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Drawing from a fieldwork conducted at COMPUTEX Taipei, one of the largest computer expo in the world, this contribution proposes to zoom-in at the level of Graphical Processing Units (GPU) manufacturers and their interactions with computer hardware hobbyis ...

2023

Imprecise Store Exceptions

Babak Falsafi, Mathias Josef Payer, Yuanlong Li, Siddharth Gupta, Yunho Oh, Qingxuan Kang, Abhishek Bhattacharjee

Precise exceptions are a cornerstone of modern computing as they provide the abstraction of sequential instruction execution to programmers while accommodating microarchitectural optimizations. However, increasing compute capabilities in deep memory hierar ...

ACM2023

Artificial Neural Network Training on an Optical Processor via Direct Feedback Alignment

Florent Gérard Krzakala, Julien Marcel Daniel Emmanuel Launay

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are habitually trained via the back-propagation (BP) algorithm. This approach has been extremely successful: Current models like GPT-3 have O(10 11 ) parameters, are trained on O(10 11 ) words and produce awe-inspiring resu ...

IEEE2023

Wild Patterns Reloaded: A Survey of Machine Learning Security against Training Data Poisoning

Kathrin Grosse, Sebastiano Vascon

The success of machine learning is fueled by the increasing availability of computing power and large training datasets. The training data is used to learn new models or update existing ones, assuming that it is sufficiently representative of the data that ...

2023

Maximum Radiation Efficiency of an Implantable Antenna: The Role of High-Order Modes

Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao, Jakub Liska

A combination of two numerical techniques of computational electromagnetics, namely, method of moments and vector spherical wave expansion, is used to show performance limitations on the radiation efficiency of implantable antennas and to efficiently resol ...

IEEE2023

Limiting Lamport Exposure to Distant Failures in Globally-Managed Distributed Systems

Bryan Alexander Ford, Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes, Pierluca Borsò, Kelong Cong, Georgia Fragkouli, Enis Ceyhun Alp, Cristina Basescu, Gaylor Bosson

Globalized computing infrastructures offer the convenience and elasticity of globally managed objects and services, but lack the resilience to distant failures that localized infrastructures such as private clouds provide. Providing both global management ...

2022

The Universal Gossip Fighter

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Anastasiia Kucherenko, Rafaël Benjamin Pinot

The notion of adversary is a staple of distributed computing. An adversary typically models “hostile” assumptions about the underlying distributed environment, e.g., a network that can drop messages, an operating system that can delay processes or an attac ...

2022

A review of CUDA optimization techniques and tools for structured grid computing

Recent advances in GPUs opened a new opportunity in harnessing their computing power for general purpose computing. CUDA, an extension to C programming, is developed for programming NVIDIA GPUs. However, efficiently programming GPUs using CUDA is very tedi ...

2020

Distributed Computing with Modern Shared Memory

Mihail Igor Zablotchi

In this thesis, we revisit classic problems in shared-memory distributed computing through the lenses of (1) emerging hardware technologies and (2) changing requirements. Our contributions consist, on the one hand, in providing a better understanding of th ...

EPFL2020

BLADE: A BitLine Accelerator for Devices on the Edge

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, William Andrew Simon, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi

The increasing ubiquity of edge devices in the consumer market, along with their ever more computationally expensive workloads, necessitate corresponding increases in computing power to support such workloads. In-memory computing is attractive in edge devi ...

2019

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