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Modern computing platforms tend to deploy multiple GPUs (2, 4, or more) on a single node to boost system performance, with each GPU having a large capacity of global memory and streaming multiprocessors (SMs). GPUs are an expensive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Chao Chen , Chris Porter , Santosh Pande

Serving deep neural networks in latency critical interactive settings often requires GPU acceleration. However, the small batch sizes typical in online inference results in poor GPU utilization, a potential performance gap which GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Paras Jain , Xiangxi Mo , Ajay Jain , Harikaran Subbaraj , Rehan Sohail Durrani , Alexey Tumanov , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

GPUs are readily available in cloud computing and personal devices, but their use for data processing acceleration has been slowed down by their limited integration with common programming languages such as Python or Java. Moreover, using…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Alberto Parravicini , Arnaud Delamare , Marco Arnaboldi , Marco D. Santambrogio

Memory bandwidth is known to be a performance bottleneck for FPGA accelerators, especially when they deal with large multi-dimensional data-sets. A large body of work focuses on reducing of off-chip transfers, but few authors try to improve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Corentin Ferry , Nicolas Derumigny , Steven Derrien , Sanjay Rajopadhye

Maintaining computational load balance is important to the performant behavior of codes which operate under a distributed computing model. This is especially true for GPU architectures, which can suffer from memory oversubscription if…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Michael E. Rowan , Axel Huebl , Kevin N. Gott , Jack Deslippe , Maxence Thévenet , Remi Lehe , Jean-Luc Vay

Linear-time algorithms that are traditionally used to shuffle data on CPUs, such as the method of Fisher-Yates, are not well suited to implementation on GPUs due to inherent sequential dependencies, and existing parallel shuffling…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Rory Mitchell , Daniel Stokes , Eibe Frank , Geoffrey Holmes

GPUs have become indispensable in high-performance computing, machine learning, and many other domains. Efficiently utilizing the memory subsystem on GPUs is critical for maximizing computing power through massive parallelism. Analyzing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yanbo Zhao , Jinku Cui , Zecheng Li , Shuyin Jiao , Xu Liu , Jiajia Li

Real time processing for teamwork action recognition is a challenge, due to complex computational models to achieve high system performance. Hence, this paper proposes a framework based on Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to achieve a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Mohamed Elhoseiny , Hossam Faheem , Taymour Nazmy , Eman Shaaban

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently exploded in popularity thanks to their broad applicability to graph-related problems such as quantum chemistry, drug discovery, and high energy physics. However, meeting demand for novel GNN models…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Rishov Sarkar , Stefan Abi-Karam , Yuqi He , Lakshmi Sathidevi , Cong Hao

In an effort to lower the barrier to the adoption of FPGAs by a broader community, today major FPGA vendors offer compiler toolchains for OpenCL code. While using these toolchain allows porting existing code to FPGAs, ensuring performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Mostafa Eghbali Zarch , Michela Becchi

Hardware accelerators like GPUs are now ubiquitous in data centers, but are not fully supported by common cloud abstractions such as Functions as a Service (FaaS). Many popular and emerging FaaS applications such as machine learning and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Alexander Fuerst , Siddharth Anil , Vishakha Dixit , Purushottam , Kulkarni , Prateek Sharma

In order to improve system performance efficiently, a number of systems choose to equip multi-core and many-core processors (such as GPUs). Due to their discrete memory these heterogeneous architectures comprise a distributed system within…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Hao Wu , Daniel Lohmann , Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

Graphics Processing Unit, or GPUs, have been successfully adopted both for graphic computation in 3D applications, and for general purpose application (GP-GPUs), thank to their tremendous performance-per-watt. Recently, there is a big…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Paolo Burgio

General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit(GPGPU) is used widely for achieving high performance or high throughput in parallel programming. This capability of GPGPUs is very famous in the new era and mostly used for scientific computing which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Vajira Thambawita , Roshan G. Ragel , Dhammike Elkaduwe

GPUs are uniquely suited to accelerate (SQL) analytics workloads thanks to their massive compute parallelism and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) -- when datasets fit in the GPU HBM, performance is unparalleled. Unfortunately, GPU HBMs remain…

Edge computing and IoT applications are severely constrained by limited hardware resource. This makes memory consuming DNN frameworks not applicable to edge computing. Simple algorithms such as direct convolution are finding their way in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Xianwei Cheng , Hui Zhao , Mahmut Kandemir , Saraju Mohanty , Beilei Jiang

Performance in modern GPU-centric systems increasingly depends on resource management policies, including memory placement, scheduling, and observability. However, uniform policies typically yield suboptimal performance across diverse…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yusheng Zheng , Tong Yu , Yiwei Yang , Minghui Jiang , Xiangyu Gao , Jianchang Su , Yanpeng Hu , Wenan Mao , Wei Zhang , Dan Williams , Andi Quinn

Nowadays, the data to be processed by database systems has grown so large that any conventional, centralized technique is inadequate. At the same time, general purpose computation on GPU (GPGPU) recently has successfully drawn attention…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Georgios Koutsoumpakis , Iakovos Koutsoumpakis , Anastasios Gounaris

Scheduling real-time tasks that utilize GPUs with analyzable guarantees poses a significant challenge due to the intricate interaction between CPU and GPU resources, as well as the complex GPU hardware and software stack. While much…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yidi Wang , Cong Liu , Daniel Wong , Hyoseung Kim

We introduce FastGraph, a novel GPU-optimized k-nearest neighbor algorithm specifically designed to accelerate graph construction in low-dimensional spaces (2-10 dimensions), critical for high-performance graph neural networks. Our method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Aarush Agarwal , Raymond He , Jan Kieseler , Matteo Cremonesi , Shah Rukh Qasim