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RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) is widely exploited in building key-value stores to achieve ultra low latency. In RDMA-based key-value stores, the indexing time takes a large fraction (up to 74%) of the overall operation latency as RDMA…
We present enhancements to the TCP-Friendly Rate Control mechanism (TFRC) designed to better handle the intermittent connectivity occurring in mobility situations. Our aim is to quickly adapt to new network conditions and better support…
Recent literature has found that an effective method to customize or further improve large language models (LLMs) is to add dynamic adapters, such as low-rank adapters (LoRA) with Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) structures. Though such dynamic…
Sparse Matrix-matrix Multiplication (SpMM) and Sampled Dense-dense Matrix Multiplication (SDDMM) are important sparse operators in scientific computing and deep learning. Tensor Core Units (TCUs) enhance modern accelerators with superior…
Streaming coarse-grained reconfgurable array (CGRA) is a promising architecture for data/computing-intensive applications because of its fexibility, high throughput and efcient memory system. However,when accelerating sparse CNNs, the…
Data transfers are essential in today's computing systems as latency and complex memory access patterns are increasingly challenging to manage. Direct memory access engines (DMAEs) are critically needed to transfer data independently of the…
Heterogeneous reconfigurable platforms with tensor cores, such as AMD ACAP, are increasingly adopted for deep neural network (DNN) inference due to their high throughput and flexibility. However, their suitability for microsecond-scale…
Modern LLM reinforcement learning (RL) workloads require a highly efficient weight transfer system to scale training across heterogeneous computational resources. However, existing weight transfer approaches either fail to provide…
High-performance clusters and datacenters pose increasingly demanding requirements on storage systems. If these systems do not operate at scale, applications are doomed to become I/O bound and waste compute cycles. To accelerate the data…
The term "CoRE kernel" stands for correlation-resemblance kernel. In many applications (e.g., vision), the data are often high-dimensional, sparse, and non-binary. We propose two types of (nonlinear) CoRE kernels for non-binary sparse data…
Edge computing enables data processing closer to the source, significantly reducing latency, an essential requirement for real-time vision-based analytics such as object detection in surveillance and smart city environments. However, these…
We propose two new methods to address the weak scaling problems of KRR: the Balanced KRR (BKRR) and K-means KRR (KKRR). These methods consider alternative ways to partition the input dataset into p different parts, generating p different…
Ring Learning With Error (RLWE) algorithm is used in Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Homomorphic Encryption (HE) algorithm. The existing classical crypto algorithms may be broken in quantum computers. The adversaries can store all…
To support emerging applications ranging from holographic communications to extended reality, next-generation mobile wireless communication systems require ultra-fast and energy-efficient (UFEE) baseband processors. Traditional…
FPGAs are increasingly being deployed in the cloud to accelerate diverse applications. They are to be shared among multiple tenants to improve the total cost of ownership. Partial reconfiguration technology enables multi-tenancy on FPGA by…
Coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures (CGRAs) are gaining traction thanks to their performance and power efficiency. Utilizing CGRAs to accelerate the execution of tight loops holds great potential for achieving significant overall…
TCP proxies are basic building blocks for many advanced middleboxes. In this paper we present Miniproxy, a TCP proxy built on top of a specialized minimalistic cloud operating system. Miniproxy's connection handling performance is…
In this paper, we present ElfCore, a 28nm digital spiking neural network processor tailored for event-driven sensory signal processing. ElfCore is the first to efficiently integrate: (1) a local online self-supervised learning engine that…
Transformer-based models have demonstrated superior performance in various fields, including natural language processing and computer vision. However, their enormous model size and high demands in computation, memory, and communication…
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is widely used in data center networks because of its high performance. However, due to the characteristics of RDMA's retransmission strategy and the traffic mode of AI training, current load balancing…