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Large language models (LLMs) hold tremendous potential for addressing numerous real-world challenges, yet they typically demand significant computational resources and memory. Deploying LLMs onto a resource-limited hardware device with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pujiang He , Shan Zhou , Changqing Li , Wenhuan Huang , Weifei Yu , Duyi Wang , Chen Meng , Sheng Gui

The \emph{Partial Cache-Coherence (PCC)} model maintains hardware cache coherence only within subsets of cores, enabling large-scale memory sharing with emerging memory interconnect technologies like Compute Express Link (CXL). However,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Fangnuo Wu , Mingkai Dong , Wenjun Cai , Jingsheng Yan , Haibo Chen

This paper proposes TRAININGCXL that can efficiently process large-scale recommendation datasets in the pool of disaggregated memory while making training fault tolerant with low overhead. To this end, i) we integrate persistent memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Miryeong Kwon , Junhyeok Jang , Hanjin Choi , Sangwon Lee , Myoungsoo Jung

Compute Express Link (CXL) is a promising technology that addresses memory and storage challenges. Despite its advantages, CXL faces performance threats from external interference when co-existing with current memory and storage systems.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shunyu Mao , Jiajun Luo , Yixin Li , Jiapeng Zhou , Weidong Zhang , Zheng Liu , Teng Ma , Shuwen Deng

Integrating compute express link (CXL) with SSDs allows scalable access to large memory but has slower speeds than DRAMs. We present ExPAND, an expander-driven CXL prefetcher that offloads last-level cache (LLC) prefetching from host CPU to…

The Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect makes it feasible to integrate diverse types of memory into servers via its byte-addressable SerDes links. Considering the various access latency, harnessing the full potential of CXL-based…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Zhe Zhou , Yiqi Chen , Tao Zhang , Yang Wang , Ran Shu , Shuotao Xu , Peng Cheng , Lei Qu , Yongqiang Xiong , Jie Zhang , Guangyu Sun

Conventional heterogeneous computing systems built on PCIe interconnects suffer from inefficient fine-grained host-device interactions and complex programming models. In recent years, many proprietary and open cache-coherent interconnect…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yanjing Wang , Lizhou Wu , Sunfeng Gao , Yibo Tang , Junhui Luo , Zicong Wang , Yang Ou , Dezun Dong , Nong Xiao , Mingche Lai

FPGA-based data processing in datacenters is increasing in popularity due to the demands of modern workloads and the ensuing necessity for specialization in hardware. Driven by this trend, vendors are rapidly adapting reconfigurable devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Kaan Kara , Christoph Hagleitner , Dionysios Diamantopoulos , Dimitris Syrivelis , Gustavo Alonso

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

In GPU graph analytics, the use of external memory such as the host DRAM and solid-state drives is a cost-effective approach to processing large graphs beyond the capacity of the GPU onboard memory. This paper studies the use of Compute…

In an effort to lower the barrier to the adoption of FPGAs by a broader community, today major FPGA vendors offer compiler toolchains for OpenCL code. While using these toolchain allows porting existing code to FPGAs, ensuring performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Mostafa Eghbali Zarch , Michela Becchi

Pooling PCIe devices across multiple hosts offers a promising solution to mitigate stranded I/O resources, enhance device utilization, address device failures, and reduce total cost of ownership. The only viable option today are PCIe…

Disaggregated memory is a promising approach that addresses the limitations of traditional memory architectures by enabling memory to be decoupled from compute nodes and shared across a data center. Cloud platforms have deployed such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nan Ding , Pieter Maris , Hai Ah Nam , Taylor Groves , Muaaz Gul Awan , LeAnn Lindsey , Christopher Daley , Oguz Selvitopi , Leonid Oliker , Nicholas Wright , Samuel Williams

The use of disaggregated or far memory systems such as CXL memory pools has renewed interest in Near-Data Processing (NDP): situating cores close to memory to reduce bandwidth requirements to and from the CPU. Hardware designs for such…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zikai Liu , Niels Pressel , Jasmin Schult , Roman Meier , Pengcheng Xu , Timothy Roscoe

The emergence of CXL (Compute Express Link) promises to transform the status of interconnects between host and devices and in turn impact the design of all software layers. With its low overhead, low latency, and memory coherency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Raja Gond , Purushottam Kulkarni

This paper investigates hardware-based memory compression designs to increase the memory bandwidth. When lines are compressible, the hardware can store multiple lines in a single memory location, and retrieve all these lines in a single…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Vinson Young , Sanjay Kariyappa , Moinuddin K. Qureshi

Convolution is a fundamental operation in many applications, such as computer vision, natural language processing, image processing, etc. Recent successes of convolutional neural networks in various deep learning applications put even…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Xiaoming Chen , Jianxu Chen , Danny Z. Chen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

The Crossroads supercomputer was designed to simulate some of the most complex physical devices in the world. These simulations routinely require 1/2 petabyte or more of system memory running on thousands of compute nodes for months at a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Galen M. Shipman , Sriram Swaminarayan , Gary Grider , Jim Lujan , R. Joseph Zerr

The expansion of context windows in large language models (LLMs) to multi-million tokens introduces severe memory and compute bottlenecks, particularly in managing the growing Key-Value (KV) cache. While Compute Express Link (CXL) enables…

The ever-growing scale of data parallelism in today's HPC and ML applications presents a big challenge for computing architectures' energy efficiency and performance. Vector processors address the scale-up challenge by decoupling Vector…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Navaneeth Kunhi Purayil , Matteo Perotti , Tim Fischer , Luca Benini