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Bottleneck evaluation plays a crucial part in performance tuning of HPC applications, as it directly influences the search for optimizations and the selection of the best hardware for a given code. In this paper, we introduce a new…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Aurélien Delval , Pablo de Oliveira Castro , William Jalby , Etienne Renault

The rise of disaggregated AI GPUs has exposed a critical bottleneck in large-scale attention workloads: non-uniform memory access (NUMA). As multi-chiplet designs become the norm for scaling compute capabilities, memory latency and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Mansi Choudhary , Karthik Sangaiah , Sonali Singh , Muhammad Osama , Lisa Wu Wills , Ganesh Dasika

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of Intel Gaudi NPUs as an alternative to NVIDIA GPUs, which is currently the de facto standard in AI system design. First, we create a suite of microbenchmarks to compare Intel Gaudi-2 with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yunjae Lee , Juntaek Lim , Jehyeon Bang , Eunyeong Cho , Huijong Jeong , Taesu Kim , Hyungjun Kim , Joonhyung Lee , Jinseop Im , Ranggi Hwang , Se Jung Kwon , Dongsoo Lee , Minsoo Rhu

The rapidly growing popularity and scale of data-parallel workloads demand a corresponding increase in raw computational power of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). As single-GPU systems struggle to satisfy the performance demands, multi-GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yifan Sun , Trinayan Baruah , Saiful A. Mojumder , Shi Dong , Rafael Ubal , Xiang Gong , Shane Treadway , Yuhui Bao , Vincent Zhao , José L. Abellán , John Kim , Ajay Joshi , David Kaeli

Over the past decade, the landscape of data analytics has seen a notable shift towards heterogeneous architectures, particularly the integration of GPUs to enhance overall performance. In the realm of in-memory analytics, which often…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Harshit Sharma , Anmol Sharma

This document presents a vision for a novel AI infrastructure design that has been initially validated through inference simulations on state-of-the-art large language models. Advancements in deep learning and specialized hardware have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiamin Li , Lei Qu , Tao Zhang , Grigory Chirkov , Shuotao Xu , Peng Cheng , Lidong Zhou

Connected components and spanning forest are fundamental graph algorithms due to their use in many important applications, such as graph clustering and image segmentation. GPUs are an ideal platform for graph algorithms due to their high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Changwan Hong , Laxman Dhulipala , Julian Shun

With the increasing usage of Machine Learning (ML) in High energy physics (HEP), there is a variety of new analyses with a large spread in compute resource requirements, especially when it comes to GPU resources. For institutes, like the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-14 Tim Voigtländer , Manuel Giffels , Günter Quast , Matthias Schnepf , Roger Wolf

B-spline modeling is fundamental to CAD systems, and its evaluation and manipulation algorithms currently in use were developed decades ago, specifically for CPU architectures. While remaining effective for many applications, these…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Jiayu Wu , Qiang Zou

Advances in GPU compute throughput and memory capacity brings significant opportunities to a wide range of workloads. However, efficiently utilizing these resources remains challenging, particularly because diverse application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Gabin Schieffer , Ruimin Shi , Jie Ren , Ivy Peng

Recently, graphics processors (GPUs) have been increasingly leveraged in a variety of scientific computing applications. However, architectural differences between CPUs and GPUs necessitate the development of algorithms that take advantage…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Jonathan Wong , Ellen Kuhl , Eric Darve

Recent advances in reprogrammable hardware (e.g., FPGAs) and memory technology (e.g., DDR4, HBM) promise to solve performance problems inherent to graph processing like irregular memory access patterns on traditional hardware (e.g., CPU).…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Jonas Dann , Daniel Ritter , Holger Fröning

We develop a novel linear-complexity bottom-up sketching-based algorithm for constructing a $H^2$ matrix, and present its high performance GPU implementation. The construction algorithm requires both a black-box sketching operator and an…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wajih Halim Boukaram , Yang Liu , Pieter Ghysels , Xiaoye Sherry Li

GPU design space exploration (DSE) for modern AI workloads, such as Large-Language Model (LLM) inference, is challenging because of GPUs' vast, multi-modal design spaces, high simulation costs, and complex design optimization objectives…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Tao Zhang , Rui Ma , Shuotao Xu , Yongqiang Xiong , Peng Cheng

Parallel computing is a standard approach to achieving high-performance computing (HPC). Three commonly used methods to implement parallel computing include: 1) applying multithreading technology on single-core or multi-core CPUs; 2)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xinyao Yi

Designing and implementing efficient, provably correct parallel neural network processing is challenging. Existing high-level parallel abstractions like MapReduce are insufficiently expressive while low-level tools like MPI and Pthreads…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Maohua Zhu , Liu Liu , Chao Wang , Yuan Xie

There has been significant progress in developing neural network architectures that both achieve high predictive performance and that also achieve high application-level inference throughput (e.g., frames per second). Another metric of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jack Kosaian , Amar Phanishayee

Hypergraph partitioning is a recurring NP-hard problem in engineering; its efficient solution at scale hinges on parallelism. This work proposes a GPU-centric algorithm for multi-level hypergraph partitioning aimed at a specific set of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Ronzani , Cristina Silvano

The server central processing unit (CPU) market continues to exhibit robust demand due to the rising global need for computing power. Against this backdrop, CPU benchmark performance prediction is crucial for architecture designers. It…

Performance · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xiaoman Liu

Numerical features of matrix multiplier hardware units in NVIDIA and AMD data centre GPUs have recently been studied. Features such as rounding, normalisation, and internal precision of the accumulators are of interest. In this paper, we…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Faizan A Khattak , Mantas Mikaitis