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Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is crucial in computational science, engineering, and machine learning. Despite substantial efforts to improve SpMV performance on GPUs through various techniques, issues related to data locality,…

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Sparse Matrix Vector multiplication (SpMV) is one of basic building blocks in scientific computing, and acceleration of SpMV has been continuously required. In this research, we aim for accelerating SpMV on recent CPUs for sparse matrices…

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Why do security cameras, sensors, and siri use cloud servers instead of on-board computation? The lack of very-low-power, high-performance chips greatly limits the ability to field untethered edge devices. We present the NV-1, a new…

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The transfer-matrix technique is a convenient way for studying strip lattices in the Potts model since the compu- tational costs depend just on the periodic part of the lattice and not on the whole. However, even when the cost is reduced,…

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High performance computing (HPC) devices is no longer exclusive for academic, R&D, or military purposes. The use of HPC device such as supercomputer now growing rapidly as some new area arise such as big data, and computer simulation. It…

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Modern scientific applications are getting more diverse, and the vector lengths in those applications vary widely. Contemporary Vector Processors (VPs) are designed either for short vector lengths, e.g., Fujitsu A64FX with 512-bit ARM SVE…