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In this paper, we describe the algorithms we implemented in FDPS to make efficient use of accelerator hardware such as GPGPUs. We have developed FDPS to make it possible for many researchers to develop their own high-performance parallel…
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With at least 50 cores, Intel Xeon Phi is a true many-core architecture. Featuring fairly powerful cores, two cache levels, and very fast interconnections, the Xeon Phi can get a theoretical peak of 1000 GFLOPs and over 240 GB/s. These…
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In this work we evaluate the potential of FPGAs for accelerating HPC workloads as a more power-efficient alternative to GPUs. Using High-Level Synthesis and a large set of optimization techniques, we show that FPGAs can achieve better…
Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are specialized hardware accelerators for deep learning developed by Google. This paper aims to explore TPUs in cloud and edge computing focusing on its applications in AI. We provide an overview of TPUs,…
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This paper introduces a computer architecture, where part of the instruction set architecture (ISA) is implemented on small highly-integrated field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Small FPGAs inside a general-purpose processor (CPU) can…
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Subgraph matching is a core operation in graph analytics, supporting a broad spectrum of applications from social network analysis to bioinformatics. Recent GPU-based approaches accelerate subgraph matching by leveraging parallelism but…
Developing efficient GPU kernels can be difficult because of the complexity of GPU architectures and programming models. Existing performance tools only provide coarse-grained suggestions at the kernel level, if any. In this paper, we…