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With a growing need to enable intelligence in embedded devices in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, secure hardware implementation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has become imperative. We will focus on how to address adversarial robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Memory latency, bandwidth, capacity, and energy increasingly limit performance. In this paper, we reconsider proposed system architectures that consist of huge (many-terabyte to petabyte scale) memories shared among large numbers of CPUs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Samuel Dayo , Shuhan Liu , Peijing Li , Philip Levis , Subhasish Mitra , Thierry Tambe , David Tennenhouse , H. -S. Philip Wong

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) provide a powerful approach to meet the dramatic mobile traffic growth, but also impose a significant challenge on backhaul. Caching and multicasting at macro and pico base stations (BSs) are two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Ying Cui , Dongdong Jiang

Emerging computing applications such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) are facing a memory wall with existing on-package memory solutions that are unable to meet the power-efficient bandwidth demands. We propose to enhance UCIe with memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Debendra Das Sharma , Swadesh Choudhary , Peter Onufryk , Rob Pelt

With the rapid development of DNN applications, multi-tenant execution, where multiple DNNs are co-located on a single SoC, is becoming a prevailing trend. Although many methods are proposed in prior works to improve multi-tenant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Tianhao Cai , Liang Wang , Limin Xiao , Meng Han , Zeyu Wang , Lin Sun , Xiaojian Liao

With the rapid growth of deep neural networks (DNNs), compute-in-memory (CIM) has emerged as a promising energy-efficient paradigm for accelerating multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) operations. Yet, current CIM architectures are largely limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

High Performance Compute (HPC) clusters often produce intermediate files as part of code execution and message passing is not always possible to supply data to these cluster jobs. In these cases, I/O goes back to central distributed storage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Gabryel Mason-Williams , Dave Bond , Mark Basham

With the growing demand for latency-critical and computation-intensive Internet of Things (IoT) services, the IoT-oriented network architecture, mobile edge computing (MEC), has emerged as a promising technique to reinforce the computation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jiechen Chen , Hong Xing , Xiaohui Lin , Arumugam Nallanathan , Suzhi Bi

The proliferation of data-intensive applications, ranging from large language models to key-value stores, increasingly stresses memory systems with mixed read-write access patterns. Traditional half-duplex architectures such as DDR5 are…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yiwei Yang , Yusheng Zheng , Yiqi Chen , Zheng Liang , Kexin Chu , Zhe Zhou , Andi Quinn , Wei Zhang

Main memories play an important role in overall energy consumption of embedded systems. Using conventional memory technologies in future designs in nanoscale era causes a drastic increase in leakage power consumption and temperature-related…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Salman Onsori , Arghavan Asad , Kaamran Raahemifar , Mahmood Fathy

Deep Learning is able to solve a plethora of once impossible problems. However, they are vulnerable to input adversarial attacks preventing them from being autonomously deployed in critical applications. Several algorithm-centered works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Abhishek Moitra , Priyadarshini Panda

Compute in-memory (CIM) is a promising technique that minimizes data transport, the primary performance bottleneck and energy cost of most data intensive applications. This has found wide-spread adoption in accelerating neural networks for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Brian Crafton , Samuel Spetalnick , Gauthaman Murali , Tushar Krishna , Sung-Kyu Lim , Arijit Raychowdhury

Checkpointing is an indispensable technique to provide fault tolerance for long-running high-throughput applications like those running on desktop grids. This paper argues that a dedicated checkpoint storage system, optimized to operate in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Samer Al Kiswany , Matei Ripeanu , Sudharshan S. Vazhkudai , Abdullah Gharaibeh

The CXL-based solid-state drive (CXL-SSD) provides a promising approach towards scaling the main memory capacity at low cost. However, the CXL-SSD faces performance challenges due to the long flash access latency and unpredictable events…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Haoyang Zhang , Yuqi Xue , Yirui Eric Zhou , Shaobo Li , Jian Huang

Digital In-memory computing improves energy efficiency and throughput of a data-intensive process, which incur memory thrashing and, resulting multiple same memory accesses in a von Neumann architecture. Digital in-memory computing involves…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Veerendra S Devaraddi , Joycee M. Mekie

Intel OptaneTM DC Persistent Memory resides on the memory bus and approaches DRAM in access latency. One avenue for its adoption is to employ it in place of persistent storage; another is to use it as a cheaper and denser extension of DRAM.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Alexandra Fedorova , Keith Smith , Keith Bostic , Alexander Gorrod , Sue LoVerso , Michael Cahill

In-memory computing (IMC) utilizing synaptic crossbar arrays is promising for energy-efficient deep neural network (DNN) accelerators. Various technologies (CMOS and post-CMOS) have been explored as synaptic device candidates, each with its…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Chunguang Wang , Jeffry Victor , Sumeet K. Gupta

The implementation of Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) on In-Memory Computing (IMC) architectures faces significant challenges due to the mismatch between highdimensional vectors and IMC array sizes, leading to inefficient memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Do Yeong Kang , Yeong Hwan Oh , Chanwook Hwang , Jinhee Kim , Kang Eun Jeon , Jong Hwan Ko

The rising use of deep learning and other big-data algorithms has led to an increasing demand for hardware platforms that are computationally powerful, yet energy-efficient. Due to the amount of data parallelism in these algorithms,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Biresh Kumar Joardar , Ryan Gary Kim , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande , Diana Marculescu , Radu Marculescu

Compared to planar (i.e., two-dimensional) NAND flash memory, 3D NAND flash memory uses a new flash cell design, and vertically stacks dozens of silicon layers in a single chip. This allows 3D NAND flash memory to increase storage density…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Yixin Luo , Saugata Ghose , Yu Cai , Erich F. Haratsch , Onur Mutlu