On December 6th, 2024 at 11.30 am a new appointment of NECSTFridayTalk series titled "A Journey in Designing a Domain-specific Programming Model for Voxel-based Representations" will take place at DEIB NECSTLab Meeting Room (Building 20) and on line by Zoom.

During this talk, we will have, as speaker, Massimiliano Meneghin, Principal Research Scientist at Autodesk Research.

The simulation of physical phenomena is a cornerstone of modern engineering but is often computationally demanding, especially when optimization processes require gradients or Hessians of the simulation. Implementing efficient solvers on advanced hardware, such as multi-GPU systems, presents unique challenges.

In this presentation, we share our ongoing journey in designing a programming model and its open-source domain-specific library tailored for voxel-based computation on dense, sparse, and multi-resolution representations. Our tool empowers users to write simple sequential code that seamlessly scales to optimized multi-GPU applications. Unlike other solutions, our system treats volumetric data structures as first-class citizens.

We will discuss performance results from thermal and fluid simulations, introduce recent advancements in volumetric data structure design, and highlight our collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate a Python interface via the Warp language into our CUDA/C++ library.

The NECSTLab is a DEIB laboratory, with different research lines on advanced topics in computing systems: from architectural characteristics, to hardware-software codesign methodologies, to security and dependability issues of complex system architectures.

Every week, the “NECSTFridayTalk” invites researchers, professionals or entrepreneurs to share their work experiences and projects they are implementing in the “Computing Systems”.