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Recent advances in reprogrammable hardware (e.g., FPGAs) and memory technology (e.g., DDR4, HBM) promise to solve performance problems inherent to graph processing like irregular memory access patterns on traditional hardware (e.g., CPU).…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

Heterogeneous computing platforms consisting of general purpose processors (GPPs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) have become commonplace in personal mobile devices and embedded systems. For years, programming of these platforms was…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Jani Boutellier , Ilkka Hautala

Region proposal is critical for object detection while it usually poses a bottleneck in improving the computation efficiency on traditional control-flow architectures. We have observed region proposal tasks are potentially suitable for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Wenzhi Fu , Jianlei Yang , Pengcheng Dai , Yiran Chen , Weisheng Zhao

The irregular nature of memory accesses of graph workloads makes their performance poor on modern computing platforms. On manycore reconfigurable architectures (MRAs), in particular, even state-of-the-art graph prefetchers do not work well…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yichen Yang , Jingtao Li , Nishil Talati , Subhankar Pal , Siying Feng , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Trevor Mudge , Ronald Dreslinski

The use of reconfigurable computing, and FPGAs in particular, to accelerate computational kernels has the potential to be of great benefit to scientific codes and the HPC community in general. However, whilst recent advanced in FPGA tooling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Nick Brown , David Dolman

Connected components and spanning forest are fundamental graph algorithms due to their use in many important applications, such as graph clustering and image segmentation. GPUs are an ideal platform for graph algorithms due to their high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Changwan Hong , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

In this treatise, my research on methods to improve efficiency, reliability, and security of reconfigurable hardware systems, i.e., FPGAs, through partial dynamic reconfiguration is outlined. The efficiency of reconfigurable systems can be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Daniel Ziener

Subgraph matching is a basic operation widely used in many applications. However, due to its NP-hardness and the explosive growth of graph data, it is challenging to compute subgraph matching, especially in large graphs. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xin Jin , Zhengyi Yang , Xuemin Lin , Shiyu Yang , Lu Qin , You Peng

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are used to solve search and optimization problems in which an optimal solution can be found using an iterative process with probabilistic and non-deterministic transitions. However, depending on the problem's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Matheus F. Torquato , Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

We consider dataflow architecture for two classes of computations which admit taking linear combinations of execution runs: probabilistic sampling and generalized animation. We improve the earlier technique of almost continuous program…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-01-12 Michael Bukatin , Steve Matthews

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in deep learning applications, e.g. visual systems, robotics etc. However, existing software solutions are not efficient. Therefore, many hardware accelerators have been proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sandaruwan Jayaweera , Mahesh Dananjaya , Ajith Pasqual

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently exploded in popularity thanks to their broad applicability to graph-related problems such as quantum chemistry, drug discovery, and high energy physics. However, meeting demand for novel GNN models…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Rishov Sarkar , Stefan Abi-Karam , Yuqi He , Lakshmi Sathidevi , Cong Hao

FPGAs are an attractive type of accelerator for all-purpose HPC computing systems due to the possibility of deploying tailored hardware on demand. However, the common tools for programming and operating FPGAs are still complex to use,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal , Nick Brown , Yuri Torres , Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano

Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are domain-agnostic accelerators that enhance the energy efficiency of resource-constrained edge devices. The CGRA landscape is diverse, exhibiting trade-offs between performance, efficiency, and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Zhaoying Li , Pranav Dangi , Chenyang Yin , Thilini Kaushalya Bandara , Rohan Juneja , Cheng Tan , Zhenyu Bai , Tulika Mitra

Overlays have shown significant promise for field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) as they allow for fast development cycles and remove many of the challenges of the traditional FPGA hardware design flow. However, this often comes with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , David Han , Andrew Bitar , Roberto DiCecco , Shane OConnell , Nitika Shanker , Joseph Chu , Ian Prins , Joshua Fender , Andrew C. Ling , Gordon R. Chiu

In view of the large amount of calculation and long calculation time of convolutional neural network (CNN), this paper proposes a convolutional neural network hardware accelerator based on field programmable logic gate array (FPGA). First,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xiong Jun

High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms allow scientists to model computationally intensive algorithms. HPC clusters increasingly use General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) as accelerators; FPGAs provide an attractive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Syed Waqar Nabi , Saji N. Hameed , Wim Vanderbauwhede

Deep learning (DL) is becoming the cornerstone of numerous applications both in datacenters and at the edge. Specialized hardware is often necessary to meet the performance requirements of state-of-the-art DL models, but the rapid pace of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Andrew Boutros , Aman Arora , Vaughn Betz

Modern field programmable gate array(FPGA) can be partially dynamically reconfigurable with heterogeneous resources distributed on the chip. And FPGA-based partially dynamically reconfigurable system(FPGA-PDRS) can be used to accelerate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-13 Bo Ding , Jinglei Huang , Junpeng Wang , Qi Xu , Song Chen , Yi Kang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered a lot of recent interest because of their success in learning representations from graph-structured data across several critical applications in cloud and HPC. Owing to their unique compute and…