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This paper provides an in-depth characterization of GPU-accelerated systems, to understand the interplay between overlapping computation and communication which is commonly employed in distributed training settings. Due to the large size of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Seonho Lee , Jihwan Oh , Junkyum Kim , Seokjin Go , Jongse Park , Divya Mahajan

This paper addresses the challenge of understanding the waiting dependencies between the threads and hardware resources required to complete a task. The objective is to improve software performance by detecting the underlying bottlenecks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Naser Ezzati-Jivan , Quentin Fournier , Michel R. Dagenais , Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

This paper describes two research projects that develop new low-cost techniques for testing devices with multiple high-speed (2 to 5 Gbps) signals. Each project uses commercially available components to keep costs low, yet achieves…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 D. C. Keezer , C. Gray , A. Majid , N. Taher

There is a growing need for low latency for many devices and users. The traditional cloud computing paradigm can not meet this requirement, legitimizing the need for a new paradigm. Edge computing proposes to move computing capacities to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Samuel Rac , Mats Brorsson

GPU-based fast Fourier transform (FFT) is extremely important for scientific computing and signal processing. However, we find the inefficiency of existing FFT libraries and the absence of fault tolerance against soft error. To address…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shixun Wu , Yujia Zhai , Jinyang Liu , Jiajun Huang , Zizhe Jian , Huangliang Dai , Sheng Di , Franck Cappello , Zizhong Chen

GPUs are now used for a wide range of problems within HPC. However, making efficient use of the computational power available with multiple GPUs is challenging. The main challenges in achieving good performance are memory layout, affecting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Robert Clucas , Philip Blakely , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

Developing high-performance and energy-efficient algorithms for maximum matchings is becoming increasingly important in social network analysis, computational sciences, scheduling, and others. In this work, we propose the first maximum…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Maciej Besta , Marc Fischer , Tal Ben-Nun , Dimitri Stanojevic , Johannes De Fine Licht , Torsten Hoefler

The performance of CPU-based and GPU-based systems is often low for PDE codes, where large, sparse, and often structured systems of linear equations must be solved. Iterative solvers are limited by data movement, both between caches and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Kamil Rocki , Dirk Van Essendelft , Ilya Sharapov , Robert Schreiber , Michael Morrison , Vladimir Kibardin , Andrey Portnoy , Jean Francois Dietiker , Madhava Syamlal , Michael James

Distributed computing frameworks such as MapReduce are often used to process large computational jobs. They operate by partitioning each job into smaller tasks executed on different servers. The servers also need to exchange intermediate…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Konstantinos Konstantinidis , Aditya Ramamoorthy

There has been significant recent interest in parallel graph processing due to the need to quickly analyze the large graphs available today. Many graph codes have been designed for distributed memory or external memory. However, today even…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Laxman Dhulipala , Guy E. Blelloch , Julian Shun

Nowadays, we are to find out solutions to huge computing problems very rapidly. It brings the idea of parallel computing in which several machines or processors work cooperatively for computational tasks. In the past decades, there are a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Brijender Kahanwal

The emerging edge-hub-cloud paradigm has enabled the development of innovative latency-critical cyber-physical applications in the edge-cloud continuum. However, this paradigm poses multiple challenges due to the heterogeneity of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andreas Kouloumpris , Georgios L. Stavrinides , Maria K. Michael , Theocharis Theocharides

The arrival of heterogeneous (or hybrid) multicore architectures has brought new performance trade-offs for applications, and efficiency opportunities to systems. They have also increased the challenges related to thread scheduling, as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yacine Idouar , Adrien Cassagne , Laércio Lima Pilla , Julien Sopena , Manuel Bouyer , Diane Orhan , Lionel Lacassagne , Dimitri Galayko , Denis Barthou , Christophe Jego

We present Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh (PPPM) and Tree Particle-Mesh (TreePM) implementations on GRAPE-5 and GRAPE-6A systems, special-purpose hardware accelerators for gravitational many-body simulations. In our PPPM and TreePM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Yoshikawa , Toshiyuki Fukushige

Graph algorithms and techniques are increasingly being used in scientific and commercial applications to express relations and explore large data sets. Although conventional or commodity computer architectures, like CPU or GPU, can compute…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Michel A. Kinsy , Rashmi S. Agrawal , Hien D. Nguyen

Recently, cloud systems composed of heterogeneous hardware have been increased to utilize progressed hardware power. However, to program applications for heterogeneous hardware to achieve high performance needs much technical skill and is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yoji Yamato

High performance computing (HPC) and cloud have traditionally been separate, and presented in an adversarial light. The conflict arises from disparate beginnings that led to two drastically different cultures, incentive structures, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Vanessa Sochat , David Fox , Daniel Milroy

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

High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms allow scientists to model computationally intensive algorithms. HPC clusters increasingly use General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) as accelerators; FPGAs provide an attractive…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Syed Waqar Nabi , Saji N. Hameed , Wim Vanderbauwhede

Major bottlenecks of large-scale Federated Learning(FL) networks are the high costs for communication and computation. This is due to the fact that most of current FL frameworks only consider a star network topology where all local trained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Thinh Quang Dinh , Diep N. Nguyen , Dinh Thai Hoang , Pham Tran Vu , Eryk Dutkiewicz