TTG Apptimizer is a universal autotuning toolkit that can dramatically increase the speed of computational software through automatic optimization. It allows software to optimize itself during runtime for hybrid CPU/GPU systems, providing a 1.5-3x performance increase with just a few lines of code added. TTG Labs offers licensing of the toolkit along with porting and support services to help customers save time and money through higher performing computations.

1. TTG Apptimizer
Dramatic increase
in the speed of computations
Pavel Ivanov, PhD
Co-founder and Deputy CEO
p_ivanov@ttgLabs.com

2. About ttgLabs
● Founded: 2010
● Focus: optimization of computational software
● Products and services
● TTG Apptimizer toolkit for automatic software optimization
● ad hoc projects on speeding up customer software
● Customers: Russian and European companies
● Team:
● leading experts in software optimization
● 25+ years of experience in parallel computing, high
performance computing (HPC) and optimization
● Skolkovo resident: from 2012 (IT cluster)

3. Businesses worldwide struggle to speed up
their computations
● Speed of computations is critical in many industries
● financial
● machinery and metal working
● oil & gas
● biotechnology
● medicine
● …
● Potential solutions
● Buy/update the hardware
● Develop new algorithms/software
● Improve/optimize the existing software

4. Graphics cards, the most promising solution
● Different types of processors
● Massive computations are performed on graphics
accelerators (GPUs)
● 3072 cores (NVIDIA GM200)
vs 18 cores (Intel Xeon E5-2699v3)
● at least 10-fold performance gain
● much better energy efficiency
● much less $$ for 1 GFLOPS

5. Graphics cards, the most promising solution. But…
…Great Possibilities translate into Big Problems
• Performance is far below expectations
• Endless hardware upgrades
• Hardware efficiency could be much better

6. A challenge the enterprises face worldwide
● Real performance is much beyond the expectations
● 10-30% performance gain rather than 10+ fold
THE REASON: the software is not optimized

7. Apps in a hybrid world. A two-edged sword
• HMPP (Caps enterprise)
• PGI Accelerator
(NVIDIA/The Portland
Group)
• Libra (GpuSystems)
• Xcelerit SDK (Xcelerit)
• StarPU
• …
• HMPP Autotuning
Directives
• Intel ArBB
Development/Porting Optimization
Mostly
solved
Mostly
open … so far

8. Let your software optimize itself !
• Manually
• Time- and resource-
consuming
• An endless game
• Software optimizes
itself in runtime
• Extremely cost-effective
• Once and forever
• Minimal changes in the
source code
Traditional approach Our approach: AUTOTUNING
Multifold performance gain.
AUTOMATICALLY !

9. • HMPP (Caps enterprise)
• PGI Accelerator
(NVIDIA/The Portland
Group)
• Libra (GpuSystems)
• Xcelerit SDK (Xcelerit)
• StarPU
• …
• HMPP Autotuning
Directives
• Intel ArBB
Development/Porting Optimization
Mostly
Solved
NOW SOLVED !
TTG Apptimizer
Apps in a hybrid world. A two-edged sword

10. TTG Apptimizer: a universal autotuning toolkit

11. TTG Apptimizer: as simple as 1-2-3
RESULTS for GPU-oriented software
● For highly optimized SW – 10% performance increase
● In general – 1,5- to 3-fold performance increase
● Add several lines to your source code
● Compile with TTG Apptimizer
● Run
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Traditional approach (per year)
TTG Apptimizer (once)
Video Streams. Optimization efforts, days

12. TTG Apptimizer: customer benefits
● Saving time and money by 10-fold (at least)
● Dramatic boost in software performance
● Shorter time-to-market for computations-
driven products and services
● Less demands for developers’ skills
● Computations can be performed in the cloud

13. Potential applications
● Simulations in geophysics and industrial geology
● Engineering models and industrial design
● machinery and metal working
● power production
● Biotechnology and medicine
● bioinformatics and genomics
● drug design
● Video processing
● telemedicine
● video surveillance
● video analytics
● Big Data analysis

14. Projects (proof of concept)
● Commercial projects for Russian and European customers
● engineering models
● thermal physics
● simulations in life science
● molecular dynamics
● image processing
● video processing

15. ttgLabs value proposition (1/2)
● If the customer uses in-house developed software, we
offer
● licensing of TTG Apptimizer toolkit with full technical
support
OR
● porting the company’s source code to hybrid
platforms using
● embedding our autotuning technology
● deployment assistance
● technical support
● training and consulting

16. ttgLabs value proposition (2/2)
● If the customer uses or is ready to use an open source
software we offer
● porting the open source code to hybrid platforms
● embedding our autotuning technology
● full deployment
● comprehensive technical support (bug fixing,
software upgrades,...)
● training and consulting

17. We are looking for partnerships with
● Customers from various industries provided
● computations are business-critical
● the company already uses OR is potentially ready to use
GPUs/hybrid systems (on premise or in the cloud)
● the source code is at place or potentially can be available for
optimization
● Vendors of computations-intensive apps
● that use or are ready to port their software to
GPUs/hybrid systems
● Local resellers/system integrators
● focused on computations-intensive solutions,
software and/or services

18. Requests for further information are welcome
ttgLabs.com
Pavel Ivanov
p_ivanov@ttgLabs.com
+7 903 121 1420