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title	tags	authors	affiliations	date	bibliography
QUICKLB: a quick loadbalancer for unbalanced HPC applications	Python Fortran Load balancing Fluid dynamics High performance computing	name orcid affiliation Victor Azizi 1 name orcid affiliation Gijs van den oord 1 name orcid affiliation Mohamad Fathi 2 name orcid affiliation Stefan Hickel 2	name index Netherlands Escience Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1 name index Aerodynamics Group, TU Delft, The Netherlands 2	31 May 2022	paper.bib

Summary

QUICKLB is a quick loadbalancer for unbalanced HPC applications. QUICKLB is a very efficient library that sacrifices optimality for speed. It shines in distributed applications that have unpredictable unbalanced computational peaks in their domains. The loadbalancer is written in Fortran with a Python wrapper to call it. Thus it is suitable for both Python and Fortran HPC applications. The loadbalancer can be "bolted on" already existing applications, by pointing it to the data and compute functions, QUICKLB will then take care of the computation offloading.

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