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Object-oriented modelling of advanced computer cooling solutions

David Atienza Alonso

Modern computing systems are so energy- intensive to make efficient cooling vital for their operation. This is giving rise to a variety of innovative cooling solutions based on a mix of traditional and new techniques. The design and engineering of these so ...

Elsevier2023

Building Chips Faster: Hardware-Compiler Co-Design for Accelerated RTL Simulation

Sahand Kashani

The demise of Moore's Law and Dennard scaling has resulted in diminishing performance gains for general-purpose processors, and so has prompted a surge in academic and commercial interest for hardware accelerators. Specialized hardware has already redefine ...

EPFL2023

Compact Model for Continuous Microfluidic Mixer

Jean-Michel Sallese

While the development of lab-on-chip is increasing, the lack of dedicated computer-aided design tools appears as a bottleneck preventing the emergence of large-scale industrial applications. One of the answer relied on 50 years of CAD experience in microel ...

IEEE2020

Hardware-conscious Hash-Joins on GPUs

Anastasia Ailamaki, Raja Appuswamy, Manolis Karpathiotakis, Periklis Chrysogelos, Panagiotis Sioulas

Traditionally, analytical database engines have used task parallelism provided by modern multisocket multicore CPUs for scaling query execution. Over the past few years, GPUs have started gaining traction as accelerators for processing analytical queries d ...

IEEE2019

Teaching Practical DSP with Off-the-Shelf Hardware and Free Software

Paolo Prandoni, Eric Bezzam, Adrien Guillaume Olivier Hoffet

In this paper we describe our approach to teaching applied digital signal processing (DSP) using freely-available software and inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware components. The pedagogical framework is built around simple real-time audio processing algori ...

IEEE2019

Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores

Pinar Tözün

For several decades, online transaction processing (OLTP) has been one of the main server applications that drives innovations in the data management ecosystem, and in turn the database and computer architecture communities. Recent hardware trends oblige s ...

EPFL2014

Ultra-Low Power Multicore Architecture For Parallel Biomedical Signal Processing

David Atienza Alonso, Andreas Peter Burg, Jeremy Hugues-Felix Constantin, Ahmed Yasir Dogan

A multi-core architecture with ultra-low power consumption is needed for a wide variety of applications, especially in the bio-medical domain. In this patent, an ultra-low power multi-core architecture is presented: it is composed of one or more cores, sev ...

2014

Parallelization of the distinct lattice spring model

Jian Zhao, Liang Sun, Jiannong Fang, Gaofeng Zhao

The distinct lattice spring model (DLSM) is a newly developed numerical tool for modeling rock dynamics problems, i.e. dynamic failure and wave propagation. In this paper, parallelization of DLSM is presented. With the development of parallel computing tec ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

High-Speed Power System Transient Stability Simulation Using Highly Dedicated Hardware

Maher Kayal, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, François Krummenacher, Marc Pastre, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel

This paper presents a fully analog demonstrator based on power system emulation for high-speed power system stability analysis.Abenchmark using a fixed two-machine topology has been implemented. The characteristics of the emulated components (i.e., generat ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Toward Scalable Transaction Processing -- Evolution of Shore-MT

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Pinar Tözün

Designing scalable transaction processing systems on modern multicore hardware has been a challenge for almost a decade. The typical characteristics of transaction processing workloads lead to a high degree of unbounded communication on multicores for conv ...

VLDB Endowment2013

Scalability of write-ahead logging on multicore and multisocket hardware

Anastasia Ailamaki, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Radu Ioan Stoica, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis

The shift to multi-core and multi-socket hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommodate simultaneous requests, a multitude of synchronization ba ...

2012

Full System Simulation of Many-Core Heterogeneous SoCs using GPU and QEMU Semihosting

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

Modern system-on-chips are evolving towards complex and heterogeneous platforms with general-purpose processors coupled with massively parallel manycore accelerator fabrics (e.g. embedded GPUs). Platform developers are looking for efficient full-system sim ...

2012

GPGPU-Accelerated Parallel and Fast Simulation of Thousand-core Platforms

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

The multicore revolution and the ever-increasing complexity of computing systems is dramatically changing system design, analysis and programming of computing platforms. Future architectures will feature hundreds to thousands of simple processors and on-ch ...

IEEE/ACM Press2011

Shore-MT: A Scalable Storage Manager for the Multicore Era

Anastasia Ailamaki, Babak Falsafi, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis

Database storage managers have long been able to efficiently handle multiple concurrent requests. Until recently, however, a computer contained only a few single-core CPUs, and therefore only a few transactions could simultaneously access the storage manag ...

ACM2009

Dataflow/Actor-Oriented language for the design of complex signal processing systems

Marco Mattavelli, Christophe Lucarz, Ghislain Roquier

Signal processing algorithms become more and more complex and the algorithm architecture adaptation and design processes cannot any longer rely only on the intuition of the designers to build efficient systems. Specific tools and methods are needed to cope ...

2008

A multitasking and data-driven architecture for multi-agents simulations

Sébastien Schertenleib

The expansion of 3D real-time simulations (3DRTS) into millions of homes together with the technical progress of computers hardware force to approach software developments for 3DRTS from different perspectives. From an historical standpoint, 3DRTS started ...

EPFL2006