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This paper investigates hardware-based memory compression designs to increase the memory bandwidth. When lines are compressible, the hardware can store multiple lines in a single memory location, and retrieve all these lines in a single…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Vinson Young , Sanjay Kariyappa , Moinuddin K. Qureshi

To keep up with the growing computational requirements of machine learning workloads, many-core accelerators integrate an ever-increasing number of processing elements, putting the efficiency of memory and interconnect subsystems to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luca Colagrande , Luca Benini

Dataset storage, exchange, and access play a critical role in scientific applications. For such purposes netCDF serves as a portable and efficient file format and programming interface, which is popular in numerous scientific application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jianwei Li , Wei-keng Liao , Alok Choudhary , Robert Ross , Rajeev Thakur , William Gropp , Rob Latham

Benefiting from the self-attention mechanism, Transformer models have attained impressive contextual comprehension capabilities for lengthy texts. The requirements of high-throughput inference arise as the large language models (LLMs)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Huizheng Wang , Jiahao Fang , Xinru Tang , Zhiheng Yue , Jinxi Li , Yubin Qin , Sihan Guan , Qize Yang , Yang Wang , Chao Li , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

This study introduces a novel AI microcontroller optimized for cost-effective, battery-powered edge AI applications. Unlike traditional single bit/cell memory configurations, the proposed microcontroller integrates zero-standby power weight…

Transformer-based models dominate modern AI workloads but exacerbate memory bottlenecks due to their quadratic attention complexity and ever-growing model sizes. Existing accelerators, such as Groq and Cerebras, mitigate off-chip traffic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jinxin Yu , Yudong Pan , Mengdi Wang , Huawei Li , Yinhe Han , Xiaowei Li , Ying Wang

Emerging AI applications such as ChatGPT, graph convolutional networks, and other deep neural networks require massive computational resources for training and inference. Contemporary computing platforms such as CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Febin Sunny , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

Cloud applications are increasingly relying on hundreds of loosely-coupled microservices to complete user requests that meet an applications end-to-end QoS requirements. Communication time between services accounts for a large fraction of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Nikita Lazarev , Neil Adit , Shaojie Xiang , Zhiru Zhang , Christina Delimitrou

Image processing and machine learning applications benefit tremendously from hardware acceleration, but existing compilers target either FPGAs, which sacrifice power and performance for flexible hardware, or ASICs, which rapidly become…

Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a foundational programming model for high-performance computing. MPI libraries traditionally employ network interconnects (e.g., Ethernet and InfiniBand) and network protocols (e.g., TCP and RoCE) with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Xi Wang , Bin Ma , Jongryool Kim , Byungil Koh , Hoshik Kim , Dong Li

Exploration tasks are essential to many emerging robotics applications, ranging from search and rescue to space exploration. The planning problem for exploration requires determining the best locations for future measurements that will…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Keshav Gupta , Peter Zhi Xuan Li , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Astrophysical simulations are computation, memory, and thus energy intensive, thereby requiring new hardware advances for progress. Stony Brook University recently expanded its computing cluster "SeaWulf" with an addition of 94 new nodes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Joshua Martin , Catherine Feldman , Eva Siegmann , Tony Curtis , David Carlson , Firat Coskun , Daniel Wood , Raul Gonzalez , Robert J. Harrison , Alan C. Calder

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…

Accelerators such as neural processing units (NPUs) deliver an enticing balance of performance and efficiency compared to general purpose compute architectures. However, effectively leveraging accelerator capabilities is not always simple:…

As the landscape of deep neural networks evolves, heterogeneous dataflow accelerators, in the form of multi-core architectures or chiplet-based designs, promise more flexibility and higher inference performance through scalability. So far,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Arne Symons , Linyan Mei , Steven Colleman , Pouya Houshmand , Sebastian Karl , Marian Verhelst

Recently, nature-inspired computing approaches have gained significant attention for solving difficult optimization problems, particularly through Ising machines for NP-complete applications. Existing Ising accelerators range from quantum…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Lizy K. John , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni

As exascale systems reach unprecedented concurrency, traditional performance analysis tools struggle with the overhead of massive-scale telemetry. We present an accelerated infrastructure for the hpcanalysis framework that leverages a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dragana Grbic

In this paper, we describe the algorithms we implemented in FDPS to make efficient use of accelerator hardware such as GPGPUs. We have developed FDPS to make it possible for many researchers to develop their own high-performance parallel…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Masaki Iwasawa , Daisuke Namekata , Keigo Nitadori , Kentaro Nomura , Long Wang , Miyuki Tsubouchi , Junichiro Makino

With at least 50 cores, Intel Xeon Phi is a true many-core architecture. Featuring fairly powerful cores, two cache levels, and very fast interconnections, the Xeon Phi can get a theoretical peak of 1000 GFLOPs and over 240 GB/s. These…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-23 Jianbin Fang , Ana Lucia Varbanescu , Henk Sips , Lilun Zhang , Yonggang Che , Chuanfu Xu

The I/O access patterns of many parallel applications consist of accesses to a large number of small, noncontiguous pieces of data. If an application's I/O needs are met by making many small, distinct I/O requests, however, the I/O…

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