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In this paper, we consider a heterogenous network (HetNet), where low-power indoor femtocells are deployed in the coverage area of the existing macro base station (MBS). This paper proposes a novel coordinated random beamforming and user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Jun Zhu , Hong-Chuan Yang

Optimizing data movements is becoming one of the biggest challenges in heterogeneous computing to cope with data deluge and, consequently, big data applications. When creating specialized accelerators, modern high-level synthesis (HLS)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Stephanie Soldavini , Donatella Sciuto , Christian Pilato

Attention mechanisms, particularly within Transformer architectures and large language models (LLMs), have revolutionized sequence modeling in machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. To compute attention for increasingly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Kosmas Alexandridis , Vasileios Titopoulos , Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos

Hardware heterogeneity is here to stay for high-performance computing. Large-scale systems are currently equipped with multiple GPU accelerators per compute node and are expected to incorporate more specialized hardware. This shift in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Polykarpos Thomadakis , Nikos Chrisochoides

This paper introduces FlexNN, a Flexible Neural Network accelerator, which adopts agile design principles to enable versatile dataflows, enhancing energy efficiency. Unlike conventional convolutional neural network accelerator architectures…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Arnab Raha , Deepak A. Mathaikutty , Soumendu K. Ghosh , Shamik Kundu

Today's computing systems require moving data back-and-forth between computing resources (e.g., CPUs, GPUs, accelerators) and off-chip main memory so that computation can take place on the data. Unfortunately, this data movement is a major…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Amirali Boroumand , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu

Novel materials and devices in photonics have the potential to revolutionize optical information processing, beyond conventional binary-logic approaches. Laser systems offer a rich repertoire of useful dynamical behaviors, including the…

The surge in generative AI workloads has created a need for scalable inference systems that can flexibly harness both GPUs and specialized accelerators while containing operational costs. This paper proposes a hardware-agnostic control loop…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Yahav Biran , Imry Kissos

As the performance gains from accelerating quantized matrix multiplication plateau, the softmax operation becomes the critical bottleneck in Transformer inference. This bottleneck stems from two hardware limitations: (1) limited data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zisheng Ye , Xiaoyu He , Maoyuan Song , Guoliang Qiu , Chao Liao , Chen Wu , Yonggang Sun , Zhichun Li , Xiaoru Xie , Yuanyong Luo , Hu Liu , Pinyan Lu , Heng Liao

Graph processing systems are essential for analyzing large-scale data with complex relationships, yet most existing frameworks rely on statically provisioned clusters, resulting in poor elasticity and inefficient resource utilization under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Chen Zhao , Parsa Poorsistani , Mohammad Goudarzi , Tawfiq Islam , Adel N. Toosi

Transformer architectures have become the standard neural network model for various machine learning applications including natural language processing and computer vision. However, the compute and memory requirements introduced by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Pratyush Dhingra , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande

Heterogeneous systems consisting of general-purpose processors and different types of hardware accelerators are becoming more and more common in HPC systems. Especially FPGAs provide a promising opportunity to improve both performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Oliver Knodel , Rainer G. Spallek

Sparsity is a growing trend in modern DNN models. Existing Sparse-Sparse Matrix Multiplication (SpMSpM) accelerators are tailored to a particular SpMSpM dataflow (i.e., Inner Product, Outer Product or Gustavsons), that determines their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Francisco Muñoz-Martínez , Raveesh Garg , José L. Abellán , Michael Pellauer , Manuel E. Acacio , Tushar Krishna

This paper consists of three parts. The first part provides a unified programming model for heterogeneous computing with CPU and accelerator (like GPU, FPGA, Google TPU, Atos QPU, and more) technologies. To some extent, this new programming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yuqing Xiong

Neutral atoms have emerged as a promising technology for implementing quantum computers due to their scalability and long coherence times. However, the execution frequency of neutral atom quantum computers is constrained by image processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Xiaorang Guo , Jonas Winklmann , Dirk Stober , Amr Elsharkawy , Martin Schulz

Heterogeneous processors, formed by binary compatible CPU cores with different microarchitectures, enable energy reductions by better matching processing capabilities and software application requirements. This new hardware platform…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Kris Nikov , Jose L. Nunez-Yanez , Matthew Horsnell

This paper proposes a hybrid energy storage system (HESS)-based control framework that enables comprehensive power smoothing for hyperscale AI datacenters with large load variations. Datacenters impose severe ramping and fluctuation-induced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Min-Seung Ko , Jae Woong Shim , Hao Zhu

Edge/Fog computing is a novel computing paradigm that provides resource-limited Internet of Things (IoT) devices with scalable computing and storage resources. Compared to cloud computing, edge/fog servers have fewer resources, but they can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Qifan Deng , Rajkumar Buyya

Image processing algorithms are prime targets for hardware acceleration as they are commonly used in resource- and power-limited applications. Today's image processing accelerator designs make rigid assumptions about the algorithm…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Nisarg Ujjainkar , Jingwen Leng , Yuhao Zhu

Transformers have revolutionized AI in natural language processing and computer vision, but their large computation and memory demands pose major challenges for hardware acceleration. In practice, end-to-end throughput is often limited by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Qunyou Liu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza