Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Siegfried Benkner
1090 Wien
Room : 6.21
Courses
Winter term 2026
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051030 VU Programming Languages and Concepts
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052511 VU Cloud Computing
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052800 VU Parallel Computing
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500500 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Algorithms and Computing
Summer term 2026
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052800 VU Parallel Computing
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052812 VU High Performance Computing
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500500 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Algorithms and Computing
Winter term 2025
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051030 VU Programming Languages and Concepts
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052511 VU Cloud Computing
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052800 VU Parallel Computing
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053021 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 1
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053031 LP Practical Course: Computer Science 2
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053049 SE Master Seminar
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500500 SE Doctoral Research Seminar - Algorithms and Computing
Publications
Accelerating Graph Neural Networks Using a Novel Computation-Friendly Matrix Compression Format. / Alves, Joao; Moustafa, Samir; Benkner, Siegfried et al.
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2025. 2025.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Deadline-Aware Resource Allocation and Scheduling of Serverless Workloads on Heterogeneous Clusters. / Fritz, Matthias; Benkner, Siegfried; Bajrovic, Enes.
2025. Paper presented at 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2025. , Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
Exploring NCCL Tuning Strategies for Distributed Deep Learning. / Beni, Majid Salimi; Laso, Ruben; Cosenza, Biagio et al.
Proceedings - 2025 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2025. IEEE, 2025. p. 59-62.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Hybrid Reactive Autoscaling for Task-Based Pipelines on Kubernetes. / Nagiyev, Andrey; Bajrovic, Enes; Benkner, Siegfried.
2025. Paper presented at The 16th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science , Shenzen, China.
Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
Optimizing Distributed Deep Learning Training by Tuning NCCL. / Beni, Majid Salimi; Laso, Ruben; Cosenza, Biagio et al.
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2025. ed. / Damjan Harisch. Wien: EuroCC Austria, 2025. p. 38.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Provisioning of Kubernetes Clusters for Task-Based Python Applications. / Nagiyev, Andrey; Bajrovic, Enes; Benkner, Siegfried.
2025. Paper presented at The 31st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2025) , Hefei, China.
Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
Unveiling the Energy Cost of Parallel Performance Portability in C++. / Laso, Ruben; Benkner, Siegfried; Hunold, Sascha.
Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting 2025. ed. / Damjan Harisch. Wien: EuroCC Austria, 2025. p. 9.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Python to Kubernetes: A Programming and Resource Management Framework for Computeand Data-intensive Applications. / Nagiyev, Andrey; Bajrovic, Enes; Benkner, Siegfried.
2024. Paper presented at IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2024), Belgrade, Serbia, October 2024., Belgrad, Serbia.
Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
Experiences in Architectural Design and Deployment of eHealth and Environmental Applications for Cloud-Edge Continuum. / Aral, Atakan; Esposito, Antonio; Nagiyev, Andrey et al.
Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA-2023: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2023), Volume 3. ed. / Leonard Barolli. Cham: Springer, 2023. p. 136-145 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 655).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
A Novel Triangular Space-Filling Curve for Cache-Oblivious In-Place Transposition of Square Matrices. / Alves, Joao Nuno Ferreira; Russo, Luís M. S.; Francisco, Alexandre P. et al.
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Miami, USA, May 2023. 2023.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
The OCR-Vx experience: lessons learned from designing and implementing a task-based runtime system. / Dokulil, Jiri; Benkner, Siegfried (Corresponding author).
In: Journal of Supercomputing: an international journal of supercomputing design, analysis and use, Vol. 78, 07.2022, p. 12344-12379.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Matching Program Implementations and Heterogeneous Computing Systems. / Sandrieser, Martin; Benkner, Siegfried.
2021. Paper presented at The 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT), Guangzhou, China.
Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
Task-Based Performance Portability in HPC: Maximising long-term investments in a fast evolving, complex and heterogeneous HPC landscape. / Aumage, Olivier; Carpenter, Paul; Benkner, Siegfried.
2021. Paper presented at European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC), Unknown.
Publications: Contribution to conference › Paper › Peer Reviewed
A Benchmark Set of Highly-efficient CUDA and OpenCL Kernels and its Dynamic Autotuning with Kernel Tuning Toolkit. / Petrovic, Filip; Strelak, David; Hozzova, Jana et al.
In: Future Generation Computer Systems: the international journal of grid computing, Vol. 108, 07.2020, p. 161-177.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
NUMA-aware CPU core allocation in cooperating dynamic applications. / Dokulil, Jiri; Benkner, Siegfried.
2020 IEEE 34th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. p. 950-957 9150478.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Automatic placement of tasks to NUMA nodes in iterative applications. / Dokulil, Jiri; Benkner, Siegfried.
2020 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, PDP 2020. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020. p. 192-195 9092212.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Programming Languages for Data-Intensive HPC Applications: a Systematic Mapping Study. / Amarala, Vasco; Norberto, Beatriz; Goulao, Miguel et al.
In: Parallel Computing, Vol. 91, 102584, 03.2020.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed
Exploring the performance of fine-grained synchronization and data exchange across process boundaries on modern multi-core architectures. / Dokulil, Jiri; Benkner, Siegfried.
Computational Science - ICCS 2019 - 19th International Conference, 2019, Proceedings. ed. / João M.F. Rodrigues; Pedro J.S. Cardoso; Jânio Monteiro; Roberto Lam; Valeria V. Krzhizhanovskaya; Michael H. Lees; Jack J. Dongarra; Peter M.A. Sloot. Cham: Springer, 2019. p. 514-520 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11540 LNCS).
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Big Data Processing, Analysis and Applications in Mobile Cellular Networks. / Brdar, Sanja; Novovic, Olivera; Grujic, Nastasija et al.
High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications. ed. / Johanna Kolodzej; Horacio Gonzalez-Velez. Springer, 2019. p. 163-185 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11400).
Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed
Pipeline Patterns on top of Task-Based Runtimes. / Bajrovic, Enes; Benkner, Siegfried; Dokulil, Jiri.
Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies - 19th International Conference, PDCAT 2018, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Hong Shen; Yunsick Sung; Jong Hyuk Park; Hui Tian. 2019. p. 100-110.
Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed
Projects
TROCI: Towards Resilient Operation of Critical Infrastructures
Aral, A. (Project Lead), Benkner, S. (Co-Lead), Ahmed, H. (Project Coordinator), Salauddin, M. (Cooperation Partner) & Delinschi, D. (Cooperation Partner)
1/03/24 → 28/02/27
Project: Research funding
Innovative Algorithms for Applications on European Exascale Supercomputers
Benkner, S. (Project Lead) & Estevao Fidalgo Ferreira Alves, J. N. (Project Staff)
1/02/24 → 31/01/25
Project: Research cooperation
Offline and Online Autotuning of Parallel Applications
Benkner, S. (Project Lead) & Hunold, S. (Project Coordinator)
1/07/21 → 28/02/25
Project: Research funding
Dynamic Runtime System For Futre Parallel Architectures
Benkner, S. (Project Lead) & Dokulil, J. (Co-Lead)
1/04/17 → 31/03/21
Project: Research funding
AutoTune
Benkner, S. (Project Lead), Bajrovic, E. (Scientific Project Staff) & Sandrieser, M. (Scientific Project Staff)
15/10/11 → 14/04/15
Project: Research funding
VPH-Share
Benkner, S. (Project Lead), Kaniovskyi, Y. (Scientific Project Staff) & Borckholder, C. (Scientific Project Staff)
1/03/11 → 31/05/15
Project: Research funding
PEPPHER
Benkner, S. (Project Lead), Pllana, S. (Project Coordinator), Sandrieser, M. (Scientific Project Staff) & Bajrovic, E. (Scientific Project Staff)
1/01/10 → 31/12/12
Project: Research funding
My Science
Benkner, S. (Project Lead) & Pllana, S. (Co-Lead)
1/01/09 → 30/06/10
Project: Research funding
ANEURIST
Benkner, S. (Project Lead), Köhler, M. (Scientific Project Staff) & Kaniovskyi, Y. (Scientific Project Staff)
1/01/06 → 31/12/09
Project: Research funding
Talks
Accelerating Graph Neural Networks
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
CBM4Scale: Compressed Binary Matrices for Scaling
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Runtime Support for In-Situ Data Analytics
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Future Directions in Programming Support for Parallel and Distributed Systems
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Programming Support for Future Parallel and Distributed Systems
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Programming Support for Future Parallel Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
OCR Developments at the University of Vienna
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
OCR-Vx An alternative Implementation of OCR
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Towards an Adaptive Data Analytics Framework
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Implementing the Open Community Runtime for Shared-Memory and Distributed-Memory Systems
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Tuning OpenCL Applications with the Periscope Tuning Framework
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Programming Support for Future Parallel Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Recent and Future Activities in High-Performance Computing and Scientific Data Management
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Recent and Future Activities in HPC and Scientific Data Management
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
VPH-Share - Collaborative Platform for Medical Research
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The AutoTune Project
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Introduction to MuCoCoS-2014
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Automatic Performance Tuning of Pipeline Patterns for Heterogeneous Parallel Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Automatic Performance Tuning for Parallel Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The European Autotune Project
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Programming and Tuning Support for Future Parallel Systems
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
A Cloud-Based Collaborative Platform for Medical Research
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Programming Support for Heterogeneous Many-core Architectures
Benkner, S. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
An Overview of the European AutoTune Project
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Performance Portability and Programmability for Heterogeneous Many-core Architectures
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Performance Portability and Programmability for Heterogeneous Many-core Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Hybrid Execution - Easier Than Ever
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
High-Level Support for Pipeline Parallelism on Manycore Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Programmability and Performance Portability for Heterogeneous Many-Core Systems
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The PEPPHER Component System and Coordination Language for Performance-Portable Programming of Heterogeneous Multi-/Manycore Systems
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
High-Level Language Support for Heterogeneous Manycore Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Language Support for Pipelined Applications on Heterogeneous Many-Core Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Improving Programmability of Heterogeneous Many-Core Systems via Explicit Platform Descriptions
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Autotuning for Heterogeneous Many-core Architectures
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Data Services - @neurIST and beyond
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Programmability and Portability for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Programming Support for Heterogeneous Parallel Systems
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Programming Support for Hybrid Parallel Systems
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The @neurIST Biomedical Grid Infrastructure
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Introduction to High Performance Computing
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Integrated Biomedical Grid Infrastructure
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Virtualizing Scientific Applications and Data Sources as Grid Services
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The Vienna Grid Environment
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Overview of the @neurIST Grid Infrastructure
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The @neurIST Project
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Client Infrastructure for @neurIST Grid Services
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
High-Level Support for Scientific Application Development
Benkner, S. (Keynote speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The @neurIST compute service architecture
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The @neurIST Grid Infrastructure for Biomedical Data and Compute Services
Benkner, S. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Grid Data Services Architecture
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
A Service-oriented Grid Infrastructure for Biomedical Data and Compute Services
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Supporting SLA Negotiation for Grid-based Medical Simulation Services
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Semantic Description of Data Services within the @neurIST Grid Architecture
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
A Generic QoS Infrastructure for Grid Web Applications and Services
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
The Architecture of @neurIST Data Services
Benkner, S. (Speaker)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other
Parallel Cholesky Factorization on Clusters of SMPs
Benkner, S. (Contributor)
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other