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Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is an essential tool in scientific and engineering computation. The increasing demand for mixed-precision FFT has made it possible to utilize half-precision floating-point (FP16) arithmetic for faster speed and…

This paper explores Google's Edge TPU for implementing a practical network intrusion detection system (NIDS) at the edge of IoT, based on a deep learning approach. While there are a significant number of related works that explore machine…

FPMax implements four FPUs optimized for latency or throughput workloads in two precisions, fabricated in 28nm UTBB FDSOI. Each unit's parameters, e.g pipeline stages, booth encoding etc., were optimized to yield 1.42ns latency at…

Graphics processing units (GPUs) in embedded mobile platforms are reaching performance levels where they may be useful for computer vision applications. We compare two generations of embedded GPUs for mobile devices when running a…

In modern low-power embedded platforms, floating-point (FP) operations emerge as a major contributor to the energy consumption of compute-intensive applications with large dynamic range. Experimental evidence shows that 50% of the energy…

Largely due to their increased native capacity for numerical intensity and power efficiency, reduced-precision floating-point computing resources, primarily used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications, have expanded at a greater rate…

Efficient on-device neural network (NN) inference offers predictable latency, improved privacy and reliability, and lower operating costs for vendors than cloud-based inference. This has sparked recent development of microcontroller-scale…

Digital twins (DTs) can enable precision healthcare by continually learning a mathematical representation of patient-specific dynamics. However, mission critical healthcare applications require fast, resource-efficient DT learning, which is…

This paper discusses the potential of graphics processing units (GPUs) in high-dimensional optimization problems. A single GPU card with hundreds of arithmetic cores can be inserted in a personal computer and dramatically accelerates many…

Tensor processing units (TPUs) are one of the most well-known machine learning (ML) accelerators utilized at large scale in data centers as well as in tiny ML applications. TPUs offer several improvements and advantages over conventional ML…

Parallel computing can offer an enormous advantage regarding the performance for very large applications in almost any field: scientific computing, computer vision, databases, data mining, and economics. GPUs are high performance many-core…

We present an implementation of all-electron density-functional theory for massively parallel GPGPU-based platforms, using localized atom-centered basis functions and real-space integration grids. Special attention is paid to domain…

We proposes a platform which can generate hardware/software description based on flexible in-struction set architectures (ISAs). The platform takes advantage of the flexibility of field pro-grammable gate array (FPGA) to design many micro…

We present a single-node, multi-GPU programmable graph processing library that allows programmers to easily extend single-GPU graph algorithms to achieve scalable performance on large graphs with billions of edges. Directly using the…

Linear Programs (LPs) appear in a large number of applications and offloading them to a GPU is viable to gain performance. Existing work on offloading and solving an LP on a GPU suggests that there is performance gain generally on large…

Graphics Processing Unit, or GPUs, have been successfully adopted both for graphic computation in 3D applications, and for general purpose application (GP-GPUs), thank to their tremendous performance-per-watt. Recently, there is a big…

The new Cell processor represents a turning point for computing intensive applications. Here, I show that for molecular dynamics it is possible to reach an impressive sustained performance in excess of 30 Gflops with a peak of 45 Gflops for…

DRAM is a critical component of modern computing systems. Recent works propose numerous techniques (that we call DRAM techniques) to enhance DRAM-based computing systems' throughput, reliability, and computing capabilities (e.g., in-DRAM…

This work proposes a novel approach to evaluate and analyze the behavior of multi-population parallel genetic algorithms (PGAs) when running on a cluster of multi-core processors. In particular, we deeply study their numerical and…