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The ever-increasing computation complexity of fast-growing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has requested new computing paradigms to overcome the memory wall in conventional Von Neumann computing architectures. The emerging Computing-In-Memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Kaining Zhou , Yangshuo He , Rui Xiao , Kejie Huang

Large deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a wide range of tasks. These models often necessitate distributed systems for efficient training and inference. The fundamental building blocks for distributed model…

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In our exploration of Composable Memory systems utilizing CXL, we focus on overcoming adoption barriers at Hyperscale, underscored by economic models demonstrating Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). While CXL addresses the pressing memory…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Angelos Arelakis , Nilesh Shah , Yiannis Nikolakopoulos , Dimitrios Palyvos-Giannas

Graph analytics are vital in fields such as social networks, biomedical research, and graph neural networks (GNNs). However, traditional CPUs and GPUs struggle with the memory bottlenecks caused by large graph datasets and their…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Oluwole Jaiyeoba , Abdullah T. Mughrabi , Morteza Baradaran , Beenish Gul , Kevin Skadron

High-performance computing (HPC) systems increasingly support both scalable AI training and large-scale simulation workloads. Both typically rely heavily on collective communication operations. On modern supercomputers, however, network…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Lorenzo Piarulli , Marco Faltelli , Dirk Pleiter , Karthee Sivalingam , Dancheng Zhang , Kexue Zhao , Matteo Turisini , Francesco Iannone , Aldo Artigiani , Daniele De Sensi

Transaction processing systems are the crux for modern data-center applications, yet current multi-node systems are slow due to network overheads. This paper advocates for Compute Express Link (CXL) as a network alternative, which enables…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Zhao Wang , Yiqi Chen , Cong Li , Dimin Niu , Tianchan Guan , Zhaoyang Du , Xingda Wei , Guangyu Sun

Diffusion-based generation is increasingly powering production content pipelines; however, deploying these models at scale remains a significant challenge. Model weights frequently exceed the memory capacity of commodity GPUs, while the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hantian Zha , Teng Ma , Yang Yong , Haiwen Fu , Ruiyang Ma , Wei Gao , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Wei Wang , Yunpeng Chai

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce and Spark are often used to process large-scale data computing jobs. In wireless scenarios, exchanging data among distributed nodes would seriously suffer from the communication bottleneck…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Youlong Wu , Zhenhao Huang , Kai Yuan , Shuai Ma , Yue Bi

The disaggregated memory (DM) architecture offers high resource elasticity at the cost of data access performance. While caching frequently accessed data in compute nodes (CNs) reduces access overhead, it requires costly centralized…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Hanze Zhang , Kaiming Wang , Rong Chen , Xingda Wei , Haibo Chen

The ever-increasing compute performance of GPU accelerators drives up the need for efficient data movements within HPC applications to sustain performance. Proposed as a solution to alleviate CPU-GPU data movement, AMD MI300A Accelerated…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Gabin Schieffer , Jacob Wahlgren , Ruimin Shi , Edgar A. León , Roger Pearce , Maya Gokhale , Ivy Peng

Emerging deep neural network (DNN) applications require high-performance multi-core hardware acceleration with large data bursts. Classical network-on-chips (NoCs) use serial packet-based protocols suffering from significant protocol…

Neural network (NN) accelerators with multi-chip-module (MCM) architectures enable integration of massive computation capability; however, they face challenges of computing resource underutilization and off-chip communication overheads.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongle Huang , Hongyang Jia , Kaiwei Zou , Yongpan Liu

Compute Express Link (CXL) is a rapidly emerging coherent interconnect standard that provides opportunities for memory pooling and sharing. Memory sharing is a well-established software feature that improves memory utilization by avoiding…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Sunita Jain , Nagaradhesh Yeleswarapu , Hasan Al Maruf , Rita Gupta

Emerging Large Language Model (LLM) system patterns, such as disaggregated inference, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routing, and asynchronous reinforcement fine-tuning, require flexible point-to-point communication beyond simple collectives.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Nandor Licker , Kevin Hu , Vladimir Zaytsev , Lequn Chen

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained mobile devices presents significant challenges, particularly in achieving real-time performance while simultaneously coping with limited computational resources and battery life.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zekai Sun , Xiuxian Guan , Zheng Lin , Zihan Fang , Xiangming Cai , Zhe Chen , Fangming Liu , Heming Cui , Jie Xiong , Wei Ni , Chau Yuen

As computing demand and memory footprint of deep learning applications accelerate, clusters of cores sharing local (L1) multi-banked memory are widely used as key building blocks in large-scale architectures. When the cluster's core count…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Diyou Shen , Yichao Zhang , Marco Bertuletti , Luca Benini

The increasing pervasiveness of intelligent mobile applications requires to exploit the full range of resources offered by the mobile-edge-cloud network for the execution of inference tasks. However, due to the heterogeneity of such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Chetna Singhal , Yashuo Wu , Francesco Malandrino , Marco Levorato , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini

Virtual clusters are widely used computing platforms than can be deployed in multiple cloud platforms. The ability to dynamically grow and shrink the number of nodes has paved the way for customised elastic computing both for High…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Miguel Caballer , Marica Antonacci , Zdeněk Šustr , Michele Perniola , Germán Moltó

Recent advances in graph processing on FPGAs promise to alleviate performance bottlenecks with irregular memory access patterns. Such bottlenecks challenge performance for a growing number of important application areas like machine…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

Network programmability is an area of research both defined by its potential and its current limitations. While programmable hardware enables customization of device operation, tailoring processing to finely tuned objectives, limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Marcelo Abranches , Karl Olson , Eric Keller