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Mobile edge computing (MEC) has recently emerged as a promising technology to release the tension between computation-intensive applications and resource-limited mobile terminals (MTs). In this paper, we study the delay-optimal computation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Xianling Meng , Wei Wang , Yitu Wang , Vincent K. N. Lau , Zhaoyang Zhang

The scalability of long-context large language models is fundamentally limited by the quadratic memory cost of exact self-attention, which often leads to out-of-memory (OOM) failures on modern hardware. Existing methods improve memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yiming Bian , Joshua M. Akey

This paper proposes TRAININGCXL that can efficiently process large-scale recommendation datasets in the pool of disaggregated memory while making training fault tolerant with low overhead. To this end, i) we integrate persistent memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Miryeong Kwon , Junhyeok Jang , Hanjin Choi , Sangwon Lee , Myoungsoo Jung

The proliferation of data-intensive applications, ranging from large language models to key-value stores, increasingly stresses memory systems with mixed read-write access patterns. Traditional half-duplex architectures such as DDR5 are…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yiwei Yang , Yusheng Zheng , Yiqi Chen , Zheng Liang , Kexin Chu , Zhe Zhou , Andi Quinn , Wei Zhang

The substantial memory requirements of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly for long-context fine-tuning, have renewed interest in CPU offloading to augment limited GPU memory. However, as context lengths grow, relying on CPU memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yong-Cheng Liaw , Shuo-Han Chen

The emergence of CXL (Compute Express Link) promises to transform the status of interconnects between host and devices and in turn impact the design of all software layers. With its low overhead, low latency, and memory coherency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Raja Gond , Purushottam Kulkarni

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

This work introduces a GPU storage expansion solution utilizing CXL, featuring a novel GPU system design with multiple CXL root ports for integrating diverse storage media (DRAMs and/or SSDs). We developed and siliconized a custom CXL…

This paper explores how Compute Express Link (CXL) can transform PCIe-based block storage into a scalable, byte-addressable working memory. We address the challenges of adapting block storage to CXL's memory-centric model by emphasizing…

Hardware based memory pooling enabled by interconnect standards like CXL have been gaining popularity amongst cloud providers and system integrators. While pooling memory resources has cost benefits, it comes at a penalty of increased…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Chandrahas Tirumalasetty , Narasimha Annapreddy

Conventional heterogeneous computing systems built on PCIe interconnects suffer from inefficient fine-grained host-device interactions and complex programming models. In recent years, many proprietary and open cache-coherent interconnect…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yanjing Wang , Lizhou Wu , Sunfeng Gao , Yibo Tang , Junhui Luo , Zicong Wang , Yang Ou , Dezun Dong , Nong Xiao , Mingche Lai

Heterogeneous multi-core architectures combine a few "host" cores, optimized for single-thread performance, with many small energy-efficient "accelerator" cores for data-parallel processing, on a single chip. Offloading a computation to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Luca Colagrande , Luca Benini

By supporting the access of multiple memory words at the same time, Bit-line Computing (BC) architectures allow the parallel execution of bit-wise operations in-memory. At the array periphery, arithmetic operations are then derived with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Marco Rios , Flavio Ponzina , Alexandre Levisse , Giovanni Ansaloni , David Atienza

This paper proposes ScalePool, a novel cluster architecture designed to interconnect numerous accelerators using unified hardware interconnects rather than traditional long-distance networking. ScalePool integrates Accelerator-Centric Links…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hyein Woo , Miryeong Kwon , Jiseon Kim , Eunjee Na , Hanjin Choi , Seonghyeon Jang , Myoungsoo Jung

Streaming graphs are drawing increasing attention in both academic and industrial communities as many graphs in real applications evolve over time. Continuous subgraph matching (shorted as CSM) aims to report the incremental matches of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Rongjian Yang , Zhijie Zhang , Weiguo Zheng , Jeffery Xu Yu

The Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect enables compute "pods" that pool memory across servers to reduce cost and improve efficiency. These pods also facilitate pairwise communication whose needs conflict with pooling. Importantly,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhong Zhong , Fiodar Kazhamiaka , Pantea Zardoshti , Shuwei Teng , Rodrigo Fonseca , Mark D. Hill , Daniel S. Berger

Compute Express Link (CXL) switch allows memory extension via PCIe physical layer to address increasing demand for larger memory capacities in data centers. However, CXL attached memory introduces 170ns to 400ns memory latency. This becomes…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Khan Shaikhul Hadi , Naveed Ul Mustafa , Mark Heinrich , Yan Solihin

This paper studies the offloading service improvement of multi-access edge computing (MEC) based on backscatter communication (BackCom) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (BAC-NOMA). A hybrid BAC-NOMA protocol is proposed, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haodong Li

Compute eXpress Link (CXL) is a promising technology for memory disaggregation and expansion. Especially, CXL makes it more effectively for large-capacity storage devices such as Solid State Drive (SSD) to be deployed in the memory pool.…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yaohui Wang , Zicong Wang , Fanfeng Meng , Yanjing Wang , Yang Ou , Lizhou Wu , Wentao Hong , Xuran Ge , Jijun Cao

The Compute Express Link (CXL) technology facilitates the extension of CPU memory through byte-addressable SerDes links and cascaded switches, creating complex heterogeneous memory systems where CPU access to various endpoints differs in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yiqi Chen , Xiping Dong , Zhe Zhou , Zhao Wang , Jie Zhang , Guangyu Sun