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Large inter-GPU all-reduce operations, prevalent throughout deep learning, are bottlenecked by communication costs. Emerging heterogeneous architectures are comprised of complex nodes, often containing $4$ GPUs and dozens to hundreds of CPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Michael Adams , Amanda Bienz

Communication among devices in multi-GPU systems plays an important role in terms of performance and scalability. In order to optimize an application, programmers need to know the type and amount of the communication happening among GPUs.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Muhammet Abdullah Soyturk , Palwisha Akhtar , Erhan Tezcan , Didem Unat

In GPU graph analytics, the use of external memory such as the host DRAM and solid-state drives is a cost-effective approach to processing large graphs beyond the capacity of the GPU onboard memory. This paper studies the use of Compute…

GPUs are broadly used in I/O-intensive big data applications. Prior works demonstrate the benefits of using GPU-side file system layer, GPUfs, to improve the GPU performance and programmability in such workloads. However, GPUfs fails to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Vasilis Dimitsas , Mark Silberstein

To satisfy the compute and memory demands of deep neural networks, neural processing units (NPUs) are widely being utilized for accelerating deep learning algorithms. Similar to how GPUs have evolved from a slave device into a mainstream…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Bongjoon Hyun , Youngeun Kwon , Yujeong Choi , John Kim , Minsoo Rhu

Massively multicore processors, such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), provide, at a comparable price, a one order of magnitude higher peak performance than traditional CPUs. This drop in the cost of computation, as any…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Samer Al-Kiswany , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high performance co-processors originally intended to improve the use and quality of computer graphics applications. Once, researchers and practitioners noticed the potential of using GPU for general…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-12 K. Parand , Saeed Zafarvahedian , Sayyed A. Hossayni

We implemented the NaNet FPGA-based PCI2 Gen2 GbE/APElink NIC, featuring GPUDirect RDMA capabilities and UDP protocol management offloading. NaNet is able to receive a UDP input data stream from its GbE interface and redirect it, without…

With the rapid innovation of GPUs, heterogeneous GPU clusters in both public clouds and on-premise data centers have become increasingly commonplace. In this paper, we demonstrate how pipeline parallelism, a technique wellstudied for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Z. Jonny Kong , Qiang Xu , Y. Charlie Hu

The rapid development in scientific research provides a need for more compute power, which is partly being solved by GPUs. This paper presents a microarchitectural analysis of the modern NVIDIA Blackwell architecture by studying GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Aaron Jarmusch , Nathan Graddon , Sunita Chandrasekaran

Modern GPU applications, such as machine learning (ML), can only partially utilize GPUs, leading to GPU underutilization in cloud environments. Sharing GPUs across multiple applications from different tenants can improve resource…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Manos Pavlidakis , Giorgos Vasiliadis , Stelios Mavridis , Anargyros Argyros , Antony Chazapis , Angelos Bilas

There is growing interest in accelerating irregular data-parallel algorithms on GPUs. These algorithms are typically blocking, so they require fair scheduling. But GPU programming models (e.g.\ OpenCL) do not mandate fair scheduling, and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Tyler Sorensen , Hugues Evrard , Alastair F. Donaldson

Graphics processing units (GPUs) are continually evolving to cater to the computational demands of contemporary general-purpose workloads, particularly those driven by artificial intelligence (AI) utilizing deep learning techniques. A…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Weile Luo , Ruibo Fan , Zeyu Li , Dayou Du , Qiang Wang , Xiaowen Chu

Modern multicore systems are migrating from homogeneous systems to heterogeneous systems with accelerator-based computing in order to overcome the barriers of performance and power walls. In this trend, FPGA-based accelerators are becoming…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Zhe Lin , Sharad Sinha , Hao Liang , Liang Feng , Wei Zhang

Achieving maximum possible rate of inferencing with minimum hardware resources plays a major role in reducing enterprise operational costs. In this paper we explore use of PCIe streaming on FPGA based platforms to achieve high throughput.…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Piyush Manavar , Manoj Nambiar , Nupur Sumeet , Rekha Singhal , Sharod Choudhary , Amey Pandit

This paper presents novel approaches to parallelizing particle interactions on a GPU when there are few particles per cell and the interactions are limited by a cutoff distance. The paper surveys classical algorithms and then introduces two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-25 David Algis , Berenger Bramas , Emmanuelle Darles , Lilian Aveneau

This study explores strategies for academic researchers to optimize computational resources within limited budgets, focusing on building small, efficient computing clusters. It delves into the comparative costs of purchasing versus renting…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Ruilong Wu , Yisu Wang , Dirk Kutscher

Even with generational improvements in DRAM technology, memory access latency still remains the major bottleneck for application accelerators, primarily due to limitations in memory interface IPs which cannot fully account for variations in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sanket Pattnaik , Zhiyu Chen , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

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

Graphics Processing Unit, or GPUs, have been successfully adopted both for graphic computation in 3D applications, and for general purpose application (GP-GPUs), thank to their tremendous performance-per-watt. Recently, there is a big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Paolo Burgio