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Memory latency, bandwidth, capacity, and energy increasingly limit performance. In this paper, we reconsider proposed system architectures that consist of huge (many-terabyte to petabyte scale) memories shared among large numbers of CPUs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Samuel Dayo , Shuhan Liu , Peijing Li , Philip Levis , Subhasish Mitra , Thierry Tambe , David Tennenhouse , H. -S. Philip Wong

The future of main memory appears to lie in the direction of new non-volatile memory technologies that provide strong capacity-to-performance ratios, but have write operations that are much more expensive than reads in terms of energy,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Yan Gu , Yihan Sun , Guy E. Blelloch

Suppose we have a memory storing $0$s and $1$s and we want to estimate the frequency of $1$s by sampling. We want to do this I/O-efficiently, exploiting that each read gives a block of $B$ bits at unit cost; not just one bit. If the input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Shyam Narayanan , Václav Rozhoň , Jakub Tětek , Mikkel Thorup

As the accuracy of machine learning models increases at a fast rate, so does their demand for energy and compute resources. On a low level, the major part of these resources is consumed by data movement between different memory units.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Niels Gleinig , Tal Ben-Nun , Torsten Hoefler

This paper initiates the study of I/O algorithms (minimizing cache misses) from the perspective of fine-grained complexity (conditional polynomial lower bounds). Specifically, we aim to answer why sparse graph problems are so hard, and why…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Erik D. Demaine , Andrea Lincoln , Quanquan C. Liu , Jayson Lynch , Virginia Vassilevska Williams

A priority queue is a fundamental data structure that maintains a dynamic set of (key, priority)-pairs and supports Insert, Delete, ExtractMin and DecreaseKey operations. In the external memory model, the current best priority queue…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Shunhua Jiang , Kasper Green Larsen

In high performance computing, researchers try to optimize the CPU Scheduling algorithms, for faster and efficient working of computers. But a process needs both CPU bound and I/O bound for completion of its execution. With modernization of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Amar Ranjan Dash , Sandipta Kumar Sahu , B Kewal

Algorithmic efficiency is essential to reducing energy and time usage for computational problems. Optimizing efficiency is important for tasks involving multiple resources, for example in stochastic calculations where the size of the random…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Run Yan Teh , Manushan Thenabadu , Peter D Drummond

When designing an algorithm, one cares about arithmetic/computational complexity, but data movement (I/O) complexity plays an increasingly important role that highly impacts performance and energy consumption. For a given algorithm and a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Lionel Eyraud-Dubois , Guillaume Iooss , Julien Langou , Fabrice Rastello

The speed of modern digital systems is severely limited by memory latency (the ``Memory Wall'' problem). Data exchange between Logic and Memory is also responsible for a large part of the system energy consumption. Logic--In--Memory (LiM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Fabrizio Ottati , Giovanna Turvani , Marco Vacca , Guido Masera

The inversion of extremely high order matrices has been a challenging task because of the limited processing and memory capacity of conventional computers. In a scenario in which the data does not fit in memory, it is worth to consider…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Iria C. S. Cosme , Isaac F. Fernandes , João L. de Carvalho , Samuel Xavier-de-Souza

Nowadays computer networks use different kind of memory whose speeds and capacities vary widely. There exist methods of a so-called caching which are intended to use the different kinds of memory in such a way that the frequently used data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Boris Ryabko

Sorting extremely large datasets is a frequently occuring task in practice. These datasets are usually much larger than the computer's main memory; thus external memory sorting algorithms, first introduced by Aggarwal and Vitter (1988), are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Kasper Green Larsen , Elaine Shi

One of the biggest open problems in external memory data structures is the priority queue problem with DecreaseKey operations. If only Insert and ExtractMin operations need to be supported, one can design a comparison-based priority queue…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Kasper Eenberg , Kasper Green Larsen , Huacheng Yu

As deep learning models continue to increase in size, the memory requirements for training have surged. While high-level techniques like offloading, recomputation, and compression can alleviate memory pressure, they also introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Huiyao Shu , Ang Wang , Ziji Shi , Hanyu Zhao , Yong Li , Lu Lu

Many computer systems for calculating the proper organization of memory are among the most critical issues. Using a tier cache memory (along with branching prediction) is an effective means of increasing modern multi-core processors'…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Mohamed A. Hamada , Abdelrahman Abdallah

We consider the dictionary problem in external memory and improve the update time of the well-known buffer tree by roughly a logarithmic factor. For any \lambda >= max {lg lg n, log_{M/B} (n/B)}, we can support updates in time O(\lambda /…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-15 John Iacono , Mihai Pǎtraşcu

Memory-centric computing aims to enable computation capability in and near all places where data is generated and stored. As such, it can greatly reduce the large negative performance and energy impact of data access and data movement, by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Onur Mutlu , Ataberk Olgun , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Ismail Emir Yuksel

This paper presents an analysis of the fundamental limits on energy efficiency in both digital and analog in-memory computing architectures, and compares their performance to single instruction, single data (scalar) machines specifically in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Patrick Bowen , Guy Regev , Nir Regev , Bruno Pedroni , Edward Hanson , Yiran Chen

Contemporary memory systems contain a variety of memory types, each possessing distinct characteristics. This trend empowers applications to opt for memory types aligning with developer's desired behavior. As a result, developers gain…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Andrès Rubio Proaño , Kento Sato