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Today's computing systems require moving data back-and-forth between computing resources (e.g., CPUs, GPUs, accelerators) and off-chip main memory so that computation can take place on the data. Unfortunately, this data movement is a major…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Amirali Boroumand , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu

Processing-in-cache (PiC) and Processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures, especially those utilizing bit-line computing, offer promising solutions to mitigate data movement bottlenecks within the memory hierarchy. While previous studies have…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Dhruv Gajaria , Tosiron Adegbija , Kevin Gomez

Bulk-bitwise processing-in-memory (PIM), where large bitwise operations are performed in parallel by the memory array itself, is an emerging form of computation with the potential to mitigate the memory wall problem. This paper examines the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Ben Perach , Ronny Ronen , Benny Kimelfeld , Shahar Kvatinsky

Processing-in-memory (PIM) is a transformative architectural paradigm designed to overcome the Von Neumann bottleneck. Among PIM architectures, digital SRAM-PIM emerges as a promising solution, offering significant advantages by directly…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Cenlin Duan , Jianlei Yang , Yikun Wang , Yiou Wang , Yingjie Qi , Xiaolin He , Bonan Yan , Xueyan Wang , Xiaotao Jia , Weisheng Zhao

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is a core primitive in modern AI systems, and graph-based methods currently offer the best accuracy-efficiency trade-off at scale. The workload is fundamentally memory-bound: graph traversal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Sitian Chen , Yusen Li , Yao Chen , Minwen Deng , Jintao Meng , Amelie Chi Zhou

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 dominance of machine learning and the ending of Moore's law have renewed interests in Processor in Memory (PIM) architectures. This interest has produced several recent proposals to modify an FPGA's BRAM architecture to form a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-11 MD Arafat Kabir , Ehsan Kabir , Joshua Hollis , Eli Levy-Mackay , Atiyehsadat Panahi , Jason Bakos , Miaoqing Huang , David Andrews

The performance gap between memory and processor has grown rapidly. Consequently, the energy and wall-clock time costs associated with moving data between the CPU and main memory predominate the overall computational cost. The…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Qingcai Jiang , Shaojie Tan , Junshi Chen , Hong An

The performance of today's in-memory indexes is bottlenecked by the memory latency/bandwidth wall. Processing-in-memory (PIM) is an emerging approach that potentially mitigates this bottleneck, by enabling low-latency memory access whose…

The von Neumann architecture, in which the memory and the computation units are separated, demands massive data traffic between the memory and the CPU. To reduce data movement, new technologies and computer architectures have been explored.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Adi Eliahu , Rotem Ben-Hur , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have transformed the field of machine learning and are widely deployed in many applications involving image, video, speech and natural language processing. The increasing compute demands of DNNs have been widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Sourjya Roy , Mustafa Ali , Anand Raghunathan

Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have spotlighted the pressing need for computing architectures that bridge the gap between memory bandwidth and processing power. The advent of deep neural networks has pushed traditional Von Neumann…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Febin Sunny , Amin Shafiee , Abhishek Balasubramaniam , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha

Compute-in-memory (CIM) based neural network accelerators offer a promising solution to the Von Neumann bottleneck by computing directly within memory arrays. However, SRAM CIM faces limitations in executing larger models due to its cell…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Shurui Li , Puneet Gupta

In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), Transformer demonstrates its performance across various applications. The excessive amount of parameters incurs high latency and energy overhead when processed in the von Neumann architecture.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Jae-Young Kim , Donghyuk Kim , Seungjae Yoo , Sungyeob Yoo , Teokkyu Suh , Joo-Young Kim

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

Triangles are the basic substructure of networks and triangle counting (TC) has been a fundamental graph computing problem in numerous fields such as social network analysis. Nevertheless, like other graph computing problems, due to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Xueyan Wang , Jianlei Yang , Yinglin Zhao , Xiaotao Jia , Rong Yin , Xuhang Chen , Gang Qu , Weisheng Zhao

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

The Von Neumann bottleneck, which relates to the energy cost of moving data from memory to on-chip core and vice versa, is a serious challenge in state-of-the-art AI architectures, like Convolutional Neural Networks' (CNNs) accelerators.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Cristian Sestito , Ahmed J. Abdelmaksoud , Shady Agwa , Themis Prodromakis

Recently DRAM-based PIMs (processing-in-memories) with unmodified cell arrays have demonstrated impressive performance for accelerating AI applications. However, due to the very restrictive hardware constraints, PIM remains an accelerator…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jaewoo Park , Sugil Lee , Jongeun Lee

Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are increasingly utilizing multi-tenant deep neural networks (DNNs), which lead to a significant rise in computing complexity and the need for computing parallelism. ReRAM-based…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Bojing Li , Duo Zhong , Xiang Chen , Chenchen Liu