Accelerated Computing research group

Accelerated Computing

Ben van Werkhoven's research group

SC4RC Keynote presentation: Faster, Greener, Precise Enough: Challenges and Directions in GPU Auto-Tuning

May 05, 2026 - Today at the Sustainability Conference for Responsible Research Computing (SC4RC) hosted at CERN in Geneva, I had the pleasure of delivering...

Accuracy-Aware Mixed-Precision GPU Auto-Tuning

February 2, 2026 - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) has just published our latest research paper, “Accuracy-Aware Mixed-Precisio...

Best Paper Award at ICPP'25: Efficient Construction of Large Search Spaces for Auto-Tuning

September 8, 2025 — I am very excited to share that our paper “Efficient Construction of Large Search Spaces for Auto-Tuning” received the Best Paper Award ...

Stijn Heldens wins ASCI Best PhD Thesis Award 2024

May 23, 2025 – I was honored to receive ASCI’s Best PhD Thesis 2024 Award at CompSys’25! 🏆 Huge thanks to everyone at ASCI for the award and the CompSys25 o...

Best Paper Award at Euro-PAR 2024: Bringing Auto-tuning to HIP

August 28, 2024 — I traveled to Madrid, Spain, to present our paper titled “Bringing Auto-tuning to HIP: Analysis of Tuning Impact and Difficulty on AMD and ...

More speed, more power… less energy? This is how researchers are reducing the energy consumption of computers

Can computers use less energy without compromising performance? That’s what c...

Mixed-Precision GPU Acceleration of RTE-RRTMGP-CPP: Towards Radiative Transfer Simulations on Exascale Supercomputers

September 7, 2026 - Today, our paper titled “Mixed-Precision GPU Acceleration...

How to Maximize your Science per Watt: Energy-Efficient GPU Computing at ISC 2026

GPUs power many of today’s large-scale scientific simulations, data analys...

Research Software Engineers in the Age of GenAI: Same Value, Changing Practice

May 28, 2026 — Today, an article was published that we set out to write at th...

Constraint-aware Optimization in Auto-Tuning

May 25, 2026 — I travelled to New Orleans to present our paper “Constraint-aw...

Automated Algorithm Design for Auto-Tuning Optimizers

May 20, 2026 — Today at the Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems...

Energy-Efficient Computing for GPU Applications

Tutorial at ISC-HPC 2026 Monday, June 22nd Hamburg...