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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 ...

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Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard

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Virtual Memory (VM) is a critical programming abstraction that is widely used in various modern computing platforms. With the rise of datacenter computing and birth of planet-scale online services, the semantic and capacity requirements from memory have ev ...

EPFL2023

HPCache: memory-efficient OLAP through proportional caching revisited

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TiC-SAT: Tightly-coupled Systolic Accelerator for Transformers

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Transformer models have achieved impressive results in various AI scenarios, ranging from vision to natural language processing. However, their computational complexity and their vast number of parameters hinder their implementations on resource-constraine ...

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Imprecise Store Exceptions

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ACM2023

SecureCells: A Secure Compartmentalized Architecture

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Modern programs are monolithic, combining code of varied provenance without isolation, all the while running on network-connected devices. A vulnerability in any component may compromise code and data of all other components. Compartmentalization separates ...

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

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uKharon: A Membership Service for Microsecond Applications

Rachid Guerraoui, Javier Picorel Obando, Athanasios Xygkis, Antoine Murat

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USENIX Association2023

How to Achieve Large-Area Ultra-Fast Operation of MoS 2 Monolayer Flash Memories?

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

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

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 ...

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Streamline RimNet: Tools for Automatic Classification of Paramagnetic Rim Lesions in MRI of Multiple Sclerosis

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Zenodo2023

Micro BTB: A High Performance and Storage Efficient Last-Level Branch Target Buffer for Servers

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High-performance branch target buffers (BTBs) and the L1I cache are key to high-performance front-end. Modern branch predictors are highly accurate, but with an increase in code footprint in modern-day server workloads, BTB and L1I misses are still frequen ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

HPCache: Memory-Efficient OLAP Through Proportional Caching

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Analytical engines rely on in-memory caching to avoid disk accesses and provide timely responses by keeping the most frequently accessed data in memory. Purely frequency- & time-based caching decisions, however, are a proxy of the expected query execution ...

ACM2022

Request, Coalesce, Serve, and Forget: Miss-Optimized Memory Systems for Bandwidth-Bound Cache-Unfriendly Applications on FPGAs

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Applications such as large-scale sparse linear algebra and graph analytics are challenging to accelerate on FPGAs due to the short irregular memory accesses, resulting in low cache hit rates. Nonblocking caches reduce the bandwidth required by misses by re ...

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Boosting Efficiency of External Pipelines by Blurring Application Boundaries

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Anna Patricia Herlihy

Modern application development addresses increasingly specialized problems using domain-specific utilities, such as Optical Code Recognition and standalone statistical tools. The diversity of tooling, combined with the ever-growing volume of data, requires ...

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Reinforcement Learning-Based Joint Reliability and Performance Optimization for Hybrid-Cache Computing Servers

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Computing servers play a key role in the development and process of emerging compute-intensive applications in recent years. However, they need to operate efficiently from an energy perspective viewpoint, while maximizing the performance and lifetime of th ...

2022

Ultra-High-Throughput EMS NB-LDPC Decoder with Full-Parallel Node Processing

Hassan Harb

This paper presents an ultra-high-throughput decoder architecture for NB-LDPC codes based on the Hybrid Extended Min-Sum algorithm. We introduce a new processing block that updates a check node and its associated variable nodes in a fully pipelined way, th ...

SPRINGER2022

In-Memory Hardware and Architectural Extensions for Workloads Acceleration

William Andrew Simon

Utilization of edge devices has exploded in the last decade, with such use cases as wearable devices, autonomous driving, and smart homes. As their ubiquity grows, so do expectations of their capabilities. Simultaneously, their formfactor and use cases lim ...

EPFL2022

Method for reading and writing unreliable memories and a corresponding memory controller device and memory

Andreas Peter Burg, Reza Ghanaatian Jahromi

A method of accessing a memory space of a memory device with a decoder, the memory space having faults, including the steps of performing a memory access operation by an electronic device to a access a logical memory space of the memory device, and randomi ...

2022

Efficient Analytical Query Processing on CPU-GPU Hardware Platforms

Periklis Chrysogelos

Timely insights lead to business growth and scientific breakthroughs but require analytical engines that cope with the ever-increasing data processing needs. Analytical engines relied on rapid CPU improvements, yet the end of Dennard scaling stopped the fr ...

EPFL2022