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Array-of-structures (AoS) to structure-of-arrays (SoA) is a classic compiler transformation that improves memory locality and enables data-parallel execution. Existing AoS-to-SoA transformations primarily target regular, array-based…
The C++ programming language provides classes and structs as fundamental modeling entities. Consequently, C++ code tends to favour array-of-structs (AoS) for encoding data sequences, even though structure-of-arrays (SoA) yields better…
The C programming language and its cousins such as C++ stipulate the static storage of sets of structured data: Developers have to commit to one, invariant data model -- typically a structure-of-arrays (SoA) or an array-of-structs (AoS) --…
Many proposals have already been made for realizing programmable matter, ranging from shape-changing molecules, DNA tiles, and synthetic cells to reconfigurable modular robotics. Envisioning systems of nano-sensors devices, we are…
High-performance computing (HPC) systems and cloud data centers are converging, and containers are becoming the default method of portable software deployment. Yet, while containers simplify software management, they face significant…
Ensuring predictability in modern real-time Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) is an increasingly critical concern for many application domains such as automotive, robotics, and industrial automation. An effective approach involves the modeling and…
Increasing investment in computing technologies and the advancements in silicon technology has fueled rapid growth in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and corresponding SoC developments. An ADAS SoC represents a heterogeneous…
We present a systematic, algebraically based, design methodology for efficient implementation of computer programs optimized over multiple levels of the processor/memory and network hierarchy. Using a common formalism to describe the…
This study evaluates AoS-to-SoA transformations over reduced-precision data layouts for a particle simulation code on several GPU platforms: We hypothesize that SoA fits particularly well to SIMT, while AoS is the preferred storage format…
Modern heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) devices integrate advanced components into a single package, offering powerful capabilities while also introducing significant complexity. To manage these sophisticated devices, firmware and…
Object-oriented programming is often regarded as too inefficient for high-performance computing (HPC), despite the fact that many important HPC problems have an inherent object structure. Our goal is to bring efficient, object-oriented…
The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is considered to be the next generation of intelligent industrial automation systems that integrate computing, communication and control technologies. In CPS, the interoperability requirements between devices…
HPC and Cloud have evolved independently, specializing their innovations into performance or productivity. Acceleration as a Service (XaaS) is a recipe to empower both fields with a shared execution platform that provides transparent access…
Recent advancements in the synthesis of anisotropic macromolecules and nanoparticles have spurred an immense interest in theoretical and computational studies of self-assembly. The cornerstone of such studies is the role of shape in…
Self-organized criticality (SOC) is a popular concept that has been the subject of more than 3000 articles in the last 25 years. Here we show that SOC may enable theory to connect standard Web-based (BLAST) short-range amino acid (aa)…
Object storage solutions potentially address long-standing performance issues with POSIX file systems for certain I/O workloads, and new storage technologies offer promising performance characteristics for data-intensive use cases. In this…
The suffix array is a data structure that finds numerous applications in string processing problems for both linguistic texts and biological data. It has been introduced as a memory efficient alternative for suffix trees. The suffix array…
Visual grouping -- operationalized through tasks such as instance segmentation, visual grounding, and object detection -- enables applications ranging from robotic perception to photo editing. These fundamental problems in computer vision…
A variety of logical frameworks support the use of higher-order abstract syntax (HOAS) in representing formal systems. Although these systems seem superficially the same, they differ in a variety of ways; for example, how they handle a…
Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a stochastic technique for solving the optimization problem. Attempts have been made to shorten the computation times of PSO based algorithms with massive threads on GPUs (graphic processing units),…