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Programmability, performance portability, and resource efficiency have emerged as critical challenges in harnessing complex and diverse architectures today to obtain high performance and energy efficiency. While there is abundant research,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Nandita Vijaykumar

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

This paper proposes a novel three tier architecture for federated learning to optimize edge computing environments. The proposed architecture addresses the challenges associated with client data heterogeneity and computational constraints.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Satwat Bashir , Tasos Dagiuklas , Kasra Kassai , Muddesar Iqbal

The effective use of parallel computing resources to speed up algorithms in current multi-core parallel architectures remains a difficult challenge, with ease of programming playing a key role in the eventual success of various parallel…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Arash Farzan , Alejandro López-Ortiz , Patrick K. Nicholson , Alejandro Salinger

Major advancements in the capabilities of computer vision models have been primarily fueled by rapid expansion of datasets, model parameters, and computational budgets, leading to ever-increasing demands on computational infrastructure.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Steven Walton

Compute and memory are tightly coupled within each server in traditional datacenters. Large-scale datacenter operators have identified this coupling as a root cause behind fleet-wide resource underutilization and increasing Total Cost of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Hasan Al Maruf , Mosharaf Chowdhury

Poor DRAM technology scaling over the course of many years has caused DRAM-based main memory to increasingly become a larger system bottleneck. A major reason for the bottleneck is that data stored within DRAM must be moved across a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Saugata Ghose , Kevin Hsieh , Amirali Boroumand , Rachata Ausavarungnirun , Onur Mutlu

After Amdahl's trailblazing work, many other authors proposed analytical speedup models but none have considered the limiting effect of the memory wall. These models exploited aspects such as problem-size variation, memory size,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Alex F. A. Furtunato , Kyriakos Georgiou , Kerstin Eder , Samuel Xavier-de-Souza

Traditional data centers are designed with a rigid architecture of fit-for-purpose servers that provision resources beyond the average workload in order to deal with occasional peaks of data. Heterogeneous data centers are pushing towards…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Carlos Vega , Jose Fernando Zazo , Hugo Meyer , Ferad Zyulkyarov , Sergio Lopez Buedo , Javier Aracil

Federated learning is an emerging research paradigm enabling collaborative training of machine learning models among different organizations while keeping data private at each institution. Despite recent progress, there remain fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Liangqiong Qu , Yuyin Zhou , Paul Pu Liang , Yingda Xia , Feifei Wang , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei , Daniel Rubin

The remarkable progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is foundation-ally linked to a concurrent revolution in computer architecture. As AI models, particularly Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), have grown in complexity, their massive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shahid Amin , Syed Pervez Hussnain Shah

This paper presents the Neural Cache architecture, which re-purposes cache structures to transform them into massively parallel compute units capable of running inferences for Deep Neural Networks. Techniques to do in-situ arithmetic in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Charles Eckert , Xiaowei Wang , Jingcheng Wang , Arun Subramaniyan , Ravi Iyer , Dennis Sylvester , David Blaauw , Reetuparna Das

Many modern workloads such as neural network inference and graph processing are fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, data movement between memory and CPU cores imposes a significant overhead in terms of both latency and energy. A…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Ivan Fernandez , Christina Giannoula , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Onur Mutlu

The continued growth of the computational capability of throughput processors has made throughput processors the platform of choice for a wide variety of high performance computing applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a prime…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Rachata Ausavarungnirun

Large language model (LLM) inference performance is increasingly bottlenecked by the memory wall. While GPUs continue to scale raw compute throughput, they struggle to deliver scalable performance for memory bandwidth bound workloads. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Matthew Adiletta , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

Because most technology and computer architecture innovations were (intentionally) invisible to higher layers, application and other software developers could reap the benefits of this progress without engaging in it. Higher performance has…

Memory bandwidth bottleneck is a major challenges in processing machine learning (ML) algorithms. In-memory acceleration has potential to address this problem; however, it needs to address two challenges. First, in-memory accelerator should…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Hajar Falahati , Pejman Lotfi-Kamran , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

Increasing investment in computing technologies and the advancements in silicon technology has fueled rapid growth in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and corresponding SoC developments. An ADAS SoC represents a heterogeneous…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Hao Luan , Yu Yao , Chang Huang

Memory bandwidth is critical in today's high performance computing systems. The bandwidth is particularly paramount for GPU workloads such as 3D Gaming, Imaging and Perceptual Computing, GPGPU due to their data-intensive nature. As the…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Ishwar Bhati , Udit Dhawan , Jayesh Gaur , Sreenivas Subramoney , Hong Wang

Memory-centric computing aims to enable computation capability in and near all places where data is generated and stored. As such, it can greatly reduce the large negative performance and energy impact of data access and data movement, by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Onur Mutlu