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FPGA-based data processing in datacenters is increasing in popularity due to the demands of modern workloads and the ensuing necessity for specialization in hardware. Driven by this trend, vendors are rapidly adapting reconfigurable devices…
With the recent release of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) based FPGA boards, developers can now exploit unprecedented external memory bandwidth. This allows more memory-bounded applications to benefit from FPGA acceleration. However, we found…
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) provides massive aggregated memory bandwidth by exposing multiple memory channels to the processing units. To achieve high performance, an accelerator built on top of an FPGA configured with HBM (i.e., FPGA-HBM…
FPGAs are increasingly utilized in data centers due to their capacity to exploit data parallelism in computationally intensive workloads. Furthermore, the processing of modern data center workloads requires moving vast amounts of data,…
Hybrid memory systems, comprised of emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) and DRAM, have been proposed to address the growing memory demand of applications. Emerging NVM technologies, such as phase-change memories (PCM), memristor, and 3D…
Top-K SpMV is a key component of similarity-search on sparse embeddings. This sparse workload does not perform well on general-purpose NUMA systems that employ traditional caching strategies. Instead, modern FPGA accelerator cards have a…
The attention layer, a core component of Transformer-based LLMs, brings out inefficiencies in current GPU systems due to its low operational intensity and the substantial memory requirements of KV caches. We propose a High-bandwidth…
Modern data-intensive applications demand high computation capabilities with strict power constraints. Unfortunately, such applications suffer from a significant waste of both execution cycles and energy in current computing systems due to…
Recent advances in reprogrammable hardware (e.g., FPGAs) and memory technology (e.g., DDR4, HBM) promise to solve performance problems inherent to graph processing like irregular memory access patterns on traditional hardware (e.g., CPU).…
Modern computing devices employ High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to meet their memory bandwidth requirements. An HBM-enabled device consists of multiple DRAM layers stacked on top of one another next to a compute chip (e.g. CPU, GPU, and FPGA)…
The emergence of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) brings new opportunities to boost the performance of sorting acceleration on FPGAs, which was conventionally bounded by the available off-chip memory bandwidth. However, it is nontrivial for…
Plenty of research efforts have been devoted to FPGA-based acceleration, due to its low latency and high energy efficiency. However, using the original low-level hardware description languages like Verilog to program FPGAs requires…
A large language model (LLM) is one of the most important emerging machine learning applications nowadays. However, due to its huge model size and runtime increase of the memory footprint, LLM inferences suffer from the lack of memory…
The Memory stress (Mess) framework provides a unified view of the memory system benchmarking, simulation and application profiling. The Mess benchmark provides a holistic and detailed memory system characterization. It is based on hundreds…
We present a lightweight tool for the analysis and tuning of application data placement in systems with heterogeneous memory pools. The tool allows non-intrusively identifying, analyzing, and controlling the placement of individual…
Supported by their high power efficiency and recent advancements in High Level Synthesis (HLS), FPGAs are quickly finding their way into HPC and cloud systems. Large amounts of work have been done so far on loop and area optimizations for…
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development of quantum emulation. However, existing studies often struggle to achieve broad applicability, high performance, and efficient resource and memory utilization. To address…
By providing highly efficient one-sided communication with globally shared memory space, Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) has become one of the most promising parallel computing models in high-performance computing (HPC). Meanwhile,…
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) imposes substantial memory bandwidth demands, presenting significant challenges for efficient hardware acceleration. Near-memory Processing (NMP) has emerged as a promising architectural solution to…
The increasing demand of dedicated accelerators to improve energy efficiency and performance has highlighted FPGAs as a promising option to deliver both. However, programming FPGAs in hardware description languages requires long time and…