Publications associées à Socket (processeur)

Intermediate Address Space: virtual memory optimization of heterogeneous architectures for cache-resident workloads

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Luis Maria Costero Valero, Darong Huang, Qunyou Liu

The increasing demand for computing power and the emergence of heterogeneous computing architectures have driven the exploration of innovative techniques to address current limitations in both the compute and memory subsystems. One such solution is the use ...

2024

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

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

Fast Parallel Algorithms for Enumeration of Simple, Temporal, and Hop-constrained Cycles

Paolo Ienne, Kubilay Atasu, Jovan Blanusa

Cycles are one of the fundamental subgraph patterns and being able to enumerate them in graphs enables important applications in a wide variety of fields, including finance, biology, chemistry, and network science. However, to enable cycle enumeration in r ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Fast Parallel Algorithms for Enumeration of Simple, Temporal, and Hop-Constrained Cycles

Paolo Ienne, Kubilay Atasu, Jovan Blanusa

Finding cycles in directed graphs enables important applications in various domains such as finance, biology, chemistry, and network science. However, as the size of graph datasets continues to grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to discover cycles wit ...

arXiv2023

Compilation and Design Space Exploration of Dataflow Programs for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platforms

Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Today's continued increase in demand for processing power, despite the slowdown of Moore's law, has led to an increase in processor count, which has resulted in energy consumption and distribution problems. To address this, there is a growing trend toward ...

EPFL2023

Electrical-Level Attacks on CPUs, FPGAs, and GPUs: Survey and Implications in the Heterogeneous Era

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud

Given the need for efficient high-performance computing, computer architectures combining CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs are nowadays prevalent. However, each of these components suffers from electrical-level security risks. Moving to heterogeneous systems, with th ...

2022

FPGA-to-CPU Undervolting Attacks

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud

FPGAs are proving useful and attractive for many applications, thanks to their hardware reconfigurability, low power, and high-degree of parallelism. As a result, modern embedded systems are often based on systems-on-chip (SoCs), where CPUs and FPGAs share ...

IEEE2022

DFAulted: Analyzing and Exploiting CPU Software Faults Caused by FPGA-Driven Undervolting Attacks

Mirjana Stojilovic, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud, David Dervishi

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) combine hardware reconfigurability with a high degree of parallelism. Consequently, FPGAs offer performance gains and power savings for many applications. A recent trend has been to leverage the hardware versatility o ...

2022

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

NrOS: Effective Replication and Sharing in an Operating System

Sanidhya Kashyap, Ankit Bhardwaj

Writing a correct operating system kernel is notoriously hard. Kernel code requires manual memory management and type-unsafe code and must efficiently handle complex, asynchronous events. In addition, increasing CPU core counts further complicate kernel de ...

USENIX ASSOC2021

The NEBULA RPC-Optimized Architecture

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta, Mark Johnathon Sutherland, Dionysios Pnevmatikatos

Large-scale online services are commonly structured as a network of software tiers, which communicate over the datacenter network using RPCs. Ongoing trends towards software decomposition have led to the prevalence of tiers receiving and generating RPCs wi ...

2020

Using an antenna as a tool for studying microturbulence and zonal structures in tokamaks with a global gyrokinetic GPU-enabled particle-in-cell code

Noé Thomas Elie Ohana

In order to get a better understanding of the interaction of plasma microinstabilities and associated turbulence with specific modes, an antenna is implemented in the global gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code ORB5. It consists in applying an external ...

EPFL2020

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

Programming Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems by High-Level Dataflow Synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Endri Bezati, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Heterogeneous processing platforms combining in various architectures CPUs, GPUs, and programmable logic, are continuously evolving providing at each generation higher theoretical levels of computing performance. However, the challenge of how efficiently s ...

IEEE2020

Hardware-conscious Query Processing in GPU-accelerated Analytical Engines

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Panagiotis Sioulas

In order to improve their power efficiency and computational capacity, modern servers are adopting hardware accelerators, especially GPUs. Modern analytical DMBS engines have been highly optimized for multi-core multi-CPU query execution, but lack the nece ...

2019

Distributed Logless Atomic Durability with Persistent Memory

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta

Datacenter operators have started deploying Persistent Memory (PM), leveraging its combination of fast access and persistence for significant performance gains. A key challenge for PM-aware software is to maintain high performance while achieving atomic du ...

2019

R2P2: Making RPCs first-class datacenter citizens

Edouard Bugnion, Evangelos Marios Kogias, Adrien Ghosn, Georgios Prekas, Jonas Fietz

Remote Procedure Calls are widely used to connect datacenter applications with strict tail-latency service level objectives in the scale of µs. Existing solutions utilize streaming or datagram-based transport protocols for RPCs that impose overheads and li ...

USENIX ASSOC2019

Placement of Virtual Containers on NUMA systems: A Practical and Comprehensive Model

Baptiste Joseph Eustache Lepers

Our work addresses the problem of placement of threads, or virtual cores, onto physical cores in a multicore NUMA system. Different placements result in varying degrees of contention for shared resources, so choosing the right placement can have a large ef ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Rock You like a Hurricane: Taming Skew in Large Scale Analytics

Willy Zwaenepoel, Nicolas Schiper, Laurent Bindschaedler, Jasmina Malicevic, Ashvin Goel

Current cluster computing frameworks suffer from load imbalance and limited parallelism due to skewed data distributions, processing times, and machine speeds. We observe that the underlying cause for these issues in current systems is that they partition ...

2018