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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 ...
Point clouds allow for the representation of 3D multimedia content as a set of disconnected points in space. Their inher- ent irregular geometric nature poses a challenge to efficient compression, a critical operation for both storage and trans- mission. T ...
The effective bandwidth of the FPGA external memory, usually DRAM, is extremely sensitive to the access pattern. Nonblocking caches that handle thousands of outstanding misses (miss-optimized memory systems) can dynamically improve bandwidth utilization wh ...
Accurate building electricity load forecasts play a major role in the energy transition, as they facilitate flexibility deployment, grid stability and overall reduce costs and CO2 emissions. This research leaverages forecasting and reconciliation of tempor ...
Numerical simulations have become an indispensable tool in astrophysics and cosmology. The constant need for higher accuracy, higher resolutions, and models ofever-increasing sophistication and complexity drives the development of modern toolswhich target ...
For efficient acceleration on FPGA, it is essential for external memory to match the throughput of the processing pipelines. However, the usable DRAM bandwidth decreases significantly if the access pattern causes frequent row conflicts. Memory controllers ...
Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems have become popular in the past decade. HTAP systems allow running transactional and analytical processing workloads on the same data and hardware. As a result, they suffer from workload interfe ...
Even if Dennard scaling came to an end fifteen years ago, Moore's law kept fueling an exponential growth in compute performance through increased parallelization. However, the performance of memory and, in particular, Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), ...
Micro-architectural behavior of traditional disk-based online transaction processing (OLTP) systems has been investigated extensively over the past couple of decades. Results show that traditional OLTP systems mostly under-utilize the available micro-archi ...
Modern asynchronous runtime systems allow the re-thinking of large-scale scientific applications. With the example of a simulator of morphologically detailed neural networks, we show how detaching from the commonly used bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) exec ...
