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The memory subsystem has always been a bottleneck in performance as well as significant power contributor in memory intensive applications. Many researchers have presented multi-layered memory hierarchies as a means to design energy and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Minas Dasygenis , Erik Brockmeyer , Bart Durinck , Francky Catthoor , Dimitrios Soudris , Antonios Thanailakis

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant improvement in offline video understanding. However, extending these capabilities to streaming video inputs, remains challenging, as existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Haowei Zhang , Shudong Yang , Jinlan Fu , See-Kiong Ng , Xipeng Qiu

The application of Transformer-based large models has achieved numerous success in recent years. However, the exponential growth in the parameters of large models introduces formidable memory challenge for edge deployment. Prior works to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xueyuan Han , Zinuo Cai , Yichu Zhang , Chongxin Fan , Junhan Liu , Ruhui Ma , Rajkumar Buyya

With the increasing popularity of recommendation systems (RecSys), the demand for compute resources in datacenters has surged. However, the model-wise resource allocation employed in current RecSys model serving architectures falls short in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yujeong Choi , Jiin Kim , Minsoo Rhu

Resource allocation in High Performance Computing (HPC) settings is still not easy for end-users due to the wide variety of application and environment configuration options. Users have difficulties to estimate the number of processors and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Eduardo R. Rodrigues , Renato L. F. Cunha , Marco A. S. Netto , Michael Spriggs

The ever-increasing gap between compute and I/O performance in HPC platforms, together with the development of novel NVMe storage devices (NVRAM), led to the emergence of the burst buffer concept - an intermediate persistent storage layer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jan Kopanski , Krzysztof Rzadca

Efficient scheduling of LLM inference tasks is essential for achieving low latency and high throughput, particularly with the growing use of reasoning-capable LLMs. Traditional strategies like First-Come-First-Serve (FCFS) often suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yiheng Tao , Yihe Zhang , Matthew T. Dearing , Xin Wang , Yuping Fan , Zhiling Lan

Distributed Machine Learning (DML) on resource-constrained edge devices holds immense potential for real-world applications. However, achieving fast convergence in DML in these heterogeneous environments remains a significant challenge.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Advik Raj Basani , Siddharth Chaitra Vivek , Advaith Krishna , Arnab K. Paul

Currently, there is a growing trend of outsourcing the execution of DNNs to cloud services. For service providers, managing multi-tenancy and ensuring high-quality service delivery, particularly in meeting stringent execution time…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Francesco G. Blanco , Enrico Russo , Maurizio Palesi , Davide Patti , Giuseppe Ascia , Vincenzo Catania

Large language model (LLM) serving demands low latency and high throughput, but high load variability makes it challenging to achieve high GPU utilization. In this paper, we identify a synergetic but overlooked opportunity to co-serve…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yifan Qiao , Shu Anzai , Shan Yu , Haoran Ma , Shuo Yang , Yang Wang , Miryung Kim , Yongji Wu , Yang Zhou , Jiarong Xing , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Harry Xu

Serverless Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a cost-effective solution for deploying AI services by enabling a 'pay-as-you-go' pricing model through GPU resource sharing. However, cold-start latency, especially the model loading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenbin Zhu , Zhaoyan Shen , Zili Shao , Hongjun Dai , Feng Chen

High load latency that results from deep cache hierarchies and relatively slow main memory is an important limiter of single-thread performance. Data prefetch helps reduce this latency by fetching data up the hierarchy before it is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Majid Jalili , Mattan Erez

In the past few years, we have envisioned an increasing number of businesses start driving by big data analytics, such as Amazon recommendations and Google Advertisements. At the back-end side, the businesses are powered by big data…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ying Mao , Victoria Green , Jiayin Wang , Haoyi Xiong , Zhishan Guo

The increasing adoption of large language models (LLMs) necessitates inference serving systems that can deliver both high throughput and low latency. Deploying LLMs with hundreds of billions of parameters on memory-constrained GPUs exposes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Bowen Pang , Kai Li , Feifan Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have excelled in various applications, yet serving them at scale is challenging due to their substantial resource demands and high latency. Our real-world studies reveal that over 70% of user requests to LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yifan Yu , Yu Gan , Nikhil Sarda , Lillian Tsai , Jiaming Shen , Yanqi Zhou , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Fan Lai , Henry M. Levy , David Culler

Attention mechanisms underpin the success of large language models (LLMs), yet their substantial computational and memory overhead poses challenges for optimizing efficiency and performance. A critical bottleneck arises as KV cache and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Luoyang Sun , Cheng Deng , Jiwen Jiang , Xinjian Wu , Haifeng Zhang , Lei Chen , Lionel Ni , Jun Wang

Low latency communication is one of the fundamental requirements for 5G wireless networks and beyond. In this paper, a novel approach for joint caching, user scheduling and resource allocation is proposed for minimizing the queuing latency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Tamoor-ul-Hassan Syed , Samarakoon Sumudu , Bennis Mehdi , Matti Latva-aho

The proliferation of innovative mobile services such as augmented reality, networked gaming, and autonomous driving has spurred a growing need for low-latency access to computing resources that cannot be met solely by existing centralized…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Konstantinos Poularakis , Jaime Llorca , Antonia M. Tulino , Ian Taylor , Leandros Tassiulas

Inference serving is of great importance in deploying machine learning models in real-world applications, ensuring efficient processing and quick responses to inference requests. However, managing resources in these systems poses…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Kamran Razavi , Mehran Salmani , Max Mühlhäuser , Boris Koldehofe , Lin Wang

Memory tiering in datacenters does not achieve its full potential due to hotness fragmentation -- the intermingling of hot and cold objects within memory pages. This fragmentation prevents page-based reclamation systems from distinguishing…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Vinay Banakar , Suli Yang , Kan Wu , Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau , Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau , Kimberly Keeton