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Many modern workloads such as neural network inference and graph processing are fundamentally memory-bound. For such workloads, data movement between memory and CPU cores imposes a significant overhead in terms of both latency and energy. A…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Gómez-Luna , Izzat El Hajj , Ivan Fernandez , Christina Giannoula , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Onur Mutlu

For over a decade, processor design has focused on implementing sophisticated policies for various components of the out-of-order pipeline, including cache replacement and prefetching. The prevailing design philosophy has been to build…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yanxin Zhang , Ian McDougall , Junnan Li , Shayne Wadle , Vikas Singh , Karthikeyan Sankaralingam

Simulation remains a cornerstone of computer architecture research, yet full end-to-end application execution is prohibitively time-consuming. The industry-standard solution, SimPoint, mitigates this cost by selecting a small number of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Magnus Ekman

The current landscape of scientific research is widely based on modeling and simulation, typically with complexity in the simulation's flow of execution and parameterization properties. Execution flows are not necessarily straightforward…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Eduardo Ponce , Brittany Stephenson , Suzanne Lenhart , Judy Day , Gregory D. Peterson

As fusion energy devices advance, plasma simulations are crucial for reactor design. Our work extends BIT1 hybrid parallelization by integrating MPI with OpenMP and OpenACC, focusing on asynchronous multi-GPU programming. Results show…

Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems exhibit a rapid growth in size, both "horizontally" in the number of nodes, as well as "vertically" in the number of cores per node. As such, they offer additional levels of hardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ahmed Eleliemy , Ali Mohammed , Florina M. Ciorba

As compute power increases with time, more involved and larger simulations become possible. However, it gets increasingly difficult to efficiently use the provided computational resources. Especially in particle-based simulations with a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Sebastian Eibl , Ulrich Rüde

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), the demand for high-performance LLM inference services continues to grow. To meet this demand, a growing number of AI accelerators have been proposed, such as Google TPU, Huawei…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Tianhao Zhu , Dahu Feng , Erhu Feng , Yubin Xia

Today's computing systems require moving data back-and-forth between computing resources (e.g., CPUs, GPUs, accelerators) and off-chip main memory so that computation can take place on the data. Unfortunately, this data movement is a major…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Amirali Boroumand , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu

The paper introduces PDSP-Bench, a novel benchmarking system designed for a systematic understanding of performance of parallel stream processing in a distributed environment. Such an understanding is essential for determining how Stream…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Pratyush Agnihotri , Boris Koldehofe , Roman Heinrich , Carsten Binnig , Manisha Luthra

A parallel computer system is a collection of processing elements that communicate and cooperate to solve large computational problems efficiently. To achieve this, at first the large computational problem is partitioned into several tasks…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-09 Ardhendu Mandal , Subhas Chandra Pal

We introduce the Balsam service to manage high-throughput task scheduling and execution on supercomputing systems. Balsam allows users to populate a task database with a variety of tasks ranging from simple independent tasks to dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Michael A. Salim , Thomas D. Uram , J. Taylor Childers , Prasanna Balaprakash , Venkatram Vishwanath , Michael E. Papka

Prior work on Automatically Scalable Computation (ASC) suggests that it is possible to parallelize sequential computation by building a model of whole-program execution, using that model to predict future computations, and then…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Peter Kraft , Amos Waterland , Daniel Y Fu , Anitha Gollamudi , Shai Szulanski , Margo Seltzer

The latest trends in high-performance computing systems show an increasing demand on the use of a large scale multicore systems in a efficient way, so that high compute-intensive applications can be executed reasonably well. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-02-25 Juliana M. N. Silva , Cristina Boeres , Lúcia M. A. Drummond , Artur A. Pessoa

There is increasing interest in using multicore processors to accelerate stream processing. For example, indexing sliding window content to enhance the performance of streaming queries is greatly improved by utilizing the computational…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Amirhesam Shahvarani , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

The development of cost-effective highperformance parallel computing on multi-processor supercomputers makes it attractive to port excessively time consuming simulation software from personal computers (PC) to super computes. The power…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ning Lu , Z. Todd Taylor , David P. Chassin , Ross T. Guttromson , R. Scott Studham

With the rising complexity of numerous novel applications that serve our modern society comes the strong need to design efficient computing platforms. Designing efficient hardware is, however, a complex multi-objective problem that deals…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Alireza Ghaffari , Masoud Asgharian , Yvon Savaria

GPUs have been widely used to accelerate computations exhibiting simple patterns of parallelism - such as flat or two-level parallelism - and a degree of parallelism that can be statically determined based on the size of the input dataset.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hancheng Wu , Da Li , Michela Becchi

The emergence of multicore and manycore processors is set to change the parallel computing world. Applications are shifting towards increased parallelism in order to utilise these architectures efficiently. This leads to a situation where…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Ashkan Tousimojarad , Wim Vanderbauwhede

Data movement in memory-intensive workloads, such as deep learning, incurs energy costs that are over three orders of magnitude higher than the cost of computation. Since these workloads involve frequent data transfers between memory and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Bahareh Khabbazan , Marc Riera , Antonio González