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With the maturity of deep learning, its use is emerging in every field. Also, as different types of GPUs are becoming more available in the markets, it creates a difficult decision for users. How can users select GPUs to achieve optimal…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Narayan Kandel , Melanie Lambert

GPUs are vastly underutilized, even when running resource-intensive AI applications, as GPU kernels within each job have diverse resource profiles that may saturate some parts of a device while often leaving other parts idle. Colocating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Paul Elvinger , Foteini Strati , Natalie Enright Jerger , Ana Klimovic

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are increasingly implemented on graphics processing units (GPUs) to leverage parallel processing capabilities for enhanced efficiency. However, existing studies largely emphasize the raw speedup obtained by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinmeng Yu , Tao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

Power is increasingly becoming a limiting resource in high-performance, GPU-accelerated computing systems. Understanding the range and sources of power variation is essential in setting realistic bounds on rack and system peak power, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sridutt Bhalachandra , Brian Austin , Samuel Williams , Nicholas J. Wright

In this work, we have explored the advantages and drawbacks of using GPUs instead of CPUs in the calculation of a standard 2-point correlation function algorithm, which is useful for the analysis of Large Scale Structure of galaxies. Taking…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-01 Rafael Ponce , Miguel Cardenas-Montes , Juan Jose Rodriguez-Vazquez , Eusebio Sanchez , Ignacio Sevilla

Massive off-chip accesses in GPUs are the main performance bottleneck, and we divided these accesses into three types: (1) Write, (2) Data-Read, and (3) Read-Only. Besides, We find that many writes are duplicate, and the duplication can be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Wei Zhao , Dan Feng , Wei Tong , Xueliang Wei , Bing Wu

Disk access latency and transfer times are often considered to have a major and detrimental impact on the running time of software. Developers are often advised to favour in-memory operations and minimise disk access. Furthermore, diskless…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Kamran Karimi , Diwakar Krishnamurthy , Parissa Mirjafari

Many applications require to learn, mine, analyze and visualize large-scale graphs. These graphs are often too large to be addressed efficiently using conventional graph processing technologies. Many applications have requirements to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Santosh Pandey , Lingda Li , Adolfy Hoisie , Xiaoye S. Li , Hang Liu

GPUs offer orders-of-magnitude higher memory bandwidth than traditional CPU-only systems. However, GPU device memory tends to be relatively small and the memory capacity can not be increased by the user. This paper describes Buddy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Esha Choukse , Michael Sullivan , Mike O'Connor , Mattan Erez , Jeff Pool , David Nellans , Steve Keckler

Binary convolutional networks have lower computational load and lower memory foot-print compared to their full-precision counterparts. So, they are a feasible alternative for the deployment of computer vision applications on limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Mete Can Kaya , Alperen İnci , Alptekin Temizel

Maintaining computational load balance is important to the performant behavior of codes which operate under a distributed computing model. This is especially true for GPU architectures, which can suffer from memory oversubscription if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Michael E. Rowan , Axel Huebl , Kevin N. Gott , Jack Deslippe , Maxence Thévenet , Remi Lehe , Jean-Luc Vay

Deep learning models have revolutionized various fields, from image recognition to natural language processing, by achieving unprecedented levels of accuracy. However, their increasing energy consumption has raised concerns about their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Shreyank N Gowda , Xinyue Hao , Gen Li , Shashank Narayana Gowda , Xiaobo Jin , Laura Sevilla-Lara

There has been significant progress in developing neural network architectures that both achieve high predictive performance and that also achieve high application-level inference throughput (e.g., frames per second). Another metric of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jack Kosaian , Amar Phanishayee

GPUs are increasingly being used in security applications, especially for accelerating encryption/decryption. While GPUs are an attractive platform in terms of performance, the security of these devices raises a number of concerns. One…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Elmira Karimi , Yunsi Fei , David Kaeli

Not only with the large host memory for supporting large scale graph processing, GPU-accelerated heterogeneous architecture can also provide a great potential for high-performance computing. However, few existing heterogeneous systems can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Xianliang Li

Massive multi-threading in GPU imposes tremendous pressure on memory subsystems. Due to rapid growth in thread-level parallelism of GPU and slowly improved peak memory bandwidth, the memory becomes a bottleneck of GPU's performance and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Bing Li , Mengjie Mao , Xiaoxiao Liu , Tao Liu , Zihao Liu , Wujie Wen , Yiran Chen , Hai , Li

General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit(GPGPU) is used widely for achieving high performance or high throughput in parallel programming. This capability of GPGPUs is very famous in the new era and mostly used for scientific computing which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Vajira Thambawita , Roshan G. Ragel , Dhammike Elkaduwe

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is the de-facto choice for main memory devices due to its cost-effectiveness. It offers a larger capacity and higher bandwidth compared to SRAM but is slower than the latter. With each passing generation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kaustav Goswami , Hemanta Kumar Mondal , Shirshendu Das , Dip Sankar Banerjee

Modeling data sharing in GPU programs is a challenging task because of the massive parallelism and complex data sharing patterns provided by GPU architectures. Better GPU caching efficiency can be achieved through careful task scheduling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Lingda Li , Ari B. Hayes , Stephen A. Hackler , Eddy Z. Zhang , Mario Szegedy , Shuaiwen Leon Song

Scaling laws relate model quality to compute budget (FLOPs), but practitioners face wall-clock time constraints, not compute budgets. We study optimal model sizing under fixed time budgets from 5 minutes to 24 hours on consumer GPUs (RTX…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yi Liu