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In this paper, we propose an empirical method for evaluating the performance of parallel code. Our method is based on a simple idea that is surprisingly effective in helping to identify causes of poor performance, such as high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Umut A. Acar , Arthur Charguéraud , Mike Rainey

Control parallelism and data parallelism is mostly reasoned and optimized as separate functions. Because of this, workloads that are irregular, fine-grain and dynamic such as dynamic graph processing become very hard to scale. An…

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Optimizing the parallel training of large models requires exploring intra-operator parallelism plans for a computation graph that typically contains tens of thousands of primitive operators. While the optimization of parallel data…

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This paper considers optimization over multiple renewal systems coupled by time average constraints. These systems act asynchronously over variable length frames. For each system, at the beginning of each renewal frame, it chooses an action…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Xiaohan Wei , Michael J. Neely

Caching is crucial for enabling high-throughput networks for data intensive applications. Traditional caching technology relies on DRAM, as it can transfer data at a high rate. However, DRAM capacity is subject to contention by most system…

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Modern societies have developed insatiable demands for more computation capabilities. Exploiting implicit parallelism to provide automatic performance improvement remains a central goal in engineering future general-purpose computing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Sushant Kondguli , Michael Huang

Programming models for concurrency are optimized for dealing with nondeterminism, for example to handle asynchronously arriving events. To shield the developer from data race errors effectively, such models may prevent shared access to data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Mischael Schill , Sebastian Nanz , Bertrand Meyer

Parallelization techniques have become ubiquitous for accelerating inference and training of deep neural networks. Despite this, several operations are still performed in a sequential manner. For instance, the forward and backward passes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Federico Danieli , Miguel Sarabia , Xavier Suau , Pau Rodríguez , Luca Zappella

Transformer models struggle with long-context inference due to their quadratic time and linear memory complexity. Recurrent Memory Transformers (RMTs) offer a solution by reducing the asymptotic cost to linear time and constant memory…

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DRAM is the prevalent main memory technology, but its long access latency can limit the performance of many workloads. Although prior works provide DRAM designs that reduce DRAM access latency, their reduced storage capacities hinder the…

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In modern Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) multicore systems, each core can generate many parallel memory requests at a time. The processing of these parallel requests in the DRAM controller greatly affects the memory interference delay…

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To achieve high performance on modern computers, it is vital to map algorithmic parallelism to that inherent in the hardware. From an application developer's perspective, it is also important that code can be maintained in a portable manner…

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Directory-based protocols have been the de facto solution for maintaining cache coherence in shared-memory parallel systems comprising multi/many cores, where each store instruction is eagerly made globally visible by invalidating the…

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In modern data centers, energy usage represents one of the major factors affecting operational costs. Power capping is a technique that limits the power consumption of individual systems, which allows reducing the overall power demand at…

Performance · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Stefano Conoci , Pierangelo Di Sanzo , Bruno Ciciani , Francesco Quaglia

Parallel processing is considered as todays and future trend for improving performance of computers. Computing devices ranging from small embedded systems to big clusters of computers rely on parallelizing applications to reduce execution…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Oussama Tahan

Parallel p-bit Ising machines are a promising platform for fast and energy-efficient combinatorial optimization, but their scalability depends on update synchronization, hardware delay, and architectural cost. In this work, we establish a…

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In most modern systems, the memory subsystem is managed and accessed at multiple different granularities at various resources. We observe that such multi-granularity management results in significant inefficiency in the memory subsystem.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Vivek Seshadri

In this paper we present a novel strategy for accelerating green computing by utilizing and adopting the Hybrid Asymmetric Multicore Architectures (HAMA) model with Safe Parallelism. Most of the modern computing is serial and contributes to…

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