Publications associées à Intel MIC

Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

EdgeAI-Aware Design of In-Memory Computing Architectures

Marco Antonio Rios

Driven by the demand for real-time processing and the need to minimize latency in AI algorithms, edge computing has experienced remarkable progress. Decision-making AI applications stand out for their heavy reliance on data-centric operations, predominantl ...

EPFL2024

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Andrei Ardelean

Vision systems built around conventional image sensors have to read, encode and transmit large quantities of pixel information, a majority of which is redundant. As a result, new computational imaging sensor architectures were developed to preprocess the r ...

EPFL2023

Building Chips Faster: Hardware-Compiler Co-Design for Accelerated RTL Simulation

Sahand Kashani

The demise of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling has resulted in diminishing performance gains for general-purpose processors, and so has prompted a surge in academic and commercial interest for hardware accelerators. Specialized hardware has already redefine ...

EPFL2023

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

Architecture Exploration and Optimization of Heterogeneous Many-Core Compute and Memory Architectures with Architectural Extensions

Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

The expeditious proliferation of Internet connectivity and the growing adoption of digital products have transformed various spheres of our everyday lives. This increased digitization of society has led to the emergence of new applications, which are deplo ...

EPFL2021

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

Genome Sequence Alignment - Design Space Exploration for Optimal Performance and Energy Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, José Manuel Herruzo Ruiz

Next generation workloads, such as genome sequencing, have an astounding impact in the healthcare sector. Sequence alignment, the first step in genome sequencing, has experienced recent breakthroughs, which resulted in next generation sequencing (NGS). As ...

2020

CoreNEURON : An Optimized Compute Engine for the NEURON Simulator

James Gonzalo King, Felix Schürmann, Michael Lee Hines, Fabien Jonathan Delalondre, Aleksandr Ovcharenko, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Jérémy Pierre Benoit Fouriaux

The NEURON simulator has been developed over the past three decades and is widely used by neuroscientists to model the electrical activity of neuronal networks. Large network simulation projects using NEURON have supercomputer allocations that individually ...

2019

GPU-Accelerated Finite Volume Particle Simulation of Free Jet Deviation by Multi-jet Rotating Pelton Runner

Siamak Alimirzazadeh

Numerical simulation of Pelton turbine hydrodynamics is helpful to identify the energy loss mechanisms in the runner and minimize their effect. However, it is a challenging task that involves handling the unsteady free surface flow and moving boundaries re ...

EPFL2019

RPCValet: NI-Driven Tail-Aware Balancing of µs-Scale RPCs

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Modern online services come with stringent quality requirements in terms of response time tail latency. Because of their decomposition into fine-grained communicating software layers, a single user request fans out into a plethora of short, μs-scale RPCs, ...

ACM2019

Gem5-X: A Gem5-Based System Level Simulation Framework to Optimize Many-Core Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, William Andrew Simon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

The rapid expansion of online-based services requires novel energy and performance efficient architectures to meet power and latency constraints. Fast architectural exploration has become a key enabler in the proposal of architectural innovation. In this p ...

IEEE2019

Benchmarking of Homojunction Strained-Si NW Tunnel FETs for Basic Analog Functions

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Cem Alper, Arnab Biswas, Florin Udrea

This paper reports a compact ambipolar model for homojunction strained-silicon (sSi) nanowire (NW) tunnel FETs (TFETs) capable of accurately describing both I-V and G-V characteristics in all regimes of operation, n- and p-ambipolarity, the superlinear ons ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Leveraging a Cluster-Booster Architecture for Brain-Scale Simulations

James Gonzalo King, Felix Schürmann, Michael Lee Hines, Pramod Shivaji Kumbhar, Aleksandr Ovcharenko

The European Dynamical Exascale Entry Platform (DEEP) is an example of a new type of heterogeneous supercomputing architecture that include both a standard multicore-based "Cluster" used to run less scalable parts of an application, and an Intel MIC-based ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

DRAF: A Low-Power DRAM-based Reconfigurable Acceleration Fabric

Christos Kozyrakis

FPGAs are a popular target for application-specific accelerators because they lead to a good balance between flexibility and energy efficiency. However, FPGA lookup tables introduce significant area and power overheads, making it difficult to use FPGA devi ...

Ieee2016

Trace-based manycore partitioning of stream-processing applications

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

Application performance on these processor array platforms is highly sensitive to how functionality is physically placed on the device, as this choice crucially determines communication latencies and congestion patterns of the on-chip inter-core communicat ...

2016

On the Performance of Delegation over Cache-Coherent Shared Memory

André Schiper, Thomas Ropars, Darko Petrovic

Delegation is a thread synchronization technique where access to shared data is performed through a dedicated server thread. When a client thread requires shared data access, it makes a request to a server and waits for a response. This paper studies deleg ...

2015

Execution Trace Graph Based Multi-criteria Partitioning of Stream Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Simone Casale Brunet, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

One of the problems proven to be NP-hard in the field of many-core architectures is the partitioning of stream programs. In order to maximize the execution parallelism and obtain the maximal data throughput for a streaming application it is essential to fi ...

2015

GPU Acceleration for Simulating Massively Parallel Many-Core Platforms

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Emerging massively parallel architectures such as a general-purpose processor plus many-core programmable accelerators are creating an increasing demand for novel methods to perform their architectural simulation. Most state-of-the-art simulation technolog ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015