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

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

A lightweight learning-based decoding algorithm for intraneural vagus nerve activity classification in pigs

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Micro-architectural analysis of in-memory OLTP: Revisited

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Database workloads have significantly evolved in the past twenty years. Traditional database systems that are mainly used to serve Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) workloads evolved into specialized database systems that are optimized for particular ...

EPFL2021

Multiple Line Outage Detection in Power Systems by Sparse Recovery Using Transient Data

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Speculative Dataflow Circuits

Paolo Ienne, Lana Josipovic, Andrea Guerrieri

With FPGAs facing broader application domains, the conversion of imperative languages into dataflow circuits has been recently revamped as a way to overcome the conservatism of statically scheduled high-level synthesis. Apart from the ability to extract pa ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

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Database systems access memory either sequentially or randomly. Contrary to sequential access and despite the extensive efforts of computer architects, compiler writers, and system builders, random access to data larger than the processor cache has been s ...

EPFL2019

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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 ...

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We investigate the benefits of known partial support for the recovery of joint-sparse signals and demonstrate that it is advantageous in terms of recovery performance for both rank-blind and rank-aware algorithms. We suggest extensions of several joint-spa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Fast Energy Estimation Through Partial Execution of HPC Applications

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In order to optimize the energy use of servers in Data Centers, techniques such as power capping or power budgeting are usually deployed. These techniques rely on the prediction of the power and execution time of applications. These data are obtained via d ...

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Index joins present a case of pointer-chasing code that causes data cache misses. In principle, we can hide these cache misses by overlapping them with computation: The lookups involved in an index join are parallel tasks whose execution can be interleaved ...

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Integrating Heuristic and Machine-Learning Methods for Efficient Virtual Machine Allocation in Data Centers

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3D Bpconvnet To Reconstruct Parallel Mri

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Caching the results of intermediate query results for future re-use is a common technique for improving the performance of analytics over raw data sources. An important design choice in this regard is whether to lazily cache only the offsets of satisfying ...

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Automated Synthesis of Adversarial Workloads for Network Functions

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ACM2018

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EPFL2018

The Mondrian Data Engine

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The increasing demand for extracting value out of ever-growing data poses an ongoing challenge to system designers, a task only made trickier by the end of Dennard scaling. As the performance density of traditional CPU-centric architectures stagnates, adva ...

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An Adaptive Sublinear-Time Block Sparse Fourier Transform

Mikhail Kapralov, Volkan Cevher, Jonathan Mark Scarlett, Amir Zandieh

The problem of approximately computing the

k

dominant Fourier coefficients of a vector

X

quickly, and using few samples in time domain, is known as the Sparse Fourier Transform (sparse FFT) problem. A long line of work on the sparse FFT has resulted in ...

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