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This paper presents the implementation of a HLLC finite volume solver using GPU technology for the solution of shallow water problems in two dimensions. It compares both CPU and GPU approaches for implementing all the solver's steps. The…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Fabrice Zaoui

This report evaluates the performance impact of enabling Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) on NVIDIA Hopper GPUs for large language model (LLM) inference tasks. We benchmark the overhead introduced by TEE mode across various LLMs and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Jianwei Zhu , Hang Yin , Peng Deng , Aline Almeida , Shunfan Zhou

Large language model (LLM) inference performance is increasingly bottlenecked by the memory wall. While GPUs continue to scale raw compute throughput, they struggle to deliver scalable performance for memory bandwidth bound workloads. This…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Matthew Adiletta , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks

Resource-management tasks in modern operating and distributed systems continue to rely primarily on hand-designed heuristics for tasks such as scheduling, caching, or active queue management. Designing performant heuristics is an expensive,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rohit Dwivedula , Divyanshu Saxena , Sujay Yadalam , Daehyeok Kim , Aditya Akella

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used but expensive to run, especially as inference workloads grow. To lower costs, maximizing the request batch size by managing GPU memory efficiently is crucial. While PagedAttention has recently…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Chen Zhang , Kuntai Du , Shu Liu , Woosuk Kwon , Xiangxi Mo , Yufeng Wang , Xiaoxuan Liu , Kaichao You , Zhuohan Li , Mingsheng Long , Jidong Zhai , Joseph Gonzalez , Ion Stoica

The efficiency of GPU kernels is central to the progress of modern AI, yet optimizing them remains a difficult and labor-intensive task due to complex interactions between memory hierarchies, thread scheduling, and hardware-specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Juncheng Dong , Yang Yang , Tao Liu , Yang Wang , Feng Qi , Vahid Tarokh , Kaushik Rangadurai , Shuang Yang

Neural networks have become dominant computational workloads across cloud and edge platforms, but their rapid growth in model size and deployment diversity has exposed hardware bottlenecks increasingly dominated by memory movement,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Bin Xu , Ayan Banerjee , Sandeep Gupta

Despite the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in hardware design, a comprehensive evaluation of their capabilities in design verification remains underexplored. Current efforts predominantly focus on RTL generation…

Engineering design operates through hierarchical abstraction from system specifications to component implementations, requiring visual understanding coupled with mathematical reasoning at each level. While Multi-modal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Arman Akbari , Jian Gao , Yifei Zou , Mei Yang , Jinru Duan , Dmitrii Torbunov , Yanzhi Wang , Yihui Ren , Xuan Zhang

The rapidly growing popularity and scale of data-parallel workloads demand a corresponding increase in raw computational power of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units). As single-GPU systems struggle to satisfy the performance demands, multi-GPU…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yifan Sun , Trinayan Baruah , Saiful A. Mojumder , Shi Dong , Rafael Ubal , Xiang Gong , Shane Treadway , Yuhui Bao , Vincent Zhao , José L. Abellán , John Kim , Ajay Joshi , David Kaeli

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…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Mingqiang Huang , Ao Shen , Kai Li , Haoxiang Peng , Boyu Li , Yupeng Su , Hao Yu

LLM inference exhibits substantial variability across queries and execution phases, yet inference configurations are often applied uniformly. We present a measurement-driven characterization of workload heterogeneity and energy-performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Paul Joe Maliakel , Shashikant Ilager , Ivona Brandic

As Deep Learning (DL) models have been increasingly used in latency-sensitive applications, there has been a growing interest in improving their response time. An important venue for such improvement is to profile the execution of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Cheng Li , Abdul Dakkak , Jinjun Xiong , Wen-mei Hwu

The proliferation of IoT devices and advancements in network technologies have intensified the demand for real-time data processing at the network edge. To address these demands, low-power AI accelerators, particularly GPUs, are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Abhinaba Chakraborty , Wouter Tavernier , Akis Kourtis , Mario Pickavet , Andreas Oikonomakis , Didier Colle

Training large language models (LLMs) is known to be challenging because of the huge computational and memory capacity requirements. To address these issues, it is common to use a cluster of GPUs with 3D parallelism, which splits a model…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jinkyu Yim , Jaeyong Song , Yerim Choi , Jaebeen Lee , Jaewon Jung , Hongsun Jang , Jinho Lee

The common assumption in on-device AI is that GPUs, with their superior parallel processing, always provide the best performance for large language model (LLM) inference. In this work, we challenge this notion by empirically demonstrating…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Haolin Zhang , Jeff Huang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to automate software development, yet most prior evaluations focus on functional correctness or high-level languages such as Python. As one of the first systematic explorations of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Atieh Barati Nia , Mohammad Dindoost , David A. Bader

Optimizing Large Language Model (LLM) inference in production systems is increasingly difficult due to dynamic workloads, stringent latency/throughput targets, and a rapidly expanding configuration space. This complexity spans not only…

This work elaborates on a High performance computing (HPC) architecture based on Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM) [1] for deploying heterogeneous Large Language Models (LLMs) into a scalable inference engine. Dynamic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Anderson de Lima Luiz , Shubham Vijay Kurlekar , Munir Georges

In particular, large-scale deep learning and artificial intelligence model training uses a lot of computational power and energy, so it poses serious sustainability issues. The fast rise in model complexity has resulted in exponential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yashasvi Makin , Rahul Maliakkal