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HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics

Anastasia Ailamaki, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson, Periklis Chrysogelos

Accessing input data is a critical operation in data analytics: i) slow data access significantly degrades performance, and ii) storing everything in the fastest medium, i.e., memory, incurs high operational and hardware costs. Further, while GPUs offer in ...

2023

Full System Exploration of On-Chip Wireless Communication on Many-Core Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Giovanni Ansaloni, Rafael Medina Morillas, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

In order to develop sustainable and more powerful information technology (IT) infrastructures, the challenges posed by the "memory wall" are critical for the design of high-performance and high-efficiency many-core computing systems. In this context, recen ...

IEEE2022

How Many CPU Cores is an FPGA Worth? Lessons Learned from Accelerating String Sorting on a CPU-FPGA System

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici, Damian Maiorano

String sorting is a fundamental kernel of string matching and database index construction; yet, it has not been studied as extensively as fixed-length keys sorting. Because processing variable-length keys in hardware is challenging, it is no surprise that ...

SPRINGER2021

A Shared-Memory Parallel Implementation of the RePlAce Global Cell Placer

Mirjana Stojilovic, Philip Brisk, Frédéric Gessler

RePlAce is a state-of-the-art prototype of a flat, analytic, and nonlinear global cell placement algorithm, which models a placement instance as an electrostatic system with positively charged objects. It can handle large-scale standard-cell and mixed-cell ...

IEEE2020

FPGAs in the Datacenters: the Case of Parallel Hybrid Super Scalar String Sample Sort

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici, Damian Maiorano

String sorting is an important part of database and MapReduce applications; however, it has not been studied as extensively as sorting of fixed-length keys. Handling variable-length keys in hardware is challenging and it is no surprise that no string sorte ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Survey of Precision-Scalable Multiply-Accumulate Units for Neural-Network Processing

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus

The current trend for deep learning has come with an enormous computational need for billions of Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) operations per inference. Fortunately, reduced precision has demonstrated large benefits with low impact on accuracy, paving the way ...

IEEE2019

Design of approximate and precision-scalable circuits for embedded multimedia and neural-network processing

Vincent Frédéric Camus

Density, speed and energy efficiency of integrated circuits have been increasing exponentially for the last four decades following Moore's law. However, power and reliability pose several challenges to the future of technology scaling. Approximate computin ...

EPFL2019

Efficient Workload Colocation in Modern Data Centers

Calin Iorgulescu

Despite the high costs of acquisition and maintenance of modern data centers, machine resource utilization is often low. Servers running online interactive services are over-provisioned to support peak load (which only occurs for a fraction of the time), d ...

EPFL2019

Gaussian Multiple Access via Compute-and-Forward

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Jingge Zhu

Lattice codes used under the compute-and-forward paradigm suggest an alternative strategy for the standard Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC): the receiver succes- sively decodes the integer linear combinations of the messages until it can invert and r ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Towards an algebraic network information theory: Simultaneous joint typicality decoding

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Sung Hoon Lim, Adriano Pastore, Chen Feng

Recent work has employed joint typicality encoding and decoding of nested linear code ensembles to generalize the compute-forward strategy to discrete memoryless multiple-access channels (MACs). An appealing feature of these nested linear code ensembles is ...

2017

Automatic Generation of Efficient Accelerators for Reconfigurable Hardware

Christos Kozyrakis, Yunqi Zhang

Acceleration in the form of customized datapaths offer large performance and energy improvements over general purpose processors. Reconfigurable fabrics such as FPGAs are gaining popularity for use in implementing application-specific accelerators, thereby ...

Ieee2016

Polar Codes for the m-User MAC

Emmanuel Abbé, Emre Telatar

In this paper, polar codes for the m-user multiple access channel (MAC) with binary inputs are constructed. It is shown that Arıkan’s polarization technique applied individually to each user transforms independent uses of a m-user binary input MAC into suc ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Polar Codes for the m-User Multiple Access Channel

Emre Telatar, Emmanuel Abbé

In this paper, polar codes for the m-user multiple access channel (MAC) with binary inputs are constructed. It is shown that Arikan's polarization technique applied individually to each user transforms independent uses of an m-user binary input MAC into su ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Thermal Characterization of Cloud Workloads on a Power-Efficient Server-on-Chip

Babak Falsafi, Pejman Lotfi Kamran, Dorde Jevdic, Andreas Panteli

We propose a power-efficient many-core server-on-chip system with 3D-stacked Wide I/O DRAM targeting cloud workloads in datacenters. The integration of 3D-stacked Wide I/O DRAM on top of a logic die increases available memory bandwidth by using dense and f ...

2012

Superparamagnetic iron oxide binding and uptake as imaged by magnetic resonance is mediated by the integrin receptor Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18): Implications on imaging of atherosclerotic plaques

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz

Introduction: Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have been successfully used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of atherosclerotic plaques. Endocytosis into monocytes/macrophages has been proposed as the mechanism for SPION uptake, but a ...

2007