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Reconfigurable architectures, such as FPGAs, enable the execution of code at the electronics level, avoiding the assumptions imposed by the general purpose black-box micro-architectures of CPUs and GPUs. Such tailored execution can result…

Arbitrary-precision integer multiplication is the core kernel of many applications in simulation, cryptography, etc. Existing acceleration of arbitrary-precision integer multiplication includes CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs. Among these…

The Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) is a new architecture that combines AI Engines (AIEs) with reconfigurable fabric. This architecture offers significant acceleration potential for uniform recurrences in various…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) remain prevalent in computer vision applications, and FPGAs, known for their flexibility and energy efficiency, have become essential components in heterogeneous acceleration systems. However,…

Transformer uses GPU as the initial design platform, but GPU can only perform limited hardware customization. Although FPGA has strong customization ability, the design solution space is huge and the design difficulty is high. Versal ACAP…

Complex, high-throughput data acquisition and processing systems, such as those used in high-energy physics experiments, are increasingly moving sophisticated pattern recognition and data compression algorithms closer to the sensors…

Dense matrix multiply (MM) serves as one of the most heavily used kernels in deep learning applications. To cope with the high computation demands of these applications, heterogeneous architectures featuring both FPGA and dedicated ASIC…

Whilst Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been popular in accelerating high-frequency financial workload for many years, their application in quantitative finance, the utilisation of mathematical models to analyse financial markets…

This paper investigates the design of parallel general matrix multiplication (GEMM) for a Versal Adaptive Compute Accelerated Platform (ACAP) equipped with a VC1902 system-on-chip and multiple Artificial Intelligence Engines (AIEs). Our…

Accelerated computing is widely used in high-performance computing. Therefore, it is crucial to experiment and discover how to better utilize GPUGPUs latest generations on relevant applications. In this paper, we present results and share…

High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms allow scientists to model computationally intensive algorithms. HPC clusters increasingly use General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) as accelerators; FPGAs provide an attractive…

As the increasing complexity of Neural Network(NN) models leads to high demands for computation, AMD introduces a heterogeneous programmable system-on-chip (SoC), i.e., Versal ACAP architectures featured with programmable logic (PL), CPUs,…

This work explores the use of the AMD Xilinx Versal Adaptable Intelligent Engine (AIE) to accelerate Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) inference for latency constrained applications. We present a custom workload distribution framework across the…

We present a portable platform, called PIC_ENGINE, for accelerating Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes on heterogeneous many-core architectures such as Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The aim of this development is efficient simulations on…

The Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) is an accelerator that combines hundreds of thousands of AI-cores onto a single chip. Whilst this technology has been designed for machine learning workloads, the significant amount of available raw…

Stencil computations are a fundamental kernel in scientific computing, critical for simulations in domains such as fluid dynamics and climate modeling. However, these computations are often memory-bound on traditional High-Performance…

General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a fundamental operation in many scientific workloads, signal processing, and particularly deep learning. It is often a bottleneck for performance and energy efficiency, especially in edge environments…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have revolutionized many Machine Learning (ML) applications, such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, etc. GNN inference can be accelerated by exploiting data sparsity in the input graph, vertex…

As investment in AI-focused accelerators grows and their deployment in supercomputing facilities expands, understanding whether these architectures can efficiently support traditional scientific kernels is critical for the future of…

The proliferation of high-throughput sequencing machines ensures rapid generation of up to billions of short nucleotide fragments in a short period of time. This massive amount of sequence data can quickly overwhelm today's storage and…