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Over the years of challenges on detecting the crash consistency of non-volatile persistent memory (PM) bugs and developing new tools to identify those bugs are quite stretching due to its inconsistent behavior on the file or storage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-22 Jahid Hasan

The performance of data intensive applications is often dominated by their input/output (I/O) operations but the I/O stack of systems is complex and severely depends on system specific settings and hardware components. This situation makes…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Masoud Gholami , Florian Schintke

Hierarchical VAEs have emerged in recent years as a reliable option for maximum likelihood estimation. However, instability issues and demanding computational requirements have hindered research progress in the area. We present simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Louay Hazami , Rayhane Mama , Ragavan Thurairatnam

As the size of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models and datasets grows, the memory bandwidth becomes a critical bottleneck. The paper presents a novel extended memory hierarchy that addresses some major memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jordi Altayo , Paul Delestrac , David Novo , Simey Yang , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Francky Catthoor

Non-volatile memory (NVM) is a promising technology for low-energy and high-capacity main memory of computers. The characteristics of NVM devices, however, tend to be fundamentally different from those of DRAM (i.e., the memory device…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Atsushi Koshiba , Takahiro Hirofuchi , Ryousei Takano , Mitaro Namiki

In Cloud Computing, the resource provisioning approach used has a great impact on the processing cost, especially when it is used for Big Data processing. Due to data variety, the performance of virtual machines (VM) may differ based on the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Hossein Ahmadvand , Fouzhan Foroutan

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling has garnered significant attention for its innovative next-scale prediction approach, which yields substantial improvements in efficiency, scalability, and zero-shot generalization. Nevertheless, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Kunjun Li , Zigeng Chen , Cheng-Yen Yang , Jenq-Neng Hwang

The increasing number of threads inside the cores of a multicore processor, and competitive access to the shared cache memory, become the main reasons for an increased number of competitive cache misses and performance decline. Inevitably,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Milcho Prisagjanec , Pece Mitrevski

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in natural language processing tasks but pose significant computational and memory challenges for edge deployment due to their intensive resource demands. This work addresses the efficiency of LLM…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zhican Wang , Hongxiang Fan , Haroon Waris , Gang Wang , Zhenyu Li , Jianfei Jiang , Yanan Sun , Guanghui He

In recent years, data-intensive applications have been increasingly deployed on cloud systems. Such applications utilize significant compute, memory, and I/O resources to process large volumes of data. Optimizing the performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Qing Wang , Snigdhaswin Kar , Prabodh Mishra , Caleb Linduff , Ryan Izard , Khayam Anjam , Geddings Barrineau , Junaid Zulfiqar , Kuang-Ching Wang

To mitigate the ever-worsening Power Wall problem, more and more applications need to expand their power supply to the wide-voltage range including the near-threshold region. However, the read delay distribution of the SRAM cells under the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Shan Shen , Tianxiang Shao , Xiaojing Shang , Yichen Guo , Ming Ling , Jun Yang , Longxing Shi

With the application of machine learning to security-critical and sensitive domains, there is a growing need for integrity and privacy in computation using accelerators, such as GPUs. Unfortunately, the support for trusted execution on GPUs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Andrei Ivanov , Benjamin Rothenberger , Arnaud Dethise , Marco Canini , Torsten Hoefler , Adrian Perrig

To improve power efficiency, researchers are experimenting with dynamically adjusting the supply voltage of systems below the nominal operating points. However, production systems are typically not allowed to function on voltage settings…

State-of-the-art in-memory computation has recently emerged as the most promising solution to overcome design challenges related to data movement inside current computing systems. One of the approaches to performing in-memory computation is…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Saeed Seyedfaraji , Baset Mesgari , Semeen Rehman

Shared virtual memory (SVM) is key in heterogeneous systems on chip (SoCs), which combine a general-purpose host processor with a many-core accelerator, both for programmability and to avoid data duplication. However, SVM can bring a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Andreas Kurth , Pirmin Vogel , Andrea Marongiu , Luca Benini

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) were once used solely for graphical computation tasks but with the increase in the use of machine learning applications, the use of GPUs to perform general-purpose computing has increased in the last few…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Asim Ikram , Muhammad Awais Ali , Mirza Omer Beg

Existing VM placement schemes have measured their effectiveness solely by looking either Physical Machine's resources(CPU, memory) or network resource. However, real applications use all resource types to varying degrees. The result of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Mayank Mishra , Umesh Bellur

We present a strategy to speed up Runge-Kutta-based ODE simulations of large systems with nearest-neighbor coupling. We identify the cache/memory bandwidth as the crucial performance bottleneck. To reduce the required bandwidth, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Mario Mulansky

It is often said that one of the biggest limitations on computer performance is memory bandwidth (i.e."the memory wall problem"). In this position paper, I argue that if historical trends in computing evolution (where growth in available…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2011-05-11 Niall Douglas

This paper explores the implications of employing non-volatile memory (NVM) as primary storage for a data base management system (DBMS). We investigate the modifications necessary to be applied on top of a traditional relational DBMS to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Naveed Ul Mustafa , Adri`a Armejach , Ozcan Ozturk , Adrian Cristal , Osman S. Unsal