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Kepler (microarchitecture)

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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

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

Mo(2)Cap(2): Real-time Mobile 3D Motion Capture with a Cap-mounted Fisheye Camera

Pascal Fua, Helge Jochen Rhodin

We propose the first real-time system for the egocentric estimation of 3D human body pose in a wide range of unconstrained everyday activities. This setting has a unique set of challenges, such as mobility of the hardware setup, and robustness to long capt ...

2019

A 30-frames/s, 252 x 144 SPAD Flash LiDAR With 1728 Dual-Clock 48.8-ps TDCs, and Pixel-Wise Integrated Histogramming

Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Chunmin Zhang, Scott Anthony Lindner, Juan Mata Pavia

A 252 x 144 single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel sensor, called Ocelot, is reported for light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The sensor, fabricated in the 180-nm CMOS technology, features 1728 12-bit time-to-digital converters (TDCs) with 48.8-ps res ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Exploiting Flow Graph of System of ODEs to Accelerate the Simulation of Biologically-Detailed Neural Networks

Felix Schürmann, Bruno Ricardo Da Cunha Magalhães

Exposing parallelism in scientific applications has become a core requirement for efficiently running on modern distributed multicore SIMD compute architectures. The granularity of parallelism that can be attained is a key determinant for the achievable ac ...

IEEE2019

Low-Power Design of Digital VLSI Circuits around the Point of First Failure

Andrea Bonetti

As an increase of intelligent and self-powered devices is forecasted for our future everyday life, the implementation of energy-autonomous devices that can wirelessly communicate data from sensors is crucial. Even though techniques such as voltage scaling ...

EPFL2019

HetExchange: Encapsulating heterogeneous CPU-GPU parallelism in JIT compiled engines

Anastasia Ailamaki, Raja Appuswamy, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Periklis Chrysogelos

Modern server hardware is increasingly heterogeneous as hardware accelerators, such as GPUs, are used together with multicore CPUs to meet the computational demands of modern data analytics workloads. Unfortunately, query parallelization techniques used by ...

2019

GPU-Accelerated Finite Volume Particle Simulation of Free Jet Deviation by Multi-jet Rotating Pelton Runner

Siamak Alimirzazadeh

Numerical simulation of Pelton turbine hydrodynamics is helpful to identify the energy loss mechanisms in the runner and minimize their effect. However, it is a challenging task that involves handling the unsteady free surface flow and moving boundaries re ...

EPFL2019

Rock You like a Hurricane: Taming Skew in Large Scale Analytics

Willy Zwaenepoel, Laurent Bindschaedler, Jasmina Malicevic

Current cluster computing frameworks suffer from load imbalance and limited parallelism due to skewed data distributions, processing times, and machine speeds. We observe that the underlying cause for these issues in current systems is that they partition ...

2018

A portable platform for accelerated PIC codes and its application to GPUs using OpenACC

Laurent Villard, Stephan Brunner, Emmanuel Lanti, Trach-Minh Tran, Claudio Gheller

We present a portable platform, called PIC_ENGINE, for accelerating Particle-In-Cell (PIC) codes on heterogeneous many-core architectures such as Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The aim of this development is efficient simulations on future exascale syste ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

DynOR: A 32-bit Microprocessor in 28 nm FD-SOI with Cycle-By-Cycle Dynamic Clock Adjustment

Andreas Peter Burg, Andrea Bonetti, Adam Shmuel Teman, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin, Thomas Christoph Müller, Lorenz Flavio Schmid

This paper presents DynOR, a 32-bit 6-stage OpenRISC microprocessor with dynamic clock adjustment. To alleviate the issue of unused dynamic timing margins, the clock period of the processor is adjusted on a cycle-by-cycle level, based on the instruction ty ...

Ieee2016

Scale-Out NUMA

Babak Falsafi, Edouard Bugnion, Boris Robert Grot, Alexandros Daglis, Stanko Novakovic

Emerging datacenter applications operate on vast datasets that are kept in DRAM to minimize latency. The large number of servers needed to accommodate this massive memory footprint requires frequent server-to-server communication in applications such as ke ...

2014

Task Scheduling for Highly Concurrent Analytical and Transactional Main-Memory Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Iraklis Psaroudakis

Task scheduling typically employs a worker thread per hardware context to process a dynamically changing set of tasks. It is an appealing solution to exploit modern multi-core processors, as it eases parallelization and avoids unnecessary context switches ...

2013

Particle Manifold Method (PMM) for Multiscale Continuous-Discontinuous Analysis

Liang Sun

It is important to consider the microstructure of a material when studying the macroscopic mechanical properties. Although special equipments have been used for micromechanics study through experimental tests, it is limited by instruments and reproducibili ...

EPFL2012

An Architecture-Independent Instruction Shuffler to Protect against Side-Channel Attacks

Paolo Ienne, Wayne Burleson, Ali Galip Bayrak, Nikola Velickovic

Embedded cryptographic systems, such as smart cards, require secure implementations that are robust to a variety of low-level attacks. Side-Channel Attacks (SCA) exploit the information such as power consumption, electromagnetic radiation and acoustic leak ...

2012

Practical Off-chip Meta-data for Temporal Memory Streaming

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman

Prior research demonstrates that temporal memory streaming and related address-correlating prefetchers improve performance of commercial server workloads though increased memory level parallelism. Unfortunately, these prefetchers require large on-chip meta ...

2009

Conservation laws for coding

Cyril Measson

This work deals with coding systems based on sparse graph codes. The key issue we address is the relationship between iterative (in particular belief propagation) and maximum a posteriori decoding. We show that between the two there is a fundamental connec ...

EPFL2006