2024 R&D 100 Award

Orchestrating multiple programming platforms

IRIS provides task-based programming and execution models. A task is portable across all the available programming platforms and can be run on any accelerator in the system.

Flexible task scheduling and portable applications

IRIS portable tasks enable flexible task scheduling across different accelerators and application portability across different hardware configurations.

Write once, build once, run anywhere

Programmers do not need to re-compile and even re-link their applications for different target architectures. IRIS automatically discovers all the available accelerators and their programming platforms in the target system at run time, and runs the applications on top of them.

Customizable plugins

Programmers can write their own new custom scheduling policies, task types and their handlers, and event-driven visualization tools and plug them into IRIS.

Multiple languages support

IRIS applications can be written in C, C++, Fortran, and/or Python.

iris_task task;
iris_task_create(&task);
iris_task_kernel(task, "foobar", 1, &size);
iris_task_submit(task, iris_gpu);

iris::Task task;
task.kernel("foobar", 1, &size);
task.submit(iris::iris_gpu);

INTEGER(8) :: TASK
CALL IRIS_TASK_CREATE(TASK, IERROR)
CALL IRIS_TASK_KERNEL(TASK, "foobar", 1, SIZE, IERROR)
CALL IRIS_TASK_SUBMIT(TASK, IRIS_GPU, IERROR)

task = iris.task()
task.kernel("foobar", 1, [size])
task.submit(iris.iris_gpu)

HPC + AI + Quantum

An IRIS application can be a seamless mixture of HPC, AI (PyTorch, TensorFlow), and Quantum (Qiskit).

The IRIS Programming Guide

Tutorials

IRIS mini workshop 2022

January 2022, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

IRIS mini workshop 2021

January 2021, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

Tiling Framework for Heterogeneous Computing of Matrix-Based Tiled Algorithms PPoPP ExHET 2023

Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Mohammad Alaul Haque Monil, Pedro Valero-Lara, Frank Y. Liu, Jeffrey S. Vetter

@inproceedings{exhet2023,
  author    = {Miniskar, Narasinga Rao and Mohammad, Alaul Haque Monil and Pedro, Valero-Lara and Liu, Frank and Vetter, Jeffrey S},
  title     = {Tiling Framework for Heterogeneous Computing of Matrix-Based Tiled Algorithms},
  booktitle = {The 2nd International Workshop on Extreme Heterogeneity Solutions},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2023},
}

Adrastea: An Efficient FPGA Design Environment for Heterogeneous Scientific Computing and Machine Learning SMC 2022

Aaron R. Young, Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Frank Liu, Willem Blokland, Jeffrey S. Vetter

@inproceedings{young2023adrastea,
  title={Adrastea: An Efficient FPGA Design Environment for Heterogeneous Scientific Computing and Machine Learning},
  author={Young, Aaron R and Miniskar, Narasinga Rao and Liu, Frank and Blokland, Willem and Vetter, Jeffrey S},
  booktitle={Accelerating Science and Engineering Discoveries Through Integrated Research Infrastructure for Experiment, Big Data, Modeling and Simulation: 22nd Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference, SMC 2022, Virtual Event, August 23--25, 2022, Revised Selected Papers},
  pages={227--243},
  year={2023},
  organization={Springer Nature Switzerland Cham}
}

LaRIS: Targeting Portability and Productivity for LAPACK Codes on Extreme Heterogeneous Systems by Using IRIS RSDHA 2022

Mohammad Alaul Haque Monil, Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Frank Y. Liu, Jeffrey S. Vetter, Pedro Valero-Lara

@inproceedings{monil2022laris,
  title={LaRIS: Targeting Portability and Productivity for LAPACK Codes on Extreme Heterogeneous Systems by Using IRIS},
  author={Monil, Mohammad Alaul Haque and Miniskar, Narasinga Rao and Liu, Frank Y and Vetter, Jeffrey S and Valero-Lara, Pedro},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE/ACM Redefining Scalability for Diversely Heterogeneous Architectures Workshop (RSDHA)},
  pages={12--21},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE}
}

Iris-blas: Towards a performance portable and heterogeneous blas library HiPC 2022

Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Mohammad Alaul Haque Monil, Pedro Valero-Lara, Frank Liu, Jeffrey S. Vetter

@inproceedings{miniskar2022iris,
  title={Iris-blas: Towards a performance portable and heterogeneous blas library},
  author={Miniskar, Narasinga Rao and Monil, Mohammad Alaul Haque and Valero-Lara, Pedro and Liu, Frank and Vetter, Jeffrey S},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE 29th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC)},
  pages={256--261},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE}
}

A Hierarchical Task Scheduler for Heterogeneous Computing ISC High Performance 2021

Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Frank Liu, Aaron R. Young, Dwaipayan Chakraborty, Jeffrey S. Vetter

@inproceedings{miniskar2021hierarchical,
  title={A Hierarchical Task Scheduler for Heterogeneous Computing},
  author={Miniskar, Narasinga Rao and Liu, Frank and Young, Aaron R and Chakraborty, Dwaipayan and Vetter, Jeffrey S},
  booktitle={High Performance Computing: 36th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2021, Virtual Event, June 24--July 2, 2021, Proceedings},
  pages={57--76},
  year={2021},
  organization={Springer International Publishing Cham}
}

Toward Performance Portable Programming for Heterogeneous Systems on a Chip: A Case Study with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC HPEC 2021

Anthony Cabrera, Seth Hitefield, Jungwon Kim, Seyong Lee, Narasinga Rao Miniskar, Jeffrey S. Vetter

@INPROCEEDINGS{9622794,
  author={Cabrera, Anthony and Hitefield, Seth and Kim, Jungwon and Lee, Seyong and Miniskar, Narasinga Rao and Vetter, Jeffrey S.},
  booktitle={2021 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC)},
  title={Toward Performance Portable Programming for Heterogeneous Systems on a Chip: A Case Study with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC},
  year={2021},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-7},
  doi={10.1109/HPEC49654.2021.9622794}
}

IRIS: A Portable Runtime System Exploiting Multiple Heterogeneous Programming Systems HPEC 2021

Jungwon Kim, Seyong Lee, Beau Johnston, Jeffrey S. Vetter

@inproceedings{Kim:2021:IRIS,
 author={Jungwon Kim and Seyong Lee and Beau Johnston and Jeffrey S. Vetter},
 title={{IRIS: A Portable Runtime System Exploiting Multiple Heterogeneous Programming Systems}},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference},
 series={HPEC "21},
 year={2021},
 pages={1-8},
 doi={10.1109/HPEC49654.2021.9622873}
}

If you use IRIS, please cite the following paper:

IRIS: A Portable Runtime System Exploiting Multiple Heterogeneous Programming Systems HPEC 2021

Jungwon Kim, Seyong Lee, Beau Johnston, Jeffrey S. Vetter

@inproceedings{Kim:2021:IRIS,
 author={Jungwon Kim and Seyong Lee and Beau Johnston and Jeffrey S. Vetter},
 title={{IRIS: A Portable Runtime System Exploiting Multiple Heterogeneous Programming Systems}},
 booktitle={Proceedings of the 25th IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference},
 series={HPEC "21},
 year={2021},
 pages={1-8},
 doi={10.1109/HPEC49654.2021.9622873}
}