Kernel Tuner Version 1.0 released!
April 5, 2024 — Finally, the Version 1.0 release is here! The software has been stable and ready for production use for quite some time now and after being i...
Ben van Werkhoven
Ben van Werkhoven is assistant professor at LIACS and head of the Accelerated Computing research group. His research interests lie in High Performance Computing (HPC), software optimization, automatic performance tuning (auto-tuning), energy efficiency, programming models, performance modeling, and the acceleration of scientific applications.
ASTRA KernelKit: GPU-accelerated projectors for computed tomography using CuPy
April 2, 2024 — As a result from a collaboration with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the paper about the ASTRA KernelKit has been published in the...
Energy Efficient GPU Computing tutorial at Supercomputing 2023
November 12, 2023 — I traveled to Denver, CO, together with my colleagues Alessio Sclocco, Stijn Heldens, and Floris-Jan Willemsen, to give a tutorial on En...
Connecting Science & Industry at Bits&Chips event
October 12, 2023 — Ben van Werkhoven gave a talk titled “Automatically optimizing GPU applications for performance and energy efficiency” at the Bits&Chi...
Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming
ACM Computing Surveys has published our paper on optimization techniques for GPU programming. The paper presents the first comprehensive overview of software...
Automatically Exploring GPU Program Design Spaces for Increased Productivity and Sustainability
SIAM CSE23 - SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23) was held in RAI in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from Feb 26 to March 3. I dropped...
Invited-talk on Auto-tuning GPU code for Energy Efficiency
At the HPC Asia 2023 conference, I gave a talk in the Energy and resource efficiency of data centers (EREC) workshop. The talk provides an overview of how w...
Lorentz Center workshop on Generic Autotuning Technology for GPU Applications
March 7-11, 2022 — After preparations that spanned more than a year in total, the week of Lorentz Center workshop is finally here! For a long time, it was un...
Kernel Tuner tutorial at Supercomputing 2021
November 2021 — Together with my colleagues, Alessio Sclocco, Stijn Heldens, and Floris-Jan Willemsen, we travelled to the latest edition of the Supercomputi...