Case Study

High-Performance Clustering Engine

Utah State UniversityArchitectureDistributed SystemsCUDA

Summary

Engineered a benchmarked multi-backend clustering pipeline to raise throughput on high-volume datasets.

Impact

Benchmarked parallel implementations and achieved multi-fold throughput gains for million-point datasets.

Challenge

Balancing algorithm quality, execution speed, and memory pressure across different hardware targets.

Architecture

Compute-intensive clustering with multiple execution backends (CUDA, MPI, OpenMP) behind a shared evaluation harness.

Key Decisions

Standardized benchmark inputs and instrumented each backend to compare tradeoffs objectively before selecting defaults.

Scale Considerations

Optimized memory access patterns and batching strategy to keep performance stable at higher data volumes.

Last updated: February 14, 2026