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Memory allocation, though constituting only a small portion of the executed code, can have a "butterfly effect" on overall program performance, leading to significant and far-reaching impacts. Despite accounting for just approximately 5% of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ruihao Li , Qinzhe Wu , Krishna Kavi , Gayatri Mehta , Jonathan C. Beard , Neeraja J. Yadwadkar , Lizy K. John

PIM architectures aim to reduce data transfer costs between processors and memory by integrating processing units within memory layers. Prior PIM architectures have shown potential to improve energy efficiency and performance. However, such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Parker Hao Tian , Zahra Yousefijamarani , Alaa Alameldeen

The speed of modern digital systems is severely limited by memory latency (the ``Memory Wall'' problem). Data exchange between Logic and Memory is also responsible for a large part of the system energy consumption. Logic--In--Memory (LiM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Fabrizio Ottati , Giovanna Turvani , Marco Vacca , Guido Masera

With the rapid development of DNN applications, multi-tenant execution, where multiple DNNs are co-located on a single SoC, is becoming a prevailing trend. Although many methods are proposed in prior works to improve multi-tenant…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Tianhao Cai , Liang Wang , Limin Xiao , Meng Han , Zeyu Wang , Lin Sun , Xiaojian Liao

Memory latency, bandwidth, capacity, and energy increasingly limit performance. In this paper, we reconsider proposed system architectures that consist of huge (many-terabyte to petabyte scale) memories shared among large numbers of CPUs.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Samuel Dayo , Shuhan Liu , Peijing Li , Philip Levis , Subhasish Mitra , Thierry Tambe , David Tennenhouse , H. -S. Philip Wong

The performance gains obtained by large language models (LLMs) are closely linked to their substantial computational and memory requirements. Quantized LLMs offer significant advantages with extremely quantized models, motivating the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ahmed J. Abdelmaksoud , Cristian Sestito , Shiwei Wang , Themis Prodromakis

Growing interest in semiconductor workforce development has generated demand for platforms capable of supporting large numbers of independent hardware designs for research and training without imposing high per-project overhead. Traditional…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jeongeun Kim , Sabrina Yarzada , Paul Chen , Christopher Torng

Over the last three decades, innovations in the memory subsystem were primarily targeted at overcoming the data movement bottleneck. In this paper, we focus on a specific market trend in memory technology: 3D-stacked memory and caches. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jens Domke , Emil Vatai , Balazs Gerofi , Yuetsu Kodama , Mohamed Wahib , Artur Podobas , Sparsh Mittal , Miquel Pericàs , Lingqi Zhang , Peng Chen , Aleksandr Drozd , Satoshi Matsuoka

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

Theoretically, the three-dimensional (3D) array architecture provides a higher communication degree of freedom (DoF) compared to the planar arrays, allowing for greater capacity potential in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems.…

Three-dimensional integration technologies such as flip-chip bonding are a key prerequisite to realize large-scale superconducting quantum processors. Modular architectures, in which circuit elements are spread over multiple chips, can…

High Performance and Energy Efficiency are critical requirements for Internet of Things (IoT) end-nodes. Exploiting tightly-coupled clusters of programmable processors (CMPs) has recently emerged as a suitable solution to address this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jie Chen , Igor Loi , Eric Flamand , Giuseppe Tagliavini , Luca Benini , Davide Rossi

Recently, hybrid architectures using accelerators like GPGPUs or the Cell processor have gained much interest in the HPC community. The RapidMind Multi-Core Development Platform is a programming environment that allows generating code which…

Performance · Computer Science 2010-02-19 Iris Christadler , Volker Weinberg

GPGPU applications exploit on-chip scratchpad memory available in the Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to improve performance. The amount of thread level parallelism present in the GPU is limited by the number of resident threads, which in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Vishwesh Jatala , Jayvant Anantpur , Amey Karkare

With the widespread use of deep neural networks(DNNs) in intelligent systems, DNN accelerators with high performance and energy efficiency are greatly demanded. As one of the feasible processing-in-memory(PIM) architectures,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Junpeng Wang , Mengke Ge , Bo Ding , Qi Xu , Song Chen , Yi Kang

In this paper, we use multithreaded fast Fourier transforms provided in three highly optimized packages, FFTW-2.1.5, FFTW-3.3.7, and Intel MKL FFT, to present a novel model-based parallel computing technique as a very effective and portable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Semyon Khokhriakov , Ravi Reddy , Alexey Lastovetsky

Parallel programming is emerging fast and intensive applications need more resources, so there is a huge demand for on-chip multiprocessors. Accessing L1 caches beside the cores are the fastest after registers but the size of private caches…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Diman Zad Tootaghaj , Farshid Farhat

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly require processing long text sequences, but GPU memory limitations force difficult trade-offs between memory capacity and bandwidth. While HBM-based acceleration offers high bandwidth, its capacity…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Qingyuan Liu , Liyan Chen , Yanning Yang , Haocheng Wang , Dong Du , Zhigang Mao , Naifeng Jing , Yubin Xia , Haibo Chen

The first contribution of this paper is the development of extremely dense, energy-efficient mixed-signal vector-by-matrix-multiplication (VMM) circuits based on the existing 3D-NAND flash memory blocks, without any need for their…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Mohammad Bavandpour , Shubham Sahay , Mohammad Reza Mahmoodi , Dmitri B. Strukov

With power consumption becoming a critical processor design issue, specialized architectures for low power processing are becoming popular. Several studies have shown that neural networks can be used for signal processing and pattern…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Raqibul Hasan , Tarek M. Taha , Chris Yakopcic , David J. Mountain