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All current LLM serving systems place the GPU at the center, from production-level attention-FFN disaggregation to NVIDIA's Rubin GPU-LPU heterogeneous platform. Even academic PIM/PNM proposals still treat the GPU as the central hub for…

Limited memory bandwidth is a critical bottleneck in modern systems. 3D-stacked DRAM enables higher bandwidth by leveraging wider Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) channels, but today's systems cannot fully exploit them due to the limited internal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Donghyuk Lee , Gennady Pekhimenko , Samira Khan , Saugata Ghose , Onur Mutlu

In this paper, we conduct systematic measurement studies to show that the high memory bandwidth consumption of modern distributed applications can lead to a significant drop of network throughput and a large increase of tail latency in…

LLM inference is constrained by GPU memory capacity and bandwidth. Tiered memory architectures mitigate this by allowing the GPU to offload memory to the remote tier. However, existing memory offloading frameworks rely on prefetching data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shouxu Lin , Zhiyuan Guo , Jiaxin Lin

With the growing number of data-intensive workloads, GPU, which is the state-of-the-art single-instruction-multiple-thread (SIMT) processor, is hindered by the memory bandwidth wall. To alleviate this bottleneck, previously proposed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Xinfeng Xie , Peng Gu , Yufei Ding , Dimin Niu , Hongzhong Zheng , Yuan Xie

In this paper, we investigate unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted communication systems that require quasi-balanced data rates in uplink (UL) and downlink (DL), as well as users' heterogeneous traffic. To the best of our knowledge, this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Haiyong Zeng , Xu Zhu , Yufei Jiang , Zhongxiang Wei , Sumei Sun

Modern day applications have grown in size and require more computational power. The rise of machine learning and AI increased the need for parallel computation, which has increased the need for GPGPUs. With the increasing demand for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Injae Shin , Blaise Tine

The continued growth of the computational capability of throughput processors has made throughput processors the platform of choice for a wide variety of high performance computing applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a prime…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Rachata Ausavarungnirun

With the rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-adapters have become increasingly common, providing lightweight specialization of large-scale models. Serving hundreds or thousands of these adapters on a single GPU allows…

Even with generational improvements in DRAM technology, memory access latency still remains the major bottleneck for application accelerators, primarily due to limitations in memory interface IPs which cannot fully account for variations in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sasindu Wijeratne , Sanket Pattnaik , Zhiyu Chen , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

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

KV cache offloading enables long-context LLM inference by storing caches in CPU DRAM, but PCIe bandwidth limitations create severe bottlenecks. In this paper, we develops an analytical framework that derives $\kappa_{\text{crit}}$, the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 William Meng , Benjamin Lee , Hong Wang

Large language models have been widely adopted across different tasks, but their auto-regressive generation nature often leads to inefficient resource utilization during inference. While batching is commonly used to increase throughput,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Pol G. Recasens , Ferran Agullo , Yue Zhu , Chen Wang , Eun Kyung Lee , Olivier Tardieu , Jordi Torres , Josep Ll. Berral

The attention layer, a core component of Transformer-based LLMs, brings out inefficiencies in current GPU systems due to its low operational intensity and the substantial memory requirements of KV caches. We propose a High-bandwidth…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Myunghyun Rhee , Joonseop Sim , Taeyoung Ahn , Seungyong Lee , Daegun Yoon , Euiseok Kim , Kyoung Park , Youngpyo Joo , Hoshik Kim

Heterogeneous Memory Architecture (HMA) aims to optimize memory usage by leveraging a combination of memory types, such as high-bandwidth memory (HBM), commodity DRAM, and non-volatile memory (NVM), when utilized as main memory. To achieve…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Upasna , Venkata Kalyan Tavva

Inference on large-language models (LLMs) is constrained by GPU memory capacity. A sudden increase in the number of inference requests to a cloud-hosted LLM can deplete GPU memory, leading to contention between multiple prompts for limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Abhishek Vijaya Kumar , Gianni Antichi , Rachee Singh

As the size of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) models and datasets grows, the memory bandwidth becomes a critical bottleneck. The paper presents a novel extended memory hierarchy that addresses some major memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jordi Altayo , Paul Delestrac , David Novo , Simey Yang , Debjyoti Bhattacharjee , Francky Catthoor

LLMs now form the backbone of AI agents across a diverse range of applications, including tool use, command-line interfaces, and web or computer interaction. These agentic LLM inference tasks are fundamentally different from chatbot-focused…

Running language models in the browser presents a unique opportunity to build efficient, private, and portable AI applications, but requires contending with constrained memory availability and heterogeneous hardware targets. To realize this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Reese Levine , Rithik Sharma , Nikhil Jain , Abhijit Ramesh , Zheyuan Chen , Neha Abbas , James Contini , Tyler Sorensen

A large language model (LLM) is one of the most important emerging machine learning applications nowadays. However, due to its huge model size and runtime increase of the memory footprint, LLM inferences suffer from the lack of memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Soojin Hwang , Jungwoo Kim , Sanghyeon Lee , Hongbeen Kim , Jaehyuk Huh
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