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Modern GPUs incorporate specialized matrix units such as Tensor Cores to accelerate GEMM operations, which are central to deep learning workloads. However, existing matrix unit designs are tightly coupled to the SIMT core, restricting…

One of the main challenges in Heavy Energy Physics is to make fast analysis of high amount of experimental and simulated data. At LHC-CERN one p-p event is approximate 1 Mb in size. The time taken to analyze the data and obtain fast results…

Video analytics pipelines have steadily shifted to edge deployments to reduce bandwidth overheads and privacy violations, but in doing so, face an ever-growing resource tension. Most notably, edge-box GPUs lack the memory needed to…

Many artificial intelligence (AI) devices have been developed to accelerate the training and inference of neural networks models. The most common ones are the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). They are highly…

This article features extended summaries and retrospectives of some of the recent research done by our research group, SAFARI, on (1) various critical problems in memory systems and (2) how memory system bottlenecks affect graphics…

Genetic Programming (GP) is a computationally intensive technique which is naturally parallel in nature. Consequently, many attempts have been made to improve its run-time from exploiting highly parallel hardware such as GPUs. However, a…

GPUs are known to be power-hungry, and due to the boom in artificial intelligence, they are currently the major contributors to the high power demands of upcoming datacenters. Most GPU usage in these popular workloads consist of large…

Graph neural networks (GNNs) emerge as a powerful approach to process non-euclidean data structures and have been proved powerful in various application domains such as social networks and e-commerce. While such graph data maintained in…

The demand for low power processing is increasing due to mobile and portable devices. In a processor unit, an adder is an important building block since it is used in Floating Point Units (FPU) and Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU). Also,…

Reinforcement learning (RL) workloads take a notoriously long time to train due to the large number of samples collected at run-time from simulators. Unfortunately, cluster scale-up approaches remain expensive, and commonly used CPU…

Computer science marches towards energy-aware practices. This trend impacts not only the design of computer architectures, but also the design of programs. However, developers still lack affordable and accurate technology to measure energy…

Growing deployment of power and energy efficient throughput accelerators (GPU) in data centers demands enhancement of power-performance co-optimization capabilities of GPUs. Realization of exascale computing using accelerators requires…

Training high-quality deep models necessitates vast amounts of data, resulting in overwhelming computational and memory demands. Recently, data pruning, distillation, and coreset selection have been developed to streamline data volume by…

When executing a deep neural network (DNN), its model parameters are loaded into GPU memory before execution, incurring a significant GPU memory burden. There are studies that reduce GPU memory usage by exploiting CPU memory as a swap…

Due to increasing cache sizes and large leakage consumption of SRAM device, conventional SRAM caches contribute significantly to the processor power consumption. Recently researchers have used non-volatile memory devices to design caches,…

Graph Neural Network (GNN) on streaming graphs has gained increasing popularity. However, its practical deployment remains challenging, as the inference process relies on Runtime Embedding Computation (RTEC) to capture recent graph changes.…

Leveraging Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to accelerate scientific software has proven to be highly successful, but in order to extract more performance, GPU programmers must overcome the high latency costs associated with their use. One…

As recurrent neural networks become larger and deeper, training times for single networks are rising into weeks or even months. As such there is a significant incentive to improve the performance and scalability of these networks. While…

Given its high integration density, high speed, byte addressability, and low standby power, non-volatile or persistent memory is expected to supplement/replace DRAM as main memory. Through persistency programming models (which define…