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Recently, efficiently deploying deep learning solutions on the edge has received increasing attention. New platforms are emerging to support the increasing demand for flexibility and high performance. In this work, we explore the efficient…

Graphs are essential for representing relationships in various domains, driving modern AI applications such as graph analytics and neural networks across science, engineering, cybersecurity, transportation, and economics. However, the size…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-05 William Shaddix , Mahyar Samani , Marjan Fariborz , S. J. Ben Yoo , Jason Lowe-Power , Venkatesh Akella

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) enable ease of programmability and result in low development costs. They enable the ease of use specifically in reconfigurable computing applications. The smaller cost of compilation and reduced…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Amit Kulkarni , Dirk Stroobandt , Andre Werner , Florian Fricke , Michael Huebner

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) are specialized accelerators commonly employed to boost performance in workloads with iterative structures. Existing research typically focuses on compiler or architecture optimizations aimed at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiangfeng Liu , Zhe Jiang , Anzhen Zhu , Xiaomeng Han , Mingsong Lyu , Qingxu Deng , Nan Guan

The next generation HPC and data centers are likely to be reconfigurable and data-centric due to the trend of hardware specialization and the emergence of data-driven applications. In this paper, we propose ARENA -- an asynchronous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Cheng Tan , Chenhao Xie , Tong Geng , Andres Marquez , Antonino Tumeo , Kevin Barker , Ang Li

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) offer high performance and energy efficiency across domains, yet design remains difficult due to a vast, interdependent space and costly manual iteration. We present MACO, an open-source…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zesong Jiang , Yuqi Sun , Qing Zhong , Mahathi Krishna , Deepak Patil , Cheng Tan , Jeff Zhang

Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) are domain-specific devices promising both the flexibility of FPGAs and the performance of ASICs. However, with restricted domains comes a danger: designing chips that cannot accelerate enough…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jackson Woodruff , Thomas Koehler , Alexander Brauckmann , Chris Cummins , Sam Ainsworth , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

Stencils represent a class of computational patterns where an output grid point depends on a fixed shape of neighboring points in an input grid. Stencil computations are prevalent in scientific applications engaging a significant portion of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Fabrizio Petrini , Hongbo Rong , Andrei Valentin , Carl Ebeling

Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) hold great promise as power-efficient edge accelerator, offering versatility beyond AI applications. Morpher, an open-source, architecture-adaptive CGRA design framework, is specifically designed…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Dhananjaya Wijerathne , Zhaoying Li , Tulika Mitra

Model Recovery (MR) is a core primitive for physical AI and real-time digital twins, but GPUs often execute MR inefficiently due to iterative dependencies, kernel-launch overheads, underutilized memory bandwidth, and high data-movement…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Xu , Ayan Banerjee , Sandeep Gupta

Transformer-based models are becoming deeper and larger recently. For better scalability, an underlying training solution in industry is to split billions of parameters (tensors) into many tasks and then run them across homogeneous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhigang Wang , Xu Zhang , Ning Wang , Chuanfei Xu , Jie Nie , Zhiqiang Wei , Yu Gu , Ge Yu

Multi-device inference can reduce Transformer latency by parallelizing computation. However, existing methods require high inter-device bandwidth, making them impractical for bandwidth-constrained environments. We present ASTRA, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Xiao Liu , Lijun Zhang , Deepak Ganesan , Hui Guan

Breadth-First Search (BFS) is a fundamental graph kernel that underpins a wide range of applications. While modern GPUs provide specialised Matrix-Multiply-Accumulate (MMA) units, e.g., Tensor Cores (TC), with extremely high throughput,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Deniz Elbek , Kamer Kaya

Virtual machine live migration in cloud environments aims at reducing energy costs and increasing resource utilization. However, its potential has not been fully explored because of simultaneous migrations that may cause user application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Artur Baruchi , Edson T. Midorikawa , Liria M. Sato , Marco A. S. Netto

While GPUs dominate massively parallel computing through the single-instruction, multiple-thread (SIMT) programming model, their underlying single-instruction, multiple-data (SIMD) execution incurs substantial energy overhead from frequent…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiayi Wang , Ang Da Lu , Zhichen Zeng , Ang Li

We propose a federated learning (FL) in stratosphere (FLSTRA) system, where a high altitude platform station (HAPS) facilitates a large number of terrestrial clients to collaboratively learn a global model without sharing the training data.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Amin Farajzadeh , Animesh Yadav , Omid Abbasi , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Continuous learning (CL) has emerged as one of the most popular deep learning paradigms deployed in modern cloud GPUs. Specifically, CL has the capability to continuously update the model parameters (through model retraining) and use the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Tianyu Wang , Sheng Li , Bingyao Li , Yue Dai , Ao Li , Geng Yuan , Yufei Ding , Youtao Zhang , Xulong Tang

Data movement is the dominating factor affecting performance and energy in modern computing systems. Consequently, many algorithms have been developed to minimize the number of I/O operations for common computing patterns. Matrix…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Johannes de Fine Licht , Grzegorz Kwasniewski , Torsten Hoefler

Increasing demands for computing power also propel the need for energy-efficient SoC accelerator architectures. One class of such accelerators are so-called processor arrays, which typically integrate a two-dimensional mesh of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Dominik Walter , Marita Halm , Daniel Seidel , Indrayudh Ghosh , Christian Heidorn , Frank Hannig , Jürgen Teich

Large Language Models (LLMs) demand substantial computational resources, resulting in high energy consumption on GPUs. To address this challenge, we focus on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) as an effective alternative that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Takuto Ando , Yu Eto , Ayumu Takeuchi , Yasuhiko Nakashima