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Processing in memory (PiM) represents a promising computing paradigm to enhance performance of numerous data-intensive applications. Variants performing computing directly in emerging nonvolatile memories can deliver very high energy…

In-memory database query processing frequently involves substantial data transfers between the CPU and memory, leading to inefficiencies due to Von Neumann bottleneck. Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures offer a viable solution to…

The performance bottleneck of deep-learning-based recommender systems resides in their backbone Deep Neural Networks. By integrating Processing-In-Memory~(PIM) architectures, researchers can reduce data movement and enhance energy…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Feng Cheng , Tunhou Zhang , Junyao Zhang , Jonathan Hao-Cheng Ku , Yitu Wang , Xiaoxuan Yang , Hai , Li , Yiran Chen

Recent research has sought to accelerate cryptographic hash functions as they are at the core of modern cryptography. Traditional designs, however, suffer from the von Neumann bottleneck that originates from the separation of processing and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Batel Oved , Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

The substantial memory bandwidth and computational demands of large language models (LLMs) present critical challenges for efficient inference. To tackle this, the literature has explored heterogeneous systems that combine neural processing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuzong Chen , Chao Fang , Xilai Dai , Yuheng Wu , Thierry Tambe , Marian Verhelst , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah

The performance and efficiency of running large-scale datasets on traditional computing systems exhibit critical bottlenecks due to the existing "power wall" and "memory wall" problems. To resolve those problems, processing-in-memory (PIM)…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Yinglin Zhao , Jianlei Yang , Bing Li , Xingzhou Cheng , Xucheng Ye , Xueyan Wang , Xiaotao Jia , Zhaohao Wang , Youguang Zhang , Weisheng Zhao

Processing-in-memory (PIM) is a promising computing paradigm to tackle the "memory wall" challenge. However, PIM system-level benefits over traditional von Neumann architecture can be reduced when the memory array cannot fully store all the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Peilin Chen , Xiaoxuan Yang

PIM architectures aim to reduce data transfer costs between processors and memory by integrating processing units within memory layers. Prior PIM architectures have shown potential to improve energy efficiency and performance. However, such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Parker Hao Tian , Zahra Yousefijamarani , Alaa Alameldeen

Nowadays, data-intensive applications are gaining popularity and, together with this trend, processing-in-memory (PIM)-based systems are being given more attention and have become more relevant. This paper describes an analytical modeling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ronny Ronen , Adi Eliahu , Orian Leitersdorf , Natan Peled , Kunal Korgaonkar , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Ben Perach , Shahar Kvatinsky

Demand for data-intensive workloads and confidential computing are the prominent research directions shaping the future of cloud computing. Computer architectures are evolving to accommodate the computing of large data better. Protecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Kha Dinh Duy , Hojoon Lee

Processing in Memory (PIM) is a computing paradigm that promises enormous gain in processing speed by eradicating latencies in the typical von Neumann architecture. It has gained popularity owing to its throughput by embedding storage and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-02-09 P. P. Chougule , B. Sen , R. Mukherjee , V. C. Karade , P. S. Patil , T. D. Dongale , R. K. Kamat

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures bring computation closer to data, reducing the processor-memory transfer bottleneck in traditional processor-centric designs. Novel hardware solutions, such as UPMEM's in-memory processing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Peterson Yuhala , Mpoki Mwaisela , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

The ability to dynamically allocate memory is fundamental in modern programming languages. However, this feature is not adequately supported in current general-purpose PIM devices. To identify key design principles that PIM must consider,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Dongjae Lee , Bongjoon Hyun , Youngjin Kwon , Minsoo Rhu

SRAM Processing-in-Memory (PIM) has emerged as the most promising implementation for high-performance PIM, delivering superior computing density, energy efficiency, and computational precision. However, the pursuit of higher performance…

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Decoder-only Transformer models such as GPT have demonstrated exceptional performance in text generation, by autoregressively predicting the next token. However, the efficacy of running GPT on current hardware systems is bounded by low…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yuting Wu , Ziyu Wang , Wei D. Lu

Neural networks (NNs) are growing in importance and complexity. A neural network's performance (and energy efficiency) can be bound either by computation or memory resources. The processing-in-memory (PIM) paradigm, where computation is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Juan Gómez-Luna , Saugata Ghose , Amirali Boroumand , Onur Mutlu

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures are emerging to reduce data movement in data-intensive applications. These architectures seek to exploit the same physical devices for both information storage and logic, thereby dwarfing the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Computing on encrypted data is a promising approach to reduce data security and privacy risks, with homomorphic encryption serving as a facilitator in achieving this goal. In this work, we accelerate homomorphic operations using the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Harshita Gupta , Mayank Kabra , Juan Gómez-Luna , Konstantinos Kanellopoulos , Onur Mutlu

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) has emerged as a promising computing paradigm to address the memory wall and the fundamental bottleneck of the von Neumann architecture by reducing costly data movement between memory and processing units. As with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mahdi Aghaei , Saba Ebrahimi , Mohammad Saleh Arafati , Elham Cheshmikhani , Dara Rahmati , Saeid Gorgin , Jungrae Kim

Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures have seen an increase in popularity recently, as the high internal bandwidth available within 3D-stacked memory provides greater incentive to move some computation into the logic layer of the memory.…