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DBFS: Dynamic Bitwidth-Frequency Scaling for Efficient Software-defined SIMD

Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Pengbo Yu

Machine learning algorithms such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are characterized by high robustness towards quantization, supporting small-bitwidth fixed-point arithmetic at inference time with little to no degradation in accuracy. In turn, small ...

IEEE2024

Post-Moore's Law Fusion: High-Bandwidth Memory, Accelerators, and Native Half-Precision Processing for CPU-Local Analytics

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca

Modern data management systems aim to provide both cutting-edge functionality and hardware efficiency. With the advent of AI-driven data processing and the post-Moore Law era, traditional memory-bound scale-up data management operations face scalability ch ...

2023

High Performance Computing for gravitational lens modeling: Single vs double precision on GPUs and CPUs

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Markus Rexroth, Christoph Ernst René Schäfer

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of cosmology and the dark matter distribution. Efficient lensing software is already a necessity to fully use its potential and the performance demands will only increase with the upcoming generation of tele ...

ELSEVIER2020

Methods for strong gravitational lens detection and analysis using machine learning and high performance computing

Christoph Ernst René Schäfer

The study of strong gravitational lenses is a relatively new scientific field in astronomy with many applications in cosmology. Its unique observables allow astronomers to trace dark matter, determine the expansion of the universe and study galaxy evolutio ...

EPFL2020

LTRF: Enabling High-Capacity Register Files for GPUs via Hardware/Software Cooperative Register Prefetching

Babak Falsafi, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) employ large register files to accommodate all active threads and accelerate context switching. Unfortunately, register files are a scalability bottleneck for future GPUs due to long access latency, high power consumption, ...

2018

High Performance Transaction Processing on Non-Uniform Hardware Topologies

Danica Porobic

Transaction processing is a mission critical enterprise application that runs on high-end servers. Traditionally, transaction processing systems have been designed for uniform core-to-core communication latencies. In the past decade, with the emergence of ...

EPFL2016

QMMMW: A wrapper for QM/MM simulations with QUANTUM ESPRESSO and LAMMPS

Changru Ma

We present QMMMW, a new program aimed at performing Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics. The package operates as a wrapper that patches PWscf code included in the QUANTUM ESPRESSO distribution and LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simu ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Energy-Aware Processing Platform Exploration for Embedded Biosignal Analysis

Ahmed Yasir Dogan

According to the World Health Organization, lifestyle-related diseases, e.g., cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of mortality worldwide. An accurate and continuous medical supervision is highly required for diagnosis and treatment of such diseases ...

EPFL2013

Scalable instruction set simulator for thousand-core architectures running on GPGPUs

David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Martino Ruggiero, Shivani Raghav

Simulators are still the primary tools for development and performance evaluation of applications running on massively parallel architectures. However, current virtual platforms are not able to tackle the complexity issues introduced by 1000-core future sc ...

IEEE Press2010

The role of the electric field in simulations of plasma microturbulence

Paolo Angelino

The ultimate goal of magnetic confinement fusion research is to develop an electricity producing power plant based on thermonuclear fusion reactions. Among the most promising magnetic confinement devices, as leading concepts for future power plants, are to ...

EPFL2006