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Modern large-scale computing systems (data centers, supercomputers, cloud and edge setups and high-end cyber-physical systems) employ heterogeneous architectures that consist of multicore CPUs, general-purpose many-core GPUs, and…

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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are widely-used accelerators for data-parallel applications. In many GPU applications, GPU memory bandwidth bottlenecks performance, causing underutilization of GPU cores. Hence, disabling many cores does…

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Collocating deep learning training tasks improves GPU utilization but risks resource contention, severe slowdowns, and out-of-memory (OOM) failures. Accurate memory estimation is essential for robust collocation, and GPU utilization…

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As GPUs scale their low precision matrix math throughput to boost deep learning (DL) performance, they upset the balance between math throughput and memory system capabilities. We demonstrate that converged GPU design trying to address…

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GPUs are widely used to accelerate the training of machine learning workloads. As modern machine learning models become increasingly larger, they require a longer time to train, leading to higher GPU energy consumption. This paper presents…

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In order to satisfy timing constraints, modern real-time applications require massively parallel accelerators such as General Purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPGPUs). Generation after generation, the number of computing clusters made…

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Energy system optimization models are increasing in scope and resolution, yielding large and challenging linear programs. For a long time, the standard way to address such problems has relied on shared-memory interior-point methods (IPM),…

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Component-based development is a software engineering paradigm that can facilitate the construction of embedded systems and tackle its complexities. The modern embedded systems have more and more demanding requirements. One way to cope with…

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In recent years, GPUs have become the preferred accelerators for HPC and ML applications due to their parallelism and fast memory bandwidth. While GPUs boost computation, inter-GPU communication can create scalability bottlenecks,…

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GPUs are prevalent in modern computing systems at all scales. They consume a significant fraction of the energy in these systems. However, vendors do not publish the actual cost of the power/energy overhead of their internal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yehia Arafa , Ammar ElWazir , Abdelrahman ElKanishy , Youssef Aly , Ayatelrahman Elsayed , Abdel-Hameed Badawy , Gopinath Chennupati , Stephan Eidenbenz , Nandakishore Santhi

General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit(GPGPU) is used widely for achieving high performance or high throughput in parallel programming. This capability of GPGPUs is very famous in the new era and mostly used for scientific computing which…

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Over the past decade, the landscape of data analytics has seen a notable shift towards heterogeneous architectures, particularly the integration of GPUs to enhance overall performance. In the realm of in-memory analytics, which often…

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