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As conventional technology scaling approaches physical and power limitations, modern computing systems increasingly face performance bottlenecks arising from memory latency, energy consumption, scalability constraints, and data movement…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman

The rapid growth of LLMs demands high-throughput, memory-capacity-intensive inference on resource-constrained edge devices, where single-batch decoding remains fundamentally memory-bound. Existing out-of-core GPU-based and SSD-like…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Mingbo Hao , Changwei Yan , Haoyu Cui , Zhihao Yan , Yizhi Ding , Zhangrui Qian , Weiwei Shan

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can unleash the full power of analog Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAMs) based circuits for low power signal processing. Their inherent computational sparsity naturally results in energy efficiency…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Filippo Moro , E. Esmanhotto , T. Hirtzlin , N. Castellani , A. Trabelsi , T. Dalgaty , G. Molas , F. Andrieu , S. Brivio , S. Spiga , G. Indiveri , M. Payvand , E. Vianello

Deep neural network (DNN) inference relies increasingly on specialized hardware for high computational efficiency. This work introduces a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based dynamically configurable accelerator featuring systolic…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anastasios Petropoulos , Theodore Antonakopoulos

Numerous neural network circuits and architectures are presently under active research for application to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their physical performance metrics (area, time, energy) are estimated. Various types of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Dmitri E. Nikonov , Ian A. Young

Hybrid memory systems comprised of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and non-volatile memory (NVM) have been proposed to exploit both the capacity advantage of NVM and the latency and dynamic energy advantages of DRAM. An important…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Yang Li , Jongmoo Choi , Jin Sun , Saugata Ghose , Hui Wang , Justin Meza , Jinglei Ren , Onur Mutlu

The emergence of memristor technologies brings new prospects for modern electronics via enabling novel in-memory computing solutions and affordable and scalable reconfigurable hardware implementations. Several competing memristor…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Spyros Stathopoulos , Loukas Michalas , Ali Khiat , Alexantrou Serb , Themis Prodromakis

Traditional Von Neumann computing is falling apart in the era of exploding data volumes as the overhead of data transfer becomes forbidding. Instead, it is more energy-efficient to fuse compute capability with memory where the data reside.…

In recent years, there is an increasing demand of big memory systems so to perform large scale data analytics. Since DRAM memories are expensive, some researchers are suggesting to use other memory systems such as non-volatile memory (NVM)…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-10-03 Gaoying Ju , Yongkun Li , Yinlong Xu , Jiqiang Chen , John C. S. Lui

Non-volatile memory (NVM), also known as persistent memory, is an emerging paradigm for memory that preserves its contents even after power loss. NVM is widely expected to become ubiquitous, and hardware architectures are already providing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eleni Bila , John Derrick , Simon Doherty , Brijesh Dongol , Gerhard Schellhorn , Heike Wehrheim

Designing and implementing efficient, provably correct parallel neural network processing is challenging. Existing high-level parallel abstractions like MapReduce are insufficiently expressive while low-level tools like MPI and Pthreads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Maohua Zhu , Liu Liu , Chao Wang , Yuan Xie

Neuromorphic architectures such as IBM's TrueNorth and Intel's Loihi have been introduced as platforms for energy efficient spiking neural network execution. However, there is no framework that allows for rapidly experimenting with…

The byte-addressable Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is a promising technology since it simultaneously provides DRAM-like performance, disk-like capacity, and persistency. The current NVM deployment is symmetric, where NVM devices are directly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Teng Ma , Mingxing Zhang , Kang Chen , Xuehai Qian , Yongwei Wu

Unified Virtual Memory (UVM) was recently introduced on recent NVIDIA GPUs. Through software and hardware support, UVM provides a coherent shared memory across the entire heterogeneous node, migrating data as appropriate. The older CUDA…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Rohan Garg , Apoore Mohan , Michael Sullivan , Gene Cooperman

Memcomputing is a novel computing paradigm beyond the von-Neumann one. Its digital version is designed for the efficient solution of combinatorial optimization problems, which emerge in various fields of science and technology. Previously,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Dyk Chung Nguyen , Yuan-Hang Zhang , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Yuriy V. Pershin

This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advances in deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object detection, classification, and tracking on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With the increasing demand for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

HPC applications pose high demands on I/O performance and storage capability. The emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) techniques offer low-latency, high bandwidth, and persistence for HPC applications. However, the existing I/O stack are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Wei Liu , Kai Wu , Jialin Liu , Feng Chen , Dong Li

Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as PCM, ReRAM and STT-RAM allow processors to directly write values to persistent storage at speeds that are significantly faster than previous durable media such as hard drives or SSDs. Many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Nachshon Cohen , Michal Friedman , James R. Larus

With the staggering increase of edge compute applications like Internet-of-Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), the demand for fast, energy-efficient on-chip memory is growing. While the fast and mature static random-access memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Albi Mema , Simon Thomann , Narendra Singh Dhakad , Hussam Amrouch

In recent years, memory wall has been a great performance bottleneck of computer system. To overcome it, Non-Volatile Main Memory (NVMM) technology has been discussed widely to provide a much larger main memory capacity. Last year, Intel…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Tianyue Lu , Haiyang Pan , Mingyu Chen