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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 expansion of long-context Large Language Models (LLMs) creates significant memory system challenges. While Processing-in-Memory (PIM) is a promising accelerator, we identify that it suffers from critical inefficiencies when scaled to…

Compute-in-memory (PIM) mitigates the memory wall by performing computation within memory, reducing data movement and improving energy efficiency. DRAM-based PIM is particularly attractive due to its high density, mature manufacturing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Siddhartha Raman Sundara Raman , Siyuan Ma , Lizy Kurian John

As data-intensive applications increasingly strain conventional computing systems, processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as a promising paradigm to alleviate the memory wall by minimizing data transfer between memory and processing units.…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Thomas Neuner , Henriette Padberg , Lior Kornblum , Eilam Yalon , Pedram Khalili Amiri , Shahar Kvatinsky

To index the increasing volume of data, modern data indexes are typically stored on SSDs and cached in DRAM. However, searching such an index has resulted in significant I/O traffic due to limited access locality and inefficient cache…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yun-Chih Chen , Yuan-Hao Chang , Tei-Wei Kuo

Recent research has sought to accelerate cryptographic hash functions as they are at the core of modern cryptography. Traditional designs, however, suffer from the von Neumann bottleneck that originates from the separation of processing and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Batel Oved , Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

With the widespread use of deep neural networks(DNNs) in intelligent systems, DNN accelerators with high performance and energy efficiency are greatly demanded. As one of the feasible processing-in-memory(PIM) architectures,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Junpeng Wang , Mengke Ge , Bo Ding , Qi Xu , Song Chen , Yi Kang

Nowadays, data-intensive applications are gaining popularity and, together with this trend, processing-in-memory (PIM)-based systems are being given more attention and have become more relevant. This paper describes an analytical modeling…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ronny Ronen , Adi Eliahu , Orian Leitersdorf , Natan Peled , Kunal Korgaonkar , Anupam Chattopadhyay , Ben Perach , Shahar Kvatinsky

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a promising technology for confidential cloud computing, as it allows computations on encrypted data. However, HE is computationally expensive and often memory-bound on conventional computer architectures.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Niklas Klinger , Jonas Sander , Peterson Yuhala , Pascal Felber , Thomas Eisenbarth

Sequence alignment is a memory bound computation whose performance in modern systems is limited by the memory bandwidth bottleneck. Processing-in-memory architectures alleviate this bottleneck by providing the memory with computing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Safaa Diab , Amir Nassereldine , Mohammed Alser , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu , Izzat El Hajj

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

Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) for relational databases is a business decision support application. The application receives queries about the business database, usually requesting to summarize many database records, and produces few…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Ben Perach , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Recent dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) are starting to support processing-in-memory (PIM) by associating their memory banks with processing elements (PEs), allowing applications to overcome the data movement bottleneck by offloading…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Si Ung Noh , Junguk Hong , Chaemin Lim , Seongyeon Park , Jeehyun Kim , Hanjun Kim , Youngsok Kim , Jinho Lee

Processing in memory (PIM) moves computation into memories with the goal of improving throughput and energy-efficiency compared to traditional von Neumann-based architectures. Most existing PIM architectures are either general-purpose but…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Oscar Castañeda , Maria Bobbett , Alexandra Gallyas-Sanhueza , Christoph Studer

Processing-in-memory (PIM) is a promising choice for accelerating deep neural networks (DNNs) featuring high efficiency and low power. However, the rapid upscaling of neural network model sizes poses a crucial challenge for the limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ruibao Wang , Bonan Yan

The growing volume of data in modern applications has led to significant computational costs in conventional processor-centric systems. Processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures alleviate these costs by moving computation closer to memory,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Geraldo F. Oliveira , Alain Kohli , David Novo , Ataberk Olgun , A. Giray Yaglikci , Saugata Ghose , Juan Gómez-Luna , Onur Mutlu

Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables computation over encrypted data, offering strong privacy guarantees for untrusted computing environments. Practical adoption remains limited by high computational complexity, large ciphertext sizes, and…

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become essential in a variety of applications due to their advanced language understanding and generation capabilities. However, their computational and memory requirements pose significant challenges to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Cristobal Ortega , Yann Falevoz , Renaud Ayrignac

Digital processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures mitigate the memory wall problem by facilitating parallel bitwise operations directly within the memory. Recent works have demonstrated their algorithmic potential for accelerating…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky