Publications related to On the Performance of Software Transactional Memory

Highly Parallel RTL Simulation

Verification and testing of hardware heavily relies on cycle-accurate simulation of RTL. As single-processor performance is growing only slowly, conventional, single-threaded RTL simulation is becoming impractical for increasingly complex chip designs and ...

EPFL2024

Accelerator-driven Data Arrangement to Minimize Transformers Run-time on Multi-core Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alireza Amirshahi

The increasing complexity of transformer models in artificial intelligence expands their computational costs, memory usage, and energy consumption. Hardware acceleration tackles the ensuing challenges by designing processors and accelerators tailored for t ...

2024

Oligolithic Cross-task Optimizations across Isolated Workloads

Anastasia Ailamaki, Panagiotis Sioulas, Eleni Zapridou

Enterprises collect data in large volumes and leverage them to drive numerous concurrent decisions and business processes. Their teams deploy multiple applications that often operate concurrently on the same data and infrastructure but have widely differen ...

2024

Imaging sensor device using an array of single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean

The invention relates to an Imaging sensor device in a stacked arrangement comprising: - a pixel array tier comprising a plurality of pixel segments each having a plurality of pixels for photon detection each providing a digital pixel output; - a processin ...

2024

X-Attack 2.0: The Risk of Power Wasters and Satisfiability Don’t-Care Hardware Trojans to Shared Cloud FPGAs

Mirjana Stojilovic, Wei Hu, Dina Gamaleldin Ahmed Shawky Mahmoud, Beatrice Shokry Samir Shokry

Cloud computing environments increasingly provision field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for their programmability and hardware-level parallelism. While FPGAs are typically used by one tenant at a time, multitenant schemes supporting spatial sharing of c ...

2024

Secure Interface Design Leveraging Hardware/Software Support

Atri Bhattacharyya

Computer systems rely heavily on abstraction to manage the exponential growth of complexity across hardware and software. Due to practical considerations of compatibility between components of these complex systems across generations, developers have favou ...

EPFL2024

Swift : a modern highly parallel gravity and smoothed particle hydrodynamics solver for astrophysical and cosmological applications

Yves Revaz, Matthieu Schaller, Loïc Hausammann, Mladen Ivkovic, Zhen Xiang

Numerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art numerical methods and ...

2024

Is the powersave governor really saving power?

David Atienza Alonso, Luis Maria Costero Valero, Darong Huang

A frequency scaling governor is critical for the performance management of cloud servers, as it enhances energy efficiency and helps to control operational temperatures, thereby ensuring system reliability. However, our in-depth analysis of the application ...

2024

CloudProphet: A Machine Learning-Based Performance Prediction for Public Clouds

David Atienza Alonso, Ali Pahlevan, Marina Zapater Sancho, Luis Maria Costero Valero, Darong Huang

Computing servers have played a key role in developing and processing emerging compute-intensive applications in recent years. Consolidating multiple virtual machines (VMs) inside one server to run various applications introduces severe competence for limi ...

2024

Degrees of Separation: A Flexible Type System for Safe Concurrency

Martin Odersky, Aleksander Slawomir Boruch-Gruszecki, Yichen Xu

Data races have long been a notorious problem in concurrent programming. They are subtle to detect, and lead to non-deterministic behaviours. There has been a lot of interest in type systems that statically guarantee data race freedom. Significant progress ...

2024

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

Compilation and Design Space Exploration of Dataflow Programs for Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platforms

Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Today's continued increase in demand for processing power, despite the slowdown of Moore's law, has led to an increase in processor count, which has resulted in energy consumption and distribution problems. To address this, there is a growing trend toward ...

EPFL2023

Exploring brain-inspired multi-core heterogeneous hardware templates for low-power biomedical embedded systems

Benoît Walter Denkinger

The miniaturization of integrated circuits (ICs) and their higher performance and energy efficiency, combined with new machine learning algorithms and applications, have paved the way to intelligent, interconnected edge devices. In the medical domain, they ...

EPFL2023

Fast Parallel Algorithms for Enumeration of Simple, Temporal, and Hop-constrained Cycles

Paolo Ienne, Kubilay Atasu, Jovan Blanusa

Cycles are one of the fundamental subgraph patterns and being able to enumerate them in graphs enables important applications in a wide variety of fields, including finance, biology, chemistry, and network science. However, to enable cycle enumeration in r ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Cooperative Concurrency Control for Write-Intensive Key-Value Workloads

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Key-Value Stores (KVS) are foundational infrastructure components for online services. Due to their latency-critical nature, today’s best-performing KVS contain a plethora of full-stack optimizations commonly targeting read-mostly, popularity-skewed worklo ...

ACM2023

Bit-Line Computing for CNN Accelerators Co-Design in Edge AI Inference

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Flavio Ponzina, Marco Antonio Rios

By supporting the access of multiple memory words at the same time, Bit-line Computing (BC) architectures allow the parallel execution of bit-wise operations in-memory. At the array periphery, arithmetic operations are then derived with little additional o ...

2023

Chaosity: Understanding Contemporary NUMA-architectures

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson, Andreea Nica

Modern hardware is increasingly complex, requiring increasing effort to understand in order to carefully engineer systems for optimal performance and effective utilization. Moreover, established design principles and assumptions are not portable to modern ...

2023

Fast Parallel Algorithms for Enumeration of Simple, Temporal, and Hop-Constrained Cycles

Paolo Ienne, Kubilay Atasu, Jovan Blanusa

Finding cycles in directed graphs enables important applications in various domains such as finance, biology, chemistry, and network science. However, as the size of graph datasets continues to grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to discover cycles wit ...

arXiv2023

Acceleration of Control Intensive Applications on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays for Embedded Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Benoît Walter Denkinger, Miguel Peon Quiros

Embedded systems confront two opposite goals: low-power operation and high performance. The current trend to reach these goals is toward heterogeneous platforms, including multi-core architectures with heterogeneous cores and hardware accelerators. The lat ...

2023

Instruction-Level Power Side-Channel Leakage Evaluation of Soft-Core CPUs on Shared FPGAs

Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Mathias Josef Payer, Shashwat Shrivastava, Jinwei Yao, Nour Ardo

Side-channel disassembly attacks recover CPU instructions from power or electromagnetic side-channel traces measured during code execution. These attacks typically rely on physical access, proximity to the victim device, and high sampling rate measuring in ...

2023