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We study abstraction for crash-resilient concurrent objects using non-volatile memory (NVM). We develop a library correctness criterion that is sound for ensuring contextual refinement in this setting, thus allowing clients to reason about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Artem Khyzha , Ori Lahav

Resilience is a major design goal for HPC. Checkpoint is the most common method to enable resilient HPC. Checkpoint periodically saves critical data objects to non-volatile storage to enable data persistence. However, using checkpoint, we…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Yingchao Huang , Kai Wu , Dong Li

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) is promising for building future HPC. Leveraging the non-volatility of NVM as main memory, we can restart the application using data objects remaining on NVM when the application crashes. This paper…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Jie Ren , Kai Wu , Dong Li

Massively parallel Fourier transforms are widely used in computational sciences, and specifically in computational fluid dynamics which involves unbounded Poisson problems. In practice the latter is usually the most time-consuming operation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Pierre Balty , Philippe Chatelain , Thomas Gillis

The advent of non-volatile main memory (NVM) enables the development of crash-consistent software without paying storage stack overhead. However, building a correct crash-consistent program remains very challenging in the presence of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Xinwei Fu , Wook-Hee Kim , Ajay Paddayuru Shreepathi , Mohannad Ismail , Sunny Wadkar , Changwoo Min , Dongyoon Lee

Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to improving the computing speed and energy efficiency in dataintensive applications. Beyond existing CiM techniques of bitwise logic-in-memory operations and dot product operations, this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yiming Chen , Yushen Fu , Mingyen Lee , Sumitha George , Yongpan Liu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li

Memory profiling captures programs' dynamic memory behavior, assisting programmers in debugging, tuning, and enabling advanced compiler optimizations like speculation-based automatic parallelization. As each use case demands its unique…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ziyang Xu , Yebin Chon , Yian Su , Zujun Tan , Sotiris Apostolakis , Simone Campanoni , David I. August

Dynamic sparsity, where the sparsity patterns are unknown until runtime, poses a significant challenge to deep learning. The state-of-the-art sparsity-aware deep learning solutions are restricted to pre-defined, static sparsity patterns due…

Processing In Memory (PIM) accelerators are promising architecture that can provide massive parallelization and high efficiency in various applications. Such architectures can instantaneously provide ultra-fast operation over extensive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Kazi Abu Zubair , Sumit Kumar Jha , David Mohaisen , Clayton Hughes , Amro Awad

Patch reviewing is critical for software development, especially in distributed open-source development, which highly depends on voluntary work, such as Linux. This paper studies the past 10 years of patch reviews of the Linux memory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Chih-En Lin , Attreyee Mukherjee , Ajay Rawat , Ruqi Zhang , Pedro Fonseca

We present Stamp-it, a new, concurrent, lock-less memory reclamation scheme with amortized, constant-time (thread-count independent) reclamation overhead. Stamp-it has been implemented and proved correct in the C++ memory model using as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Manuel Pöter , Jesper Larsson Träff

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies promise memory speed byte-addressable persistent storage with a load/store interface. However, programming applications to directly manipulate NVM data is complex and error-prone. Applications…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Pradeep Fernando , Irina Calciu , Jayneel Gandhi , Aasheesh Kolli , Ada Gavrilovska

Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) is a core library in scientific computing and machine learning. This paper presents FT-BLAS, a new implementation of BLAS routines that not only tolerates soft errors on the fly, but also provides…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Yujia Zhai , Elisabeth Giem , Quan Fan , Kai Zhao , Jinyang Liu , Zizhong Chen

In the realm of high-frequency data streams, achieving real-time learning within varying memory constraints is paramount. This paper presents Ferret, a comprehensive framework designed to enhance online accuracy of Online Continual Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yuhao Zhou , Yuxin Tian , Jindi Lv , Mingjia Shi , Yuanxi Li , Qing Ye , Shuhao Zhang , Jiancheng Lv

Existing language-based information-flow control (IFC) tools face a fundamental tension: Denning-style systems that track explicit and implicit flows at the variable level typically require compiler modifications, while more coarse-grained…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jeffrey C. Ching , Quan Zhou , Danfeng Zhang

In order to efficiently use the future generations of supercomputers, fault tolerance and power consumption are two of the prime challenges anticipated by the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. Checkpoint/Restart (CR) has been and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Faisal Shahzad , Jonas Thies , Moritz Kreutzer , Thomas Zeiser , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein

Transformer-based models, such as BERT and ViT, have achieved state-of-the-art results across different natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) tasks. However, these models are extremely memory intensive during their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Arash Ardakani , Altan Haan , Shangyin Tan , Doru Thom Popovici , Alvin Cheung , Costin Iancu , Koushik Sen

Machine learning algorithms, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Deep Neural Network (DNN), have gained a lot of interests recently. When training a machine learning algorithm, randomly shuffle all the training data can improve the…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Zhi-Lin Ke , Hsiang-Yun Cheng , Chia-Lin Yang

Persistent memory provides high-performance data persistence at main memory. Memory writes need to be performed in strict order to satisfy storage consistency requirements and enable correct recovery from system crashes. Unfortunately,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Youyou Lu , Jiwu Shu , Long Sun , Onur Mutlu

Byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) features high density, DRAM comparable performance, and persistence. These characteristics position NVM as a promising new tier in the memory hierarchy. Nevertheless, NVM has asymmetric read and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Ivy B. Peng , Maya B. Gokhale , Eric W. Green