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Edge computing's growing prominence, due to its ability to reduce communication latency and enable real-time processing, is promoting the rise of high-performance, heterogeneous System-on-Chip solutions. While current approaches often…

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We present a theoretical analysis of GPU memory consumption during the training of DeepSeek models such as DeepSeek-v2 and DeepSeek-v3. Our primary objective is to clarify the device-level memory requirements associated with various…

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GPU architectures have become popular for executing general-purpose programs. Their many-core architecture supports a large number of threads that run concurrently to hide the latency among dependent instructions. In modern GPU…

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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

Modern GPUs adopt chiplet-based designs with multiple private cache hierarchies, but current programming models (CUDA/HIP) expose a flat execution hierarchy that cannot express chiplet-level locality or synchronization. This mismatch leads…

Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly being applied to radiology, enabling automated image interpretation and report generation tasks. Their deployment in clinical practice requires both high diagnostic accuracy and low inference…

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Memory management across discrete CPU and GPU physical memory is traditionally achieved through explicit GPU allocations and data copy or unified virtual memory. The Grace Hopper Superchip, for the first time, supports an integrated CPU-GPU…

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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 used for training, inference, and tuning the machine learning models. However, Deep Neural Network (DNN) vary widely in their ability to exploit the full power of high-performance GPUs. Spatial sharing of GPU enables multiplexing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Aditya Dhakal , Junguk Cho , Sameer G. Kulkarni , K. K. Ramakrishnan , Puneet Sharma

Vector search (VS) is now available in most database engines. However, while vector search is a common feature in AI/ML/LLMs where the dominant computing platforms are GPUs, existing database engines operate on CPUs even when implementing…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Vasilis Mageirakos , Joel André , Marko Kabić , Bowen Wu , Yannis Chronis , Gustavo Alonso

When multiple processor cores (CPUs) and a GPU integrated together on the same chip share the off-chip DRAM, requests from the GPU can heavily interfere with requests from the CPUs, leading to low system performance and starvation of cores.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Rachata Ausavarungnirun , Gabriel H. Loh , Lavanya Subramanian , Kevin Chang , Onur Mutlu

Subgraph matching has garnered increasing attention for its diverse real-world applications. Given the dynamic nature of real-world graphs, addressing evolving scenarios without incurring prohibitive overheads has been a focus of research.…

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Priority queue, often implemented as a heap, is an abstract data type that has been used in many well-known applications like Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm, Prim's minimum spanning tree, Huffman encoding, and the branch-and-bound…

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We describe different implementations of the 3D Heisenberg spin glass model for Graphics Processing Units (GPU). The results show that the {\em fast} shared memory gives better performance with respect to the {\em slow} global memory only…

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General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a crucial algorithm for various applications such as machine learning and scientific computing, and an efficient GEMM implementation is essential for the performance of these systems. While…

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We present a GPU implementation of vertex-patch smoothers for higher order finite element methods in two and three dimensions. Analysis shows that they are not memory bound with respect to GPU DRAM, but with respect to on-chip scratchpad…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Cu Cui , Paul Grosse-Bley , Guido Kanschat , Robert Strzodka

GPUs are the dominant platform for many important applications today including deep learning, accelerated computing, and scientific simulation. However, as the complexity of both applications and hardware increases, GPU chip manufacturers…

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We present direct astrophysical N-body simulations with up to a few million bodies using our parallel MPI/CUDA code on large GPU clusters in China, Ukraine and Germany, with different kinds of GPU hardware. These clusters are directly…

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Tensor parallelism (TP) enables large language models (LLMs) to scale inference efficiently across multiple GPUs, but its tight coupling makes systems fragile: a single GPU failure can halt execution, trigger costly KVCache recomputation,…

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