Resources

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Workshops and Talks

Workshops and presentations about performance engineering, GPU programming and general use of Julia in HPC:

2025

Performance portability and high-performance computing with Julia @ deRSE25 (material), by Mosè Giordano, Valentin Churavy. February 27th 2025.

2024

The Julia Language for Productive High-Performance Computing Tutorial @ SC24, by William Godoy, Johannes Blaschke, Rabab Alomairy, Mosè Giordano, Julian Samaroo, Pedro Valero-Lara (tutorial material). November 17th 2024.
Julia and MPI: O ABI, ABI, wherefore art thou ABI? @ EuroMPI/Australia 2024 (slides), by Valentin Churavy. September 25th 2024.
The Second Julia for ORNL Science Workshop, by W F Godoy, P Valero-Lara, H Mankad, S E Hahn, K Teranishi, J S Vetter, R Ferreira da Silva, C Thomas. June 20th 2024.
Julia for HPC @ UCL 2024 workshop (course material), by Carsten Bauer, Mosè Giordano. February 13th-16th, 2024.

2023

GPU Programming with Julia 2023 (material), by Tim Besard, Samuel Omlin. November 22nd-24th, 2023.
Julia for High-Performance Computing @ HLRS (material), by Carsten Bauer, Michael Schlottke-Lakemper. October 24th-27th, 2023.
"Julia for HPC Tutorial" @ Oak Ridge Leardership Facility (OLCF), video by William F Godoy, Gray-Scott code, material, May 24th, 2023.
GPU HPC in Julia - multi-GPU and AD master-class @ Solid Earth in the Exascale Era conference, by Ludovic Räss, Ivan Utkin. May 23rd, 2023.

2022

Julia on A64FX @ Stony Brook University (video), by Valentin Churavy and Mosè Giordano. December 8th, 2022.
Julia for HPC Birds of a Feather session at SuperComputing22 (SC22) (material), by William F. Godoy, Valentin Churavy, Johannes Blaschke, Carsten Bauer, Mosè Giordano, Pedro Valero-Lara. November 15th, 2022.
Julia for High-Performance Computing @ HLRS (material), by Carsten Bauer, Michael Schlottke-Lakemper. September 20th-23rd, 2022.
Julia for High-Performance Computing @ JuliaCon 2022 , (video, material), by William F Godoy, Michael Schlottke-Lakemper, Carsten Bauer, Samuel Omlin, Simon Byrne, Tim Besard, Julian Samaroo, Albert Reuther, Johannes Blaschke, Ludovic Räss. July 26th, 2022.
Julia for ORNL Science Workshop by W F Godoy, P Valero-Lara, P W Fackler, G R Watson, J S Vetter, D Wilkerson, T Ahearn. July 18th 2022.

2021

GPU Programming with Julia @ CSCS/ETH Zurich (video recording), by Tim Besard, Samuel Omlin. November 2nd-5th, 2021.
Advanced Workshop on Julia @ University of Cologne, by Carsten Bauer. March 15th-17th, 2021.
Julia Workshop @ HPC.NRW, by Carsten Bauer. March 2nd-4th, 2021. (second edition, June 22th-24th)

2020 and older

Julia Workshop @ University of Oulu, by Carsten Bauer. February 11th-13th, 2020.
Julia performance workshop, by Valentin Churavy. November, 2019.
Efficient Scientific Computing in Julia — Workshop OIST 2019 (videos: #1 - Introduction, #2 - Performance Engineering, #3 - Open Source and Julia in Science, #4 - GPU Computing in Julia, #5 - Multithreading in Julia), by Valentin Churavy. July, 2019.
Julia Workshop @ University of Cologne, by Carsten Bauer. Fall 2019.
Introduction to Julia @ CSC (material), by Joonas Nättilä. April 17th-19th, 2019.

Papers

Some of the papers using Julia in HPC, including the JuliaParallel software stack:

2025

L. Briand, H. Jourdren, M. Pérache. Julia versus C++ Kokkos for performance portable Cartesian CFD solvers on heterogeneous architectures. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/10943420251341179

2024

P. Valero-Lara, W.F. Godoy, H. Mankad, K. Teranishi, J.S. Vetter, J. Blaschke, J. Schanen, M., 2024, November. JACC: Leveraging HPC Meta-Programming and Performance Portability with the Just-in-Time and LLVM-based Julia Language. In SC24-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (pp. 1955-1966). IEEE. doi:10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00245
S.E. Hahn, P.W. Fackler, W.F. Godoy, K. Maheshwari, Z. Morgan, A.T. Savici, C.M.Hoffmann, P. Valero-Lara, J.S. Vetter, R. Ferreira Da Silva, 2024, November. Integrating ORNL’s HPC and Neutron Facilities with a Performance-Portable CPU/GPU Ecosystem. Best Paper at SC24 XLOOP. In SC24-W: Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (pp. 2107-2117). IEEE. doi:10.1109/SCW63240.2024.00264

2023

W. F. Godoy, P. Valero-Lara, C. Anderson, K. W. Lee, A. Gainaru, R. Ferreira Da Silva, J. S. Vetter. Julia as a unifying end-to-end workflow language on the Frontier exascale system. Best paper at SC23 WORKS. Proceedings of the SC23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis (SC-W '23). doi:10.1145/3624062.3624278, arXiv:2309.10292
W. F. Godoy, P. Valero-Lara, T. E. Dettling, C. Trefftz, I. Jorquera, T. Sheehy, R. G. Miller, M. Gonzalez-Tallada, J. S. Vetter, V. Churavy, Evaluating performance and portability of high-level programming models: Julia, Python/Numba, and Kokkos on exascale nodes, 2023, IEEE IPDPS-W 2023, doi:10.1109/IPDPSW59300.2023.00068, arXiv:2303.06195.

2022

V. Churavy, W. F. Godoy, C. Bauer, H. Ranocha, M. Schlottke-Lakemper, L. Räss, J. Blaschke, M. Giordano, E. Schnetter, S. Omlin, J. S. Vetter, and A. Edelman, Bridging HPC Communities through the Julia Programming Language, 2022, arXiv:2211.02740.
M. Giordano, M. Klöwer and V. Churavy, Productivity meets Performance: Julia on A64FX, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2022, pp. 549-555, doi:10.1109/CLUSTER51413.2022.00072, arXiv:2207.12762.

2021

H. Shang et al., (2022). Large-Scale Simulation of Quantum Computational Chemistry on a New Sunway Supercomputer. arXiv:2207.03711.
W. C. Lin and S. McIntosh-Smith, Comparing Julia to Performance Portable Parallel Programming Models for HPC, 2021 International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS), 2021, pp. 94-105, doi:10.1109/PMBS54543.2021.00016.
A. Rizvi, K. C. Hale, (2021). A Look at Communication-Intensive Performance in Julia. arXiv:2109.14072.
S. Byrne, L. C. Wilcox and V. Churavy, (2021). MPI.jl: Julia bindings for the Message Passing Interface. JuliaCon Proceedings, 1(1), 68, doi:10.21105/jcon.00068.

2020 and older

C. Bauer, Y. Schattner, S. Trebst, and E Berg, Hierarchy of energy scales in an O(3) symmetric antiferromagnetic quantum critical metal: a Monte Carlo study, 2020, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 023008, doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023008.
S. Hunold and S. Steiner, Benchmarking Julia’s Communication Performance: Is Julia HPC ready or Full HPC?, 2020 IEEE/ACM Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS), 2020, pp. 20-25, doi:10.1109/PMBS51919.2020.00008.
J. Regier et al., Cataloging the visible universe through Bayesian inference in Julia at petascale, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Volume 127, 2019, Pages 89-104, doi:10.1016/j.jpdc.2018.12.008, arXiv:1801.10277.

Using Julia in HPC facilities

Community

Get involved with the Julia HPC community:

JuliaHPC monthly call, typically every fourth Tuesday of the month @ 2pm ET, see events in Julia Community calendar for more details.
#hpc on the Julia Slack