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The widely-adopted practice is to train deep learning models with specialized hardware accelerators, e.g., GPUs or TPUs, due to their superior performance on linear algebra operations. However, this strategy does not employ effectively the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yujing Ma , Florin Rusu

Previous work has shown that there are two major complexity barriers in the synthesis of fault-tolerant distributed programs: (1) generation of fault-span, the set of states reachable in the presence of faults, and (2) resolving deadlock…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-12-15 Fuad Abujarad , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sandeep S. Kulkarni

Genetic Programming (GP) is a computationally intensive technique which also has a high degree of natural parallelism. Parallel computing architectures have become commonplace especially with regards Graphics Processing Units (GPU). Hence,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Darren M. Chitty

Efficient parallelization of algorithms on general-purpose GPUs is essential in many areas today. However, it is a non-trivial task for software engineers to utilize GPUs to improve the performance of high-level programs in general.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lars Hummelgren , John Wikman , Oscar Eriksson , Philipp Haller , David Broman

GPUs are widely used to accelerate many important classes of workloads today. However, we observe that several important emerging classes of workloads, including simulation engines for deep reinforcement learning and dynamic neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sankeerth Durvasula , Adrian Zhao , Raymond Kiguru , Yushi Guan , Zhonghan Chen , Nandita Vijaykumar

The Nvidia GPU architecture has introduced new computing elements such as the \textit{tensor cores}, which are special processing units dedicated to perform fast matrix-multiply-accumulate (MMA) operations and accelerate \textit{Deep…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Roberto Carrasco , Raimundo Vega , Cristóbal A. Navarro

Deploying deep neural networks on mobile devices is increasingly important but remains challenging due to limited computing resources. On the other hand, their unified memory architecture and narrower gap between CPU and GPU performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Zhuojin Li , Marco Paolieri , Leana Golubchik

Graph algorithms and techniques are increasingly being used in scientific and commercial applications to express relations and explore large data sets. Although conventional or commodity computer architectures, like CPU or GPU, can compute…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Michel A. Kinsy , Rashmi S. Agrawal , Hien D. Nguyen

Tensor processing units (TPUs) are one of the most well-known machine learning (ML) accelerators utilized at large scale in data centers as well as in tiny ML applications. TPUs offer several improvements and advantages over conventional ML…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Mohammed Elbtity , Peyton Chandarana , Ramtin Zand

Single-Program-Multiple-Data (SPMD) parallelism has recently been adopted to train large deep neural networks (DNNs). Few studies have explored its applicability on heterogeneous clusters, to fully exploit available resources for large…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Shiwei Zhang , Lansong Diao , Chuan Wu , Zongyan Cao , Siyu Wang , Wei Lin

Token generation speed is critical to power the next wave of AI inference applications. GPUs significantly underperform during token generation due to synchronization overheads at kernel boundaries, utilizing only 21% of their peak memory…

We introduce a learning-based framework to optimize tensor programs for deep learning workloads. Efficient implementations of tensor operators, such as matrix multiplication and high dimensional convolution, are key enablers of effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Tianqi Chen , Lianmin Zheng , Eddie Yan , Ziheng Jiang , Thierry Moreau , Luis Ceze , Carlos Guestrin , Arvind Krishnamurthy

Although recent scaling up approaches to training deep neural networks have proven to be effective, the computational intensity of large and complex models, as well as the availability of large-scale datasets, require deep learning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Bita Hasheminezhad , Shahrzad Shirzad , Nanmiao Wu , Patrick Diehl , Hannes Schulz , Hartmut Kaiser

The proliferation of IoT devices and advancements in network technologies have intensified the demand for real-time data processing at the network edge. To address these demands, low-power AI accelerators, particularly GPUs, are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Abhinaba Chakraborty , Wouter Tavernier , Akis Kourtis , Mario Pickavet , Andreas Oikonomakis , Didier Colle

We introduce two Python frameworks to train neural networks on large datasets: Blocks and Fuel. Blocks is based on Theano, a linear algebra compiler with CUDA-support. It facilitates the training of complex neural network models by…

As multicore computing is now standard, it seems irresponsible for constraints researchers to ignore the implications of it. Researchers need to address a number of issues to exploit parallelism, such as: investigating which constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Ian P. Gent , Ciaran McCreesh , Ian Miguel , Neil C. A. Moore , Peter Nightingale , Patrick Prosser , Chris Unsworth

State of art DL models are growing in size and complexity, with many modern models also increasing in heterogeneity of behavior. GPUs are still the dominant platform for DL applications, relying on a bulk-synchronous execution model which…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Michael Davies , Neal Crago , Karthikeyan Sankaralingam , Stephen W. Keckler

Graph analytics are vital in fields such as social networks, biomedical research, and graph neural networks (GNNs). However, traditional CPUs and GPUs struggle with the memory bottlenecks caused by large graph datasets and their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Oluwole Jaiyeoba , Abdullah T. Mughrabi , Morteza Baradaran , Beenish Gul , Kevin Skadron

We present a highly parallel implementation of the cross-correlation of time-series data using graphics processing units (GPUs), which is scalable to hundreds of independent inputs and suitable for the processing of signals from "Large-N"…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-02 M. A. Clark , P. C. La Plante , L. J. Greenhill

This paper introduces an effort to incorporate reconfigurable logic (FPGA) components into a software programming model. For this purpose, we have implemented a hardware engine for remote memory communication between hardware computation…

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