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Modern computing workloads, particularly in AI and edge applications, demand hardware-software co-design to meet aggressive performance and energy targets. Such co-design benefits from open and agile platforms that replace closed,…

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Transformer neural networks (TNN) excel in natural language processing (NLP), machine translation, and computer vision (CV) without relying on recurrent or convolutional layers. However, they have high computational and memory demands,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ehsan Kabir , Jason D. Bakos , David Andrews , Miaoqing Huang

This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

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FPGA-based hardware accelerators for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained great attentions due to their higher energy efficiency than GPUs. However, it is challenging for FPGA-based solutions to achieve a higher throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Yixing Li , Zichuan Liu , Kai Xu , Hao Yu , Fengbo Ren

Demand for AI accelerators is rapidly increasing rack power density, with projections approaching 1MW per deployment by 2027. This poses a major challenge for datacenter power delivery designers. As power densities increase, a datacenter…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Grant Wilkins , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Alok Gautam Kumbhare , Chaojie Zhang , Ricardo Bianchini

The irregular nature of memory accesses of graph workloads makes their performance poor on modern computing platforms. On manycore reconfigurable architectures (MRAs), in particular, even state-of-the-art graph prefetchers do not work well…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yichen Yang , Jingtao Li , Nishil Talati , Subhankar Pal , Siying Feng , Chaitali Chakrabarti , Trevor Mudge , Ronald Dreslinski

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming popular accelerators in modern High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters. Installing GPUs on each node of the cluster is not efficient resulting in high costs and power consumption as well as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-15 Javier Prades , Blesson Varghese , Carlos Reano , Federico Silla

Cloud applications are increasingly distributing data across multiple regions and cloud providers. Unfortunately, wide-area bulk data transfers are often slow, bottlenecking applications. We demonstrate that it is possible to significantly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Paras Jain , Sam Kumar , Sarah Wooders , Shishir G. Patil , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

Growing interest in Cloud Computing places a heavy workload on cloud providers which is becoming increasingly difficult for them to manage with their primary datacenter infrastructures. Resource limitations can make providers vulnerable to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Syeda ZarAfshan Gohera , Peter Bloodsworth , Raihan Ur Rasool , Richard McClatchey

This paper investigates a range of cutting-edge technologies and architectural innovations aimed at simplifying network operations, reducing operational expenditure (OpEx), and enabling the deployment of new service models. The focus is on…

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The exponential increase in mobile data demand, coupled with growing user expectation to be connected in all places at all times, have introduced novel challenges for researchers to address. Fortunately, the wide spread deployment of…

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General-purpose optical accelerators (GOAs) have emerged as a promising platform to accelerate deep neural networks (DNNs) due to their low latency and energy consumption. Such an accelerator is usually composed of a given number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Sijie Fei , Amro Eldebiky , Grace Li Zhang , Bing Li , Ulf Schlichtmann

We consider a hierarchical edge-cloud architecture in which services are provided to mobile users as chains of virtual network functions. Each service has specific computation requirements and target delay performance, which require placing…

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Reconfigurable data center networks (DCNs) enhance traditional architectures with optical circuit switches (OCSs), enabling dynamic reconfiguration of inter-pod links, i.e., the logical topology. Optimizing this topology is crucial for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yingming Mao , Qiaozhu Zhai , Ximeng Liu , Xinchi Han , Fafan li , Shizhen Zhao , Yuzhou Zhou , Zhen Yao , Xia Zhu

In this paper, the acceleration of algorithms using a design of a field programmable gate array (FPGA) as a prototype of a static dataflow architecture is discussed. The static dataflow architecture using operators interconnected by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jorge Luiz e Silva , Joelmir Jose Lopes , Bruno de Abreu Silva , Antonio Carlos Fernandes da Silva

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a recent explicit 3D representation that has achieved high-quality reconstruction and real-time rendering of complex scenes. However, the rasterization pipeline still suffers from unnecessary overhead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Xinzhe Wang , Ran Yi , Lizhuang Ma

Mobile cloud computing enables the offloading of computationally heavy applications, such as for gaming, object recognition or video processing, from mobile users (MUs) to cloudlet or cloud servers, which are connected to wireless access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Ali Al-Shuwaili , Osvaldo Simeone , Alireza Bagheri , Gesualdo Scutari

Resource allocation is today an integral part of cloud infrastructures management to efficiently exploit resources. Cloud infrastructures centers generally use custom built heuristics to define the resource allocations. It is an immediate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Roman Ursu , Khalid Latif , David Novo , Manuel Selva , Abdoulaye Gamatie , Gilles Sassatelli , Dmitry Khabi , Alexey Cheptsov

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a powerful tool for model-free Radio Access Network (RAN) signal processing and optimization. However, designing a single model that generalizes across all radio environments is challenging.…

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Efficient runtime task scheduling on complex memory hierarchy becomes increasingly important as modern and future High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems are progressively composed of multisocket and multi-chiplet nodes with nonuniform…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Mustafa Abduljabbar , Mahmoud Eljammaly , Miquel Pericas