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While reduction in feature size makes computation cheaper in terms of latency, area, and power consumption, performance of emerging data-intensive applications is determined by data movement. These trends have introduced the concept of…
Resource disaggregation offers a cost effective solution to resource scaling, utilization, and failure-handling in data centers by physically separating hardware devices in a server. Servers are architected as pools of processor, memory,…
We demonstrate that general-purpose memory allocation involving many threads on many cores can be done with high performance, multicore scalability, and low memory consumption. For this purpose, we have designed and implemented scalloc, a…
Memory disaggregation over RDMA can improve the performance of memory-constrained applications by replacing disk swapping with remote memory accesses. However, state-of-the-art memory disaggregation solutions still use data path components…
Memory disaggregation has emerged as an alternative to traditional server architecture in data centers. This paper introduces DRackSim, a simulation infrastructure to model rack-scale hardware disaggregated memory. DRackSim models multiple…
Cognitive simulation (CogSim) is an important and emerging workflow for HPC scientific exploration and scientific machine learning (SciML). One challenging workload for CogSim is the replacement of one component in a complex physical…
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In our exploration of Composable Memory systems utilizing CXL, we focus on overcoming adoption barriers at Hyperscale, underscored by economic models demonstrating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). While CXL addresses the pressing memory…
Current HPC systems provide memory resources that are statically configured and tightly coupled with compute nodes. However, workloads on HPC systems are evolving. Diverse workloads lead to a need for configurable memory resources to…
Computing-in-Memory (CIM) architectures have emerged as a promising solution for accelerating Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by mitigating data movement bottlenecks. However, realizing the potential of CIM requires specialized dataflow…
We present Dinomo, a novel key-value store for disaggregated persistent memory (DPM). Dinomo is the first key-value store for DPM that simultaneously achieves high common-case performance, scalability, and lightweight online…
LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) is widely used for autonomous navigation, but its deployment on Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP)-constrained platforms remains challenging due to the computational cost of processing dense point clouds.…
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) or energy disaggregation, aims to disaggregate a household's electricity consumption into constituent appliances. More than three decades of work in NILM has resulted in the development of several novel…
The concept of memory disaggregation has recently been gaining traction in research. With memory disaggregation, data center compute nodes can directly access memory on adjacent nodes and are therefore able to overcome local memory…
Disaggregated memory architectures provide benefits to applications beyond traditional scale out environments, such as independent scaling of compute and memory resources. They also provide an independent failure model, where computations…
Disaggregated memory is an upcoming data center technology that will allow nodes (servers) to share data efficiently. Sharing data creates a debate on the level of cache coherence the system should provide. While current proposals aim to…
The diversity of workload requirements and increasing hardware heterogeneity in emerging high performance computing (HPC) systems motivate resource disaggregation. Resource disaggregation allows compute and memory resources to be allocated…
Compute Express Link (CXL) is a rapidly emerging coherent interconnect standard that provides opportunities for memory pooling and sharing. Memory sharing is a well-established software feature that improves memory utilization by avoiding…
Memory is a critical design consideration in current data-intensive DNN accelerators, as it profoundly determines energy consumption, bandwidth requirements, and area costs. As DNN structures become more complex, a larger on-chip memory…