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3. April 2024

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Taskflow: A General-purpose Task-parallel Programming System to Cadence Design Systems.

9. Mar 2024

Wisconsin Gov. gave final approval to fund a New College of Engineering building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison!

14. Feb 2024

Our research group has four papers accepted by 2024 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)! Thank you for all your hard work!

10. Feb 2024

One paper is accepted by 2024 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)!

9. Feb 2024

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Taskflow: A General-purpose Task-parallel Programming System to FlexCompute Inc.

20. Jan 2024

Prof. Huang gave a guest lecture, Taskflow: A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Computing System to Prof. Tsung-Yi Ho’s design automation course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

29. Dec

Prof. Huang is giving an invited talk, Parallel and Heterogeneous Timing Analysis: Partition, Algorithm, and System, to 2024 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD)!

20. Nov 2023

Cheng-Hsian’s paper, An Efficient Task-parallel Pipeline Programming Framework, is accepted by HPC-Asia!

12. Oct 2023

Prof. Huang gave a talk, A General-purpose Task-parallel Programming System, in the China University of Petroleum!

12. Oct 2023

Dian-Lun Lin gave a talk, A Task Graph-based Programming System for CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Computing, in Berkeley Lab (GPUs for Science Day)!

30. Aug 2023

We are grateful for a new NSF grant to support co-design of chiral quantum photonic devices (DMR-2235276)!

28. Aug 2023

Congratulations for Chih-Chun Chang’s and Shiu Jiang’s papers winning the 2023 HPEC Graph Challenge Innovation Award!

21. Aug 2023

Our research group moved to the ECE Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison!

27 July 2023

Our special session proposal, Accelerating EDA Algorithms with Heterogeneous Parallelism, is accepted by the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Computer-aided Design (ICCAD)!

18. June 2023

Prof. Huang received the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award at 2023 Design Automation Conference!

18. June 2023

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Quantum Circuit Simulation with Incrementality, in 2023 NSF FuSe Workshop at the University at Buffalo

14. June 2023

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Intelligent High-performance Computing, to TUM (Technical University of Munich)

10. April 2023

Prof. Huang gave a talk, A General-purpose Task-parallel Programming System, to Cruise.

13. Feb 2023

Congratulations for Dian-Lun’s paper to appear in 2023 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)!

18. Dec 2022

Our incremental quantum circuit simulator is accepted by 2023 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) as a regular paper!

19. Nov 2022

Congratulations for Guannan Guo’s paper to appear in 2023 IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) as a regular paper (25% acceptance rate)!

2. Nov 2022

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Performance Portability and Optimization using Machine Learning, to Utah-PNNL joint seminar.

22. Oct 2022

Congratulations for Dian-Lun Lin winning the Second Place in ACM Student Research Competitiong at 2022 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT)!

15. Sep 2022

We are grateful for a new NSF grant to support building task-parallel programming ecosystem for modern scientific computing (TI-2229304)!

2. Sep 2022

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Programming System for Building High-performance CAD Applications, to Google X (The Moonshot Factory).

10. Aug 2022

Prof. Huang gave a talk, A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System, to AMD Vivado Team.

20. July 2022

Prof. Huang gave a talk about our research on GPU-acceleration for circuit simulation to 2022 International Workshop on Logic & Synthesis (IWLS).

16. July 2022

Prof. Huang received ACM SIGDA Meritorious Service Award, presented at the 2022 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference at San Francisco.

26. June 2022

We are grateful for a new NSF grant to support our high-performance computing (HPC) research (OAC-2209957)!

21. June 2022

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Intelligent Heterogeneous Computing, to AMD Research.

16. June 2022

Dian-Luan’s paper is accepted by 2022 ACM International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)! This year is very competitive with only 27% acceptance rate.

23. May 2022

Thank you, Google Summer of Code, for supporting our Taskflow project to enhance the pipeline programming model! Project details can be found at here (contributor: Xiong Zhicheng).

14. April 2022

We are grateful for receiving an NSF REU Grant to support undergraduate research on parallel computing! Please email Prof. Huang if you (an undergraduate in the University of Utah) are interested.

4. April 2022

Cheng-Hsiang’s paper is accepted by 2022 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) Late Breaking Result (LBR) Session (20% acceptance rate)!

1. April 2022

PhD students have all received summer intern offers (Cheng-Hsiang Chiu and Che Chang with Intel, Wan-Luan Lee with Synopsys, and Dian-Luan Lin with Nvidia Research)! We are grateful for the support of our industrial partners.

15. March 2022

Prof. Huang received the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers, hosted by the Technical University of Munich (TUM)!

16. Feb 2022

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Intelligent Heterogeneous Computing, in the ECE Distinguished Lecture at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

8. Feb 2022

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Intelligent Heterogeneous Computing, in the ECE Department at the University of Minnesota.

11. Jan 2022

We are grateful for receiving the prestigious NSF CAREER Award to support our research on parallel and heterogeneous circuit simulation algorithms (CAREER-2144523)!

24. Dec 2021

Dian-Lun’s paper, Accelerating Large Sparse Neural Network Inference using GPU Task Graph Parallelism, is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)!

17. Nov 2021

We are grateful for a hardware donation of two RTX 6000 GPUs by Nvidia to support our GPU computing research!

13. Oct 2021

Prof. Huang’s paper, A Provably Good and Practically Efficient Algorithm for Common Path Pessimism Removal in Large Designs, is accepted by IEEE TCAD!

6. Oct 2021

Prof. Huang will give a talk, A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Graph Programming System, at the 2021 Intel eXtreme Performance User Group (IXPUG) Conference.

6. Oct 2021

McKay and Luke’s paper, Taskflow-San: Sanitizing Erroneous Control Flow in Taskflow Programs, is accepted by 2021 IEEE ESPM2!

4. Oct 2021

Prof. Huang’s paper, Energy Efficiency of Inference Algorithms for Medical Datasets: A Green AI study, is accepted by Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)!

2. Oct 2021

Prof. Huang’s paper, TFProf.: Prof.iling Large Taskflow Programs with Modern D3 and C++, is accepted by 2021 IEEE ProTools!

24. Sep 2021

Prof. Huang and Dian-Lun’s talk, cudaFlow: A Modern C++ Programming Model for GPU Task Graph Parallelism, is accepted by 2021 C++ Conference.

14. Sep 2021

We have one paper accepted by 2022 IEEE/ACM ASPDAC!

1. Sep 2021

We have three papers accepted by 2021 IEEE/ACM ICCAD!

17. Aug 2021

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Taskflow: A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Computing System to Evangeline F. Y. Young’s research group at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

9. Aug 2021

Our paper, A High-Performance Heterogeneous Critical Path Analysis Framework, is accepted by 2021 IEEE HPEC!

6. Aug 2021

Our paper, Taskflow: A Lightweight Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Graph Computing System, is accepted by 2021 IEEE TPDS!

16. July 2021

We are grateful for a new NumFOCUS Grant r2 to support developing novel GPU algorithms in Taskflow!

9. July 2021

Yasin Zamani gave a talk, General Heterogeneous Framework for Path-based Timing Analysis to Cadence.

9. July 2021

We are grateful for a new NSF grant to support our heterogeneous computing research (CCF-2126672)!

24. June 2021

Our paper, An Experimental Study of SYCL Task Graph Parallelism for Large-Scale Machine Learning Workloads, is accepted by 2021 AMTE at Euro-Par.

11. June 2021

Prof. Huang gave a talk, GPU-accelerated Static Timing Analysis to Nvidia Research.

24. May 2021

Guannan Guo starts his summer internship in IBM at Poughkeepsie New York, NY.

17. May 2021

Dian-Lun Lin starts his summer internship in Nvidia Research at Austin, TX.

17. May 2021

Cheng-Hsiang Chiu starts his summer internship in Cadence Design Systems at Austin, TX.

14. May 2021

We are grateful for a new NumFOCUS Grant r1 to support developing sanitizing algorithms in Taskflow!

10. May 2021

Prof. Huang gave a talk, A Lightweight Heterogeneous Task Programming System with Control Flow, to CPPNow.

25. April 2021

Our paper, Efficient GPU Computation using Task Graph Parallelism, is accepted by 2021 Euro-Par.

20. April 2021

Prof. Huang servces on the track chair of 2021 IEEE/ACM ICCAD.

18. April 2021

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Machine Learning System-enabled GPU Acceleration for EDA, to 2021 VLSI-DAT.

10. April 2021

Prof. Huang gave a talk, GPU-accelerated Static Timing Analysis and Beyond, 2021 GTC.

21. March 2021

Prof. Huang gave a talk, GPU-Accelerated Static Timing Analysis, to UCSC EDA Seminar.

20. March 2021

Prof. Huang servces on the chair of 2021 ICCAD CAD Contest.

20. March 2021

Guannan and Prof. Huang receive the Best Paper Award in 2021 TAU Workshop.

30. Oct 2020

Prof. Huang gave a talk, A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System, to CIE/USA-GNYC

25. Oct 2020

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming in C++, to C++ Programmer Meetup

24. Oct 2020

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming in C++, to 2020 MUC++ Meetup

20. Oct 2020

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming in C++, to 2020 CppCon

20. Oct 2020

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming in C++, to CppIndia

24. Sep 2020

Our paper, An Efficient Work-Stealing Scheduler for Task Dependency Graph, is accepted by 2020 IEEE ICPADS.

6. Sep 2020

One paper is accepted by 2020 IEEE/ACM ASPDAC.

5. Sep 2020

Our paper, OpenTimer v2: A New Parallel Incremental Timing Analysis Engine, is accepted by 2021 IEEE TCAD.

31. Aug 2020

Dian-Lun Lin’s machine learning paper won the Champion Award of 2020 HPEC Graph Challenge.

14. July 2020

Three papers are accepted by 2020 IEEE/ACM ICCAD.

20. June 2020

Our paper, Cpp-Taskflow: A General-purpose Parallel Task Programming System at Scale, is accepted by 2021 IEEE TCAD.

17. April 2020

Prof. Huang serves on the program committee of 2020 IEEE/ACM ICCAD.

17. April 2020

Prof. Huang serves on the program committee of 2020 IEEE ICCD.

17. April 2020

Prof. Huang serves on the program committee of 2020 IEEE/ACM ASPDAC.

30. March 2020

Prof. Huang gave a talk, A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System at Scale, to the Future Technology Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

10. Feb 2020

One paper is accepted by 2020 IEEE/ACM DAC.

9. Jan 2020

Prof. Huang serves on the co-chair of 2020 ICCAD CAD Contest.

7. Nov 2019

Prof. Huang gave a talk, Growing Your Open-Source Projects, at 2019 WOSET.

24. Oct 2019

Taskflow received the 2nd Place in 2019 ACM Multimedia Conference Open-Source Software Competition.

6. Aug 2019

Prof. Huang serves on chair of 2019 SIGDA CADathlon International Programming Contest.

15. July 2019

One paper is accepted by 2019 ACM Multimedia Conference.

2. July 2019

One paper is accepted by 2019 IEEE HPEC.

1. July 2019

Prof. Huang launches the research group in the University of Utah.