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Hot-spots are considered among the unavoidable consequences of the high integration density of 3D-ICs. Eliminating hot spots requires employing efficient cooling techniques. Using embedded channels, liquid cooling systems can be designed to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Sakib Islam , Ibrahim Abdel-Motaleb

Existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generate massive interlayer feature data during network inference. To maintain real-time processing in embedded systems, large on-chip memory is required to buffer the interlayer feature…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Zhuang Shao , Xiaoliang Chen , Li Du , Lei Chen , Yuan Du , Wei Zhuang , Huadong Wei , Chenjia Xie , Zhongfeng Wang

To overcome the well-known memory bottleneck of AI chips, 3D stacked architectures that employ advanced packaging technology with high-density through-silicon vias (TSVs) pins have proven to be a promising solution. The 3D-stacked AI chip…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yiqi Liu , Noelle Crawford , Michael Wang , Jilong Xue , Jian Huang

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serving systems commonly employ KV-cache compression to reduce memory footprint. However, existing compression methods introduce significant processing overhead and queuing delays, particularly in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jianian Zhu , Hang Wu , Haojie Wang , Yinghui Li , Biao Hou , Ruixuan Li , Jidong Zhai

Learned image compression allows achieving state-of-the-art accuracy and compression ratios, but their relatively slow runtime performance limits their usage. While previous attempts on optimizing learned image codecs focused more on the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-04 Fangzheng Lin , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto

Major chip manufacturers have all introduced multicore microprocessors. Multi-socket systems built from these processors are used for running various server applications. Depending on the application that is run on the system, remote memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Murthy Durbhakula

Heterogeneous MPSoCs comprise diverse processing units of varying compute capabilities. To date, the mapping strategies of neural networks (NNs) onto such systems are yet to exploit the full potential of processing parallelism, made…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Halima Bouzidi , Mohanad Odema , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Smail Niar , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

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

Modern smart distribution system requires storage, transmission and processing of big data generated by sensors installed in electric meters. On one hand, this data is essentially required for intelligent decision making by smart grid but…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-19 Syed Muhammad Atif , Anees Ahmed , Sameer Qazi

Mobile and embedded machine learning developers frequently have to compromise between two inferior on-device deployment strategies: sacrifice accuracy and aggressively shrink their models to run on dedicated low-power cores; or sacrifice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Haiguang Li , Trausti Thormundsson , Ivan Poupyrev , Nicholas Gillian

With high-performance computing systems now running at exascale, optimizing power-scaling management and resource utilization has become more critical than ever. This paper explores runtime power-capping optimizations that leverage…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Maria Patrou , Thomas Wang , Wael Elwasif , Markus Eisenbach , Ross Miller , William Godoy , Oscar Hernandez

The rapid growth of deep neural network (DNN) workloads has significantly increased the demand for large-capacity on-chip SRAM in machine learning (ML) applications, with SRAM arrays now occupying a substantial fraction of the total die…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Subhradip Chakraborty , Ankur Singh , Xuming Chen , Gourav Datta , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

In this paper, we study a problem of controlling cooling facilities and computational equipments for energy-efficient operations of data centers. Although a plethora of approaches have been proposed in previous literatures, there is a lack…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Masaki Ogura , Jianxiong Wan , Shoji Kasahara

In modern large-scale distributed systems, analytics jobs submitted by various users often share similar work, for example scanning and processing the same subset of data. Instead of optimizing jobs independently, which may result in…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Pietro Michiardi , Damiano Carra , Sara Migliorini

3D integration offers key advantages in improving system performance and efficiency for the End-of-Scaling era. It enables the incorporation of heterogeneous system components and disparate technologies, eliminates off-chip communication…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Eren Kurshan , Paul Franzon

This paper presents a technique for eliminating redundant cache-tag and cache-way accesses to reduce power consumption. The basic idea is to keep a small number of Most Recently Used (MRU) addresses in a Memory Address Buffer (MAB) and to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Tohru Ishihara , Farzan Fallah

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

Scientific simulation leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) systems is crucial for modeling complex systems and phenomena in fields such as astrophysics, climate science, and fluid dynamics, generating massive datasets that often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Wenqi Jia , Ying Huang , Jian Xu , Zhewen Hu , Sian Jin , Jiannan Tian , Yuede Ji , Miao Yin

Today's exponentially increasing data volumes and the high cost of storage make compression essential for the Big Data industry. Although research has concentrated on efficient compression, fast decompression is critical for analytics…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Evangelia Sitaridi , Rene Mueller , Tim Kaldewey , Guy Lohman , Kenneth Ross

Directory-based protocols have been the de facto solution for maintaining cache coherence in shared-memory parallel systems comprising multi/many cores, where each store instruction is eagerly made globally visible by invalidating the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Daofu Liu , Yunji Chen , Qi Guo , Tianshi Chen , Ling Li , Qunfeng Dong , Weiwu Hu