相关论文: Towards integrating hardware Data Plane accelerati…

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications, an emerging class of AI accelerators, termed Inter-core Connected Neural Processing Units (NPU), has been adopted in both cloud and edge computing environments, like…

Graph Neural Network (GNN) inference is used in many real-world applications. Data sparsity in GNN inference, including sparsity in the input graph and the GNN model, offer opportunities to further speed up inference. Also, many pruning…

With the constant increase in demand for data connectivity, network service providers are faced with the task of reducing their capital and operational expenses while ensuring continual improvements to network performance. Although Network…

GPUs have been widely used to accelerate computations exhibiting simple patterns of parallelism - such as flat or two-level parallelism - and a degree of parallelism that can be statically determined based on the size of the input dataset.…

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has been adopted by many leading large models to reduce computational requirements. However, frequent inter-GPU communication in MoE expert parallelism (EP) becomes a performance challenge. We observe substantial…

The advent of dedicated Deep Learning (DL) accelerators and neuromorphic processors has brought on new opportunities for applying both Deep and Spiking Neural Network (SNN) algorithms to healthcare and biomedical applications at the edge.…

Network function virtualization (NFV) and content caching are two promising technologies that hold great potential for network operators and designers. This paper optimizes the deployment of NFV and content caching in 5G networks and…

Large language model (LLM) inference increasingly depends on multi-GPU execution, yet existing inference parallelization strategies require layer-wise inter-rank synchronization, making end-to-end performance sensitive to workload…

Neural Networks (NN) provide a solid and reliable way of executing different types of applications, ranging from speech recognition to medical diagnosis, speeding up onerous and long workloads. The challenges involved in their…

The data revolution is fueled by advances in machine learning, databases, and hardware design. Programmable accelerators are making their way into each of these areas independently. As such, there is a void of solutions that enables…

NAND flash-based Solid State Drives (SSDs), which are widely used from embedded systems to enterprise servers, are enhancing performance by exploiting the parallelism of NAND flash memories. To cope with the performance improvement of SSDs,…

Applying deep neural networks (DNNs) in mobile and safety-critical systems, such as autonomous vehicles, demands a reliable and efficient execution on hardware. Optimized dedicated hardware accelerators are being developed to achieve this.…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the state of the art systems for image classification and scene understating. However, such techniques are computationally intensive and involve highly regular parallel computation. CNNs can…

The success of DNNs and their high computational requirements pushed for large codesign efforts aiming at DNN acceleration. Since DNNs can be represented as static computational graphs, static memory allocation and tiling are two crucial…

FPGA accelerators on the NIC enable the offloading of expensive packet processing tasks from the CPU. However, FPGAs have limited resources that may need to be shared among diverse applications, and programming them is difficult. We present…

In view of the large amount of calculation and long calculation time of convolutional neural network (CNN), this paper proposes a convolutional neural network hardware accelerator based on field programmable logic gate array (FPGA). First,…

Data movement is one of the main challenges of contemporary system architectures. Near-Data Processing (NDP) mitigates this issue by moving computation closer to the memory, avoiding excessive data movement. Our proposal, Vector-In-Memory…

Hardware accelerators, such as those based on GPUs and FPGAs, offer an excellent opportunity to efficiently parallelize functionalities. Recently, modern embedded platforms started being equipped with such accelerators, resulting in a…

Network virtualization is a way to simultaneously run multiple heterogeneous architectures on a shared substrate. The main issue in network virtualization is mapping virtual networks to substrate network. How to manage substrate resources…

Mixture-of-Experts is a promising approach for edge AI with low-batch inference. Yet, on-device deployments often face limited on-chip memory and severe workload imbalance; the prevalent use of offloading further incurs off-chip memory…