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Processing-in-Memory (PIM) enhances memory with computational capabilities, potentially solving energy and latency issues associated with data transfer between memory and processors. However, managing concurrent computation and data flow…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ahmed Mamdouh , Haoran Geng , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Dayane Reis

This paper summarizes the idea of Tiered-Latency DRAM, which was published in HPCA 2013. The key goal of TL-DRAM is to provide low DRAM latency at low cost, a critical problem in modern memory systems. To this end, TL-DRAM introduces…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-27 Donghyuk Lee , Yoongu Kim , Vivek Seshadri , Jamie Liu , Lavanya Subramanian , Onur Mutlu

This paper studies the impact of DRAM writes on DDR5-based system. To efficiently perform DRAM writes, modern systems buffer write requests and try to complete multiple write operations whenever the DRAM mode is switched from read to write.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Suhas Vittal , Moinuddin Qureshi

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture is an inherent match for data analytics application, but we observe major challenges to address when accelerating it using PIM. In this paper, we propose Darwin, a practical LRDIMM-based multi-level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Donghyuk Kim , Jae-Young Kim , Wontak Han , Jongsoon Won , Haerang Choi , Yongkee Kwon , Joo-Young Kim

The approximate minimum degree algorithm is widely used before numerical factorization to reduce fill-in for sparse matrices. While considerable attention has been given to the numerical factorization process, less focus has been placed on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yen-Hsiang Chang , Aydın Buluç , James Demmel

In-memory database query processing frequently involves substantial data transfers between the CPU and memory, leading to inefficiencies due to Von Neumann bottleneck. Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures offer a viable solution to…

In cloud computing environments, multiple tenants are often co-located on the same multi-processor system. Thus, preventing information leakage between tenants is crucial. While the hypervisor enforces software isolation, shared hardware,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Peter Pessl , Daniel Gruss , Clémentine Maurice , Michael Schwarz , Stefan Mangard

Processing-using-DRAM has been proposed for a limited set of basic operations (i.e., logic operations, addition). However, in order to enable the full adoption of processing-using-DRAM, it is necessary to provide support for more complex…

As the size of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models and datasets grows, the memory bandwidth becomes a critical bottleneck. The paper presents a novel extended memory hierarchy that addresses some major memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jordi Altayo , Paul Delestrac , David Novo , Simey Yang , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Francky Catthoor

Model parallelism is conventionally viewed as a method to scale a single large deep learning model beyond the memory limits of a single device. In this paper, we demonstrate that model parallelism can be additionally used for the…

This paper summarizes the idea of Adaptive-Latency DRAM (AL-DRAM), which was published in HPCA 2015. The key goal of AL-DRAM is to exploit the extra margin that is built into the DRAM timing parameters to reduce DRAM latency. The key…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Donghyuk Lee , Yoongu Kim , Gennady Pekhimenko , Samira Khan , Vivek Seshadri , Kevin Chang , Onur Mutlu

Today's high-performance architectures are increasingly constrained by data movement latency and energy overhead, as the slowdown of single-core performance scaling coincides with the rise of highly data-intensive workloads. In-memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Farzad Razi , Mehran Moghadam , Sercan Aygun , M. Hassan Najafi , Marc Riedel

Modern multicore system-on-chips (SoCs) share off-chip DRAM across cores, where bank-level interference can significantly degrade performance and threaten real-time guarantees. While prior work has focused on per-core bandwidth regulation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Connor Rudy Sullivan , Amin Mamandipoor , Cole Ridge Strickler , Heechul Yun

We developed a flexible parallel algorithm for graph summarization based on vertex-centric programming and parameterized message passing. The base algorithm supports infinitely many structural graph summary models defined in a formal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Till Blume , Jannik Rau , David Richerby , Ansgar Scherp

Bit-serial Processing-In-Memory (PIM) is an attractive paradigm for accelerator architectures, for parallel workloads such as Deep Learning (DL), because of its capability to achieve massive data parallelism at a low area overhead and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Aman Arora , Jian Weng , Siyuan Ma , Tony Nowatzki , Lizy K. John

We introduce BriskStream, an in-memory data stream processing system (DSPSs) specifically designed for modern shared-memory multicore architectures. BriskStream's key contribution is an execution plan optimization paradigm, namely RLAS,…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Shuhao Zhang , Jiong He , Amelie Chi Zhou , Bingsheng He

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-29 Heechul Yun

Sequence alignment is a fundamental process in computational biology which identifies regions of similarity in biological sequences. With the exponential growth in the volume of data in bioinformatics databases, the time, processing power,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Nasrin Akbari , Mehdi Modarressi , Alireza Khadem

The memory capacity in edge devices is often limited due to constraints on cost, size, and power. Consequently, memory competition leads to inevitable page swapping in memory-constrained mixed-criticality edge devices, causing slow storage…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Meng-Chia Lee , Wen Sheng Lim , Yuan-Hao Chang , Tei-Wei Kuo

There are two intertwined factors that affect performance of concurrent data structures: the ability of processes to access the data in parallel and the cost of synchronization. It has been observed that for a large class of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Vitaly Aksenov , Petr Kuznetsov