpstart; the Research, Education, and Outreach committee at the MGHPCC; and the Research Computing Advisory Committee.
David mentioned a new open-source infrastructure that will allow users to instrument any HIP program running on AMD GPUs. The tool is called Luthier, and the papers have only been recently accepted for publication. In the meantime, if you’re interested in learning more, you can find more information on the Luthier GitHub repository.
While David has been an avid High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster user for research, he has also extensively used the cluster in his courses. He is very passionate about providing hands-on experience, especially in HPC and Computer Architecture, exposing his students to Northeastern’s Discovery and Explorer Clusters, as well as the MGHPCC. David finds that he prefers to have his students work in the command line, rather than Open OnDemand, so they can really learn what kind of hardware resources they need. The courses partition has been helpful for him in ensuring that students have the resources that they need. He advises instructors looking to get started using the HPC cluster for their courses, reach out to the RC team early, and let the team help you get things set up a semester early.
To learn more about using the HPC Cluster in your course, you can review our Courses FAQ. You can also contact the team in whatever way is most convenient for you: send an email, join Office Hours for a quick (10-15 min) chat, schedule a consultation, or submit a ticket using the RC ServiceNow catalog.
