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Memory dominates datacenter system cost and power. Memory expansion via Compute Express Link (CXL) is an effective way to provide additional memory at lower cost and power, but its effective use requires software-level tiering for…

Tiered memory, built upon a combination of fast memory and slow memory, provides a cost-effective solution to meet ever-increasing requirements from emerging applications for large memory capacity. Reducing the size of fast memory is…

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) utilizes external knowledge to augment Large Language Models' (LLMs) reliability. For flexibility, agentic RAG employs autonomous, multi-round retrieval and reasoning to resolve queries. Although recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chao Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Derong Xu , Haoxin Zhang , Yuanjie Lyu , Yuhao Chen , Shuochen Liu , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Enhong Chen

Hardware and OS mechanisms for memory tiering are widely deployed, yet datacenters still overprovision DRAM. The root cause is hotness fragmentation: allocators place objects by size rather than access pattern, so hot and cold objects…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Vinay Banakar , Suli Yang , Kan Wu , Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau , Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau , Kimberly Keeton

The shift to data-intensive processing from the cloud to the edge has introduced new challenges and expectations for the next generation of intelligent computing systems. As the memory wall continues to grow, modern systems can only meet…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Denis Hoornaert , Cole Strickler , Manos Athanassoulis , Marco Caccamo , Heechul Yun , Renato Mancuso

This paper addresses emerging system-level challenges in heterogeneous retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) serving, where complex multi-stage workflows and diverse request patterns complicate efficient execution. We present HedraRAG, a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhengding Hu , Vibha Murthy , Zaifeng Pan , Wanlu Li , Xiaoyi Fang , Yufei Ding , Yuke Wang

While providing low latency is a fundamental requirement in deploying recommendation services, achieving high resource utility is also crucial in cost-effectively maintaining the datacenter. Co-locating multiple workers of a model is an…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yujeong Choi , John Kim , Minsoo Rhu

Various hardware accelerators have been developed for energy-efficient and real-time inference of neural networks on edge devices. However, most training is done on high-performance GPUs or servers, and the huge memory and computing costs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Kaiqi Zhang , Cole Hawkins , Xiyuan Zhang , Cong Hao , Zheng Zhang

Many high end and next generation computing systems to incorporated alternative memory technologies to meet performance goals. Since these technologies present distinct advantages and tradeoffs compared to conventional DDR* SDRAM, such as…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-06 M. Ben Olson , Brandon Kammerdiener , Kshitij A. Doshi , Terry Jones , Michael R. Jantz

To support emerging mobile use cases (e.g., AR/VR, autonomous driving, and massive IoT), next-generation mobile cores for 5G and 6G are being re-architected as service-based architectures (SBAs) running on both private and public clouds.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Bilal Saleem , Omar Basit , Jiayi Meng , Iftekhar Alam , Ajay Thakur , Christian Maciocco , Muhammad Shahbaz , Y. Charlie Hu , Larry Peterson

This paper introduces a novel framework for proactive cross-domain resource orchestration in 6G RAN-Edge networks, featuring large language model (LLM)-augmented agents. The system comprises specialized RAN (energy efficiency) and Edge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Hatim Chergui , Miguel Catalan Cid , Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas , Daniel Camps Mur , Christos Verikoukis

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are becoming a promising technique in various domains due to their excellent capabilities in modeling non-Euclidean data. Although a spectrum of accelerators has been proposed to accelerate the inference of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Zeyu Zhu , Fanrong Li , Gang Li , Zejian Liu , Zitao Mo , Qinghao Hu , Xiaoyao Liang , Jian Cheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used across various domains, processing millions of daily requests. This surge in demand poses significant challenges in optimizing throughput and latency while keeping costs manageable. The Key-Value…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiale Xu , Rui Zhang , Cong Guo , Weiming Hu , Zihan Liu , Feiyang Wu , Yu Feng , Shixuan Sun , Changxu Shao , Yuhong Guo , Junping Zhao , Ke Zhang , Minyi Guo , Jingwen Leng

Memory tiering provides a cost-effective solution to increase memory capacity, utilization, and even bandwidth. Memory tiering relies on system software for memory profiling, detection of frequently accessed pages, and page migration. Such…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Xi Wang , Jie Liu , Shuangyan Yang , Jongryool Kim , Pengfei Su , Dong Li

Disaggregation maps parts of an AI workload to different types of GPUs, offering a path to utilize modern heterogeneous GPU clusters. However, existing solutions operate at a coarse granularity and are tightly coupled to specific model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Tiancheng Hu , Jin Qin , Zheng Wang , Junhao Hu , Yuzheng Wang , Lei Chen , Yizhou Shan , Mingxing Zhang , Ting Cao , Chunwei Xia , Huimin Cui , Tao Xie , Chenxi Wang

Deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs) are widely used in industry, and their memory capacity requirements reach the terabyte scale. Tiered memory architectures provide a cost-effective solution but introduce challenges in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jie Ren , Bin Ma , Shuangyan Yang , Benjamin Francis , Ehsan K. Ardestani , Min Si , Dong Li

Hardware specialization is becoming a key enabler of energyefficient performance. Future systems will be increasingly heterogeneous, integrating multiple specialized and programmable accelerators, each with different memory demands.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Johnathan Alsop , Weon Taek Na , Matthew D. Sinclair , Samuel Grayson , Sarita V. Adve

The rapid increase in LLM model sizes and the growing demand for long-context inference have made memory a critical bottleneck in GPU-accelerated serving systems. Although high-bandwidth memory (HBM) on GPUs offers fast access, its limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinjun Yang , Qingda Hu , Junru Li , Feifei Li , Yicong Zhu , Yuqi Zhou , Qiuru Lin , Jian Dai , Yang Kong , Jiayu Zhang , Guoqiang Xu , Qiang Liu

Temporal prefetching, where correlated pairs of addresses are logged and replayed on repeat accesses, has recently become viable in commercial designs. Arm's latest processors include Correlating Miss Chaining prefetchers, which store such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Sam Ainsworth , Lev Mukhanov

Modern computing systems are embracing hybrid memory comprising of DRAM and non-volatile memory (NVM) to combine the best properties of both memory technologies, achieving low latency, high reliability, and high density. A prominent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Shihao Song , Anup Das , Nagarajan Kandasamy