Varuni Sastry 0001

dblp:339/8475-1 · also Varuni K. Sastry 0001, Varuni Kumar Sastry · DBLP profile ↗
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3ranked-venue papers
0as first author
3since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0007-0366-4186ORCID · verified

Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several

Systems, architecture and hardware · 3 · 3 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
2 papers
High-performance computing · 82% GPUs and heterogeneous computing · 18%
Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Generative modeling · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model
0.912025
AERIS: Argonne Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions · SC 2025
High-performance computing
scientific computing systems
0.812024
MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization · SC 2024
High-performance computing › large-scale training
large-scale distributed training
0.312025
AERIS: Argonne Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions · SC 2025
GPUs and heterogeneous computing
GPU and heterogeneous computing
0.212024
MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization · SC 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

window parallelism · 1.7swin diffusion transformer · 1.7sequence parallelism · 1.7pipeline parallelism · 1.7multimodal generative models · 0.8mixed precision · 0.8direct preference optimization · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Beyond Throughput: Performance and Energy Insights of LLM Inference Across AI Accelerators
Giacomo Brunetta, Varuni Sastry 0001, Xingfu Wu, Valerie Taylor 0001, Michael E. Papka, Zhiling Lan
IPDPS2
2025 AERIS: Argonne Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions
abstract
Generative machine learning offers new opportunities to better understand complex Earth system dynamics. Recent diffusion-based methods address spectral biases and improve ensemble calibration in weather forecasting compared to deterministic methods, yet have so far proven difficult to scale stably at high resolutions. We introduce AERIS, a 1.3 to 80B parameter pixel-level Swin diffusion transformer to address this gap, and SWiPe, a generalizable technique that composes window parallelism with sequence and pipeline parallelism to shard window-based transformers without added communication cost or increased global batch size. On Aurora (10,080 nodes), AERIS sustains 10.21 ExaFLOPS (mixed precision) and a peak performance of 11.21 ExaFLOPS with 1 × 1 patch size on the 0.25° ERA5 dataset, achieving 95.5% weak scaling efficiency, and 81.6% strong scaling efficiency. AERIS outperforms the IFS ENS and remains stable on seasonal scales to 90 days, highlighting the potential of billion-parameter diffusion models for weather and climate prediction.
Väinö Hatanpää, Eugene Ku, Jason Stock, Murali Emani, Sam Foreman, Chunyong Jung, Sandeep Madireddy, Varuni Sastry 0001, Ray A. O. Sinurat, Huihuo Zheng, Sam Wheeler, Troy Arcomano, Venkatram Vishwanath, Rao Kotamarthi
SC9
2024 MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization
abstract
We present a scalable, end-to-end workflow for protein design. By augmenting protein sequences with natural language descriptions of their biochemical properties, we train generative models that can be preferentially aligned with protein fitness landscapes. Through complex experimental-and simulation-based observations, we integrate these measures as preferred parameters for generating new protein variants and demonstrate our workflow on five diverse supercomputers. We achieve >1 ExaFLOPS sustained performance in mixed precision on each supercomputer and a maximum sustained performance of 4.11 Ex-aFLOPS and peak performance of 5.57 ExaFLOPS. We establish the scientific performance of our model on two tasks: (1) across a predetermined benchmark dataset of deep mutational scanning experiments to optimize the fitness-determining mutations in the yeast protein HIS7, and (2) in optimizing the design of the enzyme malate dehydrogenase to achieve lower activation barriers (and therefore increased catalytic rates) using simulation data. Our implementation thus sets high watermarks for multimodal protein design workflows.
Gautham Dharuman, Kyle Hippe, Alex Brace, Sam Foreman, Väinö Hatanpää, Varuni Sastry 0001, Huihuo Zheng, Logan T. Ward, Servesh Muralidharan, Archit Vasan, Bharat Kale, Carla M. Mann, Yun-Hsuan Cheng, Yuliana Zamora, Shengchao Liu, Chaowei Xiao, Murali Emani, Tom Gibbs, Mahidhar Tatineni, Deepak Canchi, Jerome Mitchell, Koichi Yamada, María Jesús Garzarán, Michael E. Papka, Ian T. Foster, Rick L. Stevens, Anima Anandkumar, Venkatram Vishwanath, Arvind Ramanathan
SC6