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Reconfigurable architectures like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been used for accelerating computations in several domains because of their unique combination of flexibility, performance, and power efficiency. However, FPGAs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Murat Isik , Kayode Inadagbo , Hakan Aktas

To analyze large sets of grid states, e.g. when evaluating the impact from the uncertainties of the renewable generation with probabilistic Monte Carlo simulation or in stationary time series simulation, large number of power flow…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Zhenqi Wang , Sebastian Wende-von Berg , Martin Braun

We present a DNN accelerator that allows inference at arbitrary precision with dedicated processing elements that are configurable at the bit level. Our DNN accelerator has 8 Processing Elements controlled by a RISC-V controller with a…

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The rapid development of RISC-V instruction set architecture presents new opportunities and challenges for software developers. Is it sufficient to simply recompile high-performance software optimized for x86-64 onto RISC-V CPUs? Are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Anna Pirova , Anastasia Vodeneeva , Konstantin Kovalev , Alexander Ustinov , Evgeny Kozinov , Alexey Liniov , Valentin Volokitin , Iosif Meyerov

Transformer neural networks (TNN) excel in natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV) without relying on recurrent or convolutional layers. However, they have high computational and memory demands,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

We present a new adaptive parallel algorithm for the challenging problem of multi-dimensional numerical integration on massively parallel architectures. Adaptive algorithms have demonstrated the best performance, but efficient many-core…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ioannis Sakiotis , Kamesh Arumugam , Marc Paterno , Desh Ranjan , Balša Terzić , Mohammad Zubair

RISC-V allows for building general-purpose computing platforms with programmable accelerators around a single open-source ISA. However, leveraging heterogeneous SoCs within high-level applications is a tedious task. In this preliminary…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Cyril Koenig , Enrico Zelioli , Frank K. Gürkaynak , Luca Benini

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely adopted cryptographic algorithm essential for securing embedded systems and IoT platforms. However, existing AES hardware accelerators often face limitations in performance, energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Van Tinh Nguyen , Phuc Hung Pham , Vu Trung Duong Le , Hoai Luan Pham , Tuan Hai Vu , Thi Diem Tran

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) leverage massive parallelism and large memory bandwidth to support high-performance computing applications, such as multimedia rendering, crypto-mining, deep learning, and natural language processing. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Nurlan Nazaraliyev , Elaheh Sadredini , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown excellent performance in image and speech applications. GANs create impressive data primarily through a new type of operator called deconvolution (DeConv) or transposed convolution (Conv).…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jung-Woo Chang , Saehyun Ahn , Keon-Woo Kang , Suk-Ju Kang

Following the scale-up of new radio (NR) complexity in 5G and beyond, the physical layer's computing load on base stations is increasing under a strictly constrained latency and power budget; base stations must process > 20-Gb/s uplink…

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Word2Vec remains one of the highly-impactful innovations in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that represents latent grammatical and syntactical information in human text with dense vectors in a low dimension. Word2Vec has high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Thomas Randall , Tyler Allen , Rong Ge

The exponential emergence of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has accelerated the research of hardware implementation of Deep Neural Network (DNN). Among all DNN processors, domain specific architectures, such as, Google's Tensor…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rourab Paul , Sreetama Sarkar , Suman Sau , Koushik Chakraborty , Sanghamitra Roy , Amlan Chakrabarti

In recent years the computational capacity of single Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devices as well as their versatility has increased significantly. Adding to that the High Level Synthesis frameworks allowing to program such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-22 G. Korcyl , P. Korcyl

Handling vast amounts of data is crucial in today's world. The growth of high-performance computing has created a need for parallelization, particularly in the area of machine learning algorithms such as ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbors).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Konstantin Rumyantsev , Pavel Yakovlev , Andrey Gorshkov , Andrey P. Sokolov

A range of RISC-V based accelerators are available and coming to market, and there is strong potential for these to be used for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. However, such accelerators tend to provide bespoke programming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Nick Brown , Jake Davies , Felix LeClair

Recent advances in graph processing on FPGAs promise to alleviate performance bottlenecks with irregular memory access patterns. Such bottlenecks challenge performance for a growing number of important application areas like machine…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are revolutionizing machine learning, but they present significant computational challenges. Recently, many FPGA-based accelerators have been proposed to improve the performance and efficiency of CNNs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Yongming Shen , Michael Ferdman , Peter Milder

Computational fluid dynamic simulations often produce large clusters of finite elements with non-trivial, non-convex boundaries and uneven distributions among compute nodes, posing challenges to compositing during interactive volume…

This article presents an electron tunneling noise programmable random variate accelerator for accelerating the sampling stage of Monte Carlo simulations. We used the LiteX framework to generate a FemtoRV imfc RISC-V instruction set soft…

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