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Transformers have revolutionized deep learning with applications in natural language processing, computer vision, and beyond. However, their computational demands make it challenging to deploy them on low-power edge devices. This paper…

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For computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications with a large number of grid points/cells, parallel computing is a common efficient strategy to reduce the computational time. How to achieve the best performance in the modern…

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With high computation power and memory bandwidth, graphics processing units (GPUs) lend themselves to accelerate data-intensive analytics, especially when such applications fit the single instruction multiple data (SIMD) model. However,…

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

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Structured Cartesian grids are a fundamental component in numerical simulations. Although these grids facilitate straightforward discretization schemes, their na\"{i}ve use in sparse domains leads to excessive memory overhead and…

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It is a challenging task to train large DNN models on sophisticated GPU platforms with diversified interconnect capabilities. Recently, pipelined training has been proposed as an effective approach for improving device utilization. However,…

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The architecture of a coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) processing element (PE) has a significant effect on the performance and energy efficiency of an application running on the CGRA. This paper presents an automated approach for…

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Pretraining models with unsupervised graph representation learning has led to significant advancements in domains such as social network analysis, molecular design, and electronic design automation (EDA). However, prior work in EDA has…

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Modern GPUs synchronize threads grouped in a warp at every instruction. These results in improving SIMD efficiency and makes sharing fetch and decode resources possible. The number of threads included in each warp (or warp size) affects…

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Processing-using-DRAM has been proposed for a limited set of basic operations (i.e., logic operations, addition). However, in order to enable full adoption of processing-using-DRAM, it is necessary to provide support for more complex…

Coarse-grained reconfigurable arrays (CGRAs) have attracted growing interest because they exhibit performance and energy efficiency competitive with ASICs while maintaining flexibility similar to FPGAs. These properties make CGRAs…

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Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) present both high flexibility and efficiency, making them well-suited for the acceleration of intensive workloads. Nevertheless, a key barrier towards their widespread adoption is posed by CGRA…

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Compute-in-memory (CiM) is a promising approach to improving the computing speed and energy efficiency in dataintensive applications. Beyond existing CiM techniques of bitwise logic-in-memory operations and dot product operations, this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Yiming Chen , Yushen Fu , Mingyen Lee , Sumitha George , Yongpan Liu , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Huazhong Yang , Xueqing Li

Diffusion-based generation is increasingly powering production content pipelines; however, deploying these models at scale remains a significant challenge. Model weights frequently exceed the memory capacity of commodity GPUs, while the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hantian Zha , Teng Ma , Yang Yong , Haiwen Fu , Ruiyang Ma , Wei Gao , Ruihao Gong , Xianglong Liu , Wei Wang , Yunpeng Chai

The SIMT execution model is commonly used for general GPU development. CUDA and OpenCL developers write scalar code that is implicitly parallelized by compiler and hardware. On Intel GPUs, however, this abstraction has profound performance…

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