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Over the last couple of years it has been realized that the vast computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) could be harvested for purposes other than the video game industry. This power, which at least nominally exceeds that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-26 Martin Weigel

Typically, Ultra-deep neural network(UDNN) tends to yield high-quality model, but its training process is usually resource intensive and time-consuming. Modern GPU's scarce DRAM capacity is the primary bottleneck that hinders the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Jinrong Guo , Wantao Liu , Wang Wang , Qu Lu , Songlin Hu , Jizhong Han , Ruixuan Li

Most Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) algorithms require a prohibitively large number of training samples for learning complex tasks. Many recent works on speeding up Deep RL have focused on distributed training and simulation. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jacky Liang , Viktor Makoviychuk , Ankur Handa , Nuttapong Chentanez , Miles Macklin , Dieter Fox

EdgeAI (Edge computing based Artificial Intelligence) has been most actively researched for the last few years to handle variety of massively distributed AI applications to meet up the strict latency requirements. Meanwhile, many companies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Stephan Patrick Baller , Anshul Jindal , Mohak Chadha , Michael Gerndt

Evolutionary computing (EC) has proven to be effective in solving complex optimization and robotics problems. Unfortunately, typical Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are constrained by the computational capacity available to researchers. More…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Rustam Eynaliyev , Houcen Liu

Learning an algorithm from examples is a fundamental problem that has been widely studied. Recently it has been addressed using neural networks, in particular by Neural Turing Machines (NTMs). These are fully differentiable computers that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Łukasz Kaiser , Ilya Sutskever

The exponential growth in data has intensified the demand for computational power to train large-scale deep learning models. However, the rapid growth in model size and complexity raises concerns about equal and fair access to computational…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Lisan Al Amin , Md Ismail Hossain , Rupak Kumar Das , Mahbubul Islam , Abdulaziz Tabbakh

In recent decades, High Performance Computing (HPC) has undergone significant enhancements, particularly in the realm of hardware platforms, aimed at delivering increased processing power while keeping power consumption within reasonable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-03 S. -Kazem Shekofteh , Christian Alles , Nils Kochendörfer , Holger Fröning

Deep learning researchers and practitioners usually leverage GPUs to help train their deep neural networks (DNNs) faster. However, choosing which GPU to use is challenging both because (i) there are many options, and (ii) users grapple with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Geoffrey X. Yu , Yubo Gao , Pavel Golikov , Gennady Pekhimenko

We consider differential Lyapunov and Riccati equations, and generalized versions thereof. Such equations arise in many different areas and are especially important within the field of optimal control. In order to approximate their…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Hermann Mena , Lena-Maria Pfurtscheller , Tony Stillfjord

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) were once used solely for graphical computation tasks but with the increase in the use of machine learning applications, the use of GPUs to perform general-purpose computing has increased in the last few…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Asim Ikram , Muhammad Awais Ali , Mirza Omer Beg

Breakthroughs in the fields of deep learning and mobile system-on-chips are radically changing the way we use our smartphones. However, deep neural networks inference is still a challenging task for edge AI devices due to the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Zhuoran Ji

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely adopted due to their strong performance. However, GNN training often relies on expensive, high-performance computing platforms, limiting accessibility for many tasks. Profiling of representative…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Tong Qiao , Ao Zhou , Yingjie Qi , Yiou Wang , Han Wan , Jianlei Yang , Chunming Hu

Recent researches on neural network have shown significant advantage in machine learning over traditional algorithms based on handcrafted features and models. Neural network is now widely adopted in regions like image, speech and video…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Kaiyuan Guo , Shulin Zeng , Jincheng Yu , Yu Wang , Huazhong Yang

This paper presents GPU performance optimization and scaling results for inference models of the Sparse Deep Neural Network Challenge 2020. Demands for network quality have increased rapidly, pushing the size and thus the memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Mert Hidayetoglu , Carl Pearson , Vikram Sharma Mailthody , Eiman Ebrahimi , Jinjun Xiong , Rakesh Nagi , Wen-Mei Hwu

Big science initiatives are trying to reconstruct and model the brain by attempting to simulate brain tissue at larger scales and with increasingly more biological detail than previously thought possible. The exponential growth of parallel…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Francesco Cremonesi , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein , Felix Schürmann

Open-source simulation tools play a crucial role for neuromorphic application engineers and hardware architects to investigate performance bottlenecks and explore design optimizations before committing to silicon. Reconfigurable…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sahil Hassan , Michael Inouye , Miguel C. Gonzalez , Ilkin Aliyev , Joshua Mack , Maisha Hafiz , Ali Akoglu

The GPU has emerged as the go-to accelerator for high throughput and parallel workloads, spanning scientific simulations to AI, thanks to its performance and power efficiency. Given that 6 out of the top 10 fastest supercomputers in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zeyu Yang , Karel Adamek , Wesley Armour

Many architects believe that major improvements in cost-energy-performance must now come from domain-specific hardware. This paper evaluates a custom ASIC---called a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)---deployed in datacenters since 2015 that…

Parallel computing using accelerators has gained widespread research attention in the past few years. In particular, using GPUs for general purpose computing has brought forth several success stories with respect to time taken, cost, power,…