PowerSensor3: A Fast and Accurate Power Measurement Tool presented at ISPASS 2025
May 13, 2025 – My co-author Steven van der Vlugt presented our paper titled “PowerSensor3: A Fast and Accurate Open Source Power Measurement Tool” at the In...
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.
Talking about Sustainability in HPC at the VU
May 01, 2025 - Today, I visited the VU Amsterdam for a symposium on the occasion of Professor Henri Bal’s retirement. It was a great honor for me to be invi...
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Awards two RTX 6000 Ada GPUs for Understanding Wildfire-Atmosphere Interaction with GPU Ray-Tracing
February 6, 2025 – Today, our office received an exciting delivery: two NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada GPUs, generously donated by the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program. T...
FAIR Sharing of Data in Autotuning Research
May 7, 2024 — As a result from a collaboration that started at the Lorentz Center Workshop in March 2022, our paper on how to apply the FAIR Principles (Fin...
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...
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...