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Specialized hardware like application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) remains the primary accelerator type for cryptographic kernels based on large integer arithmetic. Prior work has shown that commodity and server-class GPUs can…

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Distributed machine learning workloads use data and tensor parallelism for training and inference, both of which rely on the AllReduce collective to synchronize gradients or activations. However, AllReduce algorithms are delayed by the…

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The scaling of computation throughput continues to outpace improvements in memory bandwidth, making many deep learning workloads memory-bound. Kernel fusion is a key technique to alleviate this problem, but the fusion strategies of existing…

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Scientific simulation leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) systems is crucial for modeling complex systems and phenomena in fields such as astrophysics, climate science, and fluid dynamics, generating massive datasets that often…

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Geospatial Processing, such as queries based on point-to-polyline shortest distance and point-in-polygon test, are fundamental to many scientific and engineering applications, including post-processing large-scale environmental and climate…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Jianting Zhang Simin You

Irregular applications comprise an increasingly important workload domain for many fields, including bioinformatics, chemistry, physics, social sciences and machine learning. Therefore, achieving high performance and energy efficiency in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Christina Giannoula

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

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Modern database clusters entail two levels of networks: connecting CPUs and NUMA regions inside a single server in the small and multiple servers in the large. The huge performance gap between these two types of networks used to slow down…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Wolf Roediger , Tobias Muehlbauer , Alfons Kemper , Thomas Neumann

The search for similar genetic sequences is one of the main bioinformatics tasks. The genetic sequences data banks are growing exponentially and the searching techniques that use linear time are not capable to do the search in the required…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-13 Felipe Albrecht

Computer vision applications constitute one of the key drivers for embedded multicore architectures. Although the number of available cores is increasing in new architectures, designing an application to maximize the utilization of the…

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This paper presents implementation details and empirical results for a hybrid message passing and shared memory paralleliziation of the adaptive integral method (AIM). AIM is implemented on a (near) petaflop supercomputing cluster of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Fangzhou Wei , Ali E. Yılmaz

Over recent years heterogeneous systems have become more prevalent across HPC systems, with over 100 supercomputers in the TOP500 incorporating GPUs or other accelerators. These hardware platforms have different performance characteristics…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-04-11 John Lawson , Mehdi Goli , Duncan McBain , Daniel Soutar , Louis Sugy

OpenCL for FPGA enables developers to design FPGAs using a programming model similar for processors. Recent works have shown that code optimization at the OpenCL level is important to achieve high computational efficiency. However, existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Ji Liu , Abdullah-Al Kafi , Xipeng Shen , Huiyang Zhou

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly the Large Language Models (LLMs), have profoundly affected our daily work and communication forms. However, it is still a challenge to deploy LLMs on resource-constrained…

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We develop methods for accelerating metric similarity search that are effective on modern hardware. Our algorithms factor into easily parallelizable components, making them simple to deploy and efficient on multicore CPUs and GPUs. Despite…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Lawrence Cayton

FPGA vendors have recently started focusing on OpenCL for FPGAs because of its ability to leverage the parallelism inherent to heterogeneous computing platforms. OpenCL allows programs running on a host computer to launch accelerator…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Abhishek Kumar Jain , Douglas L. Maskell , Suhaib A. Fahmy

As modern HPC computing platforms become increasingly heterogeneous, it is challenging for programmers to fully leverage the computation power of massive parallelism offered by such heterogeneity. Consequently, task-based runtime systems…

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The growing demand for deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) on edge devices, including laptops, smartphones, and embedded platforms, has exposed fundamental inefficiencies in existing accelerators. While GPUs handle prefill workloads…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinane Bazzi , Mariam Rakka , Fadi Kurdahi , Mohammed E. Fouda , Ahmed Eltawil

Energy efficiency has become a key concern in modern computing. Major processor vendors now offer heterogeneous architectures that combine powerful cores with energy-efficient ones, such as Intel P/E systems, Apple M1 chips, and Samsungs…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Till Smejkal , Robert Khasanov , Jeronimo Castrillon , Hermann Härtig

Today's exponentially increasing data volumes and the high cost of storage make compression essential for the Big Data industry. Although research has concentrated on efficient compression, fast decompression is critical for analytics…

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