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The increasing demand for computing power and the emergence of heterogeneous computing architectures have driven the exploration of innovative techniques to address current limitations in both the compute and memory subsystems. One such solution is the use ...

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HPCache: memory-efficient OLAP through proportional caching revisited

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Analytical engines rely on in-memory data caching to avoid storage accesses and provide timely responses by keeping the most frequently accessed data in memory. Purely frequency- and time-based caching decisions, however, are a proxy of the expected query ...

Springer2023

uKharon: A Membership Service for Microsecond Applications

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Modern data center fabrics open the possibility of microsecond distributed applications, such as data stores and message queues. A challenging aspect of their development is to ensure that, besides being fast in the common case, these applications react fa ...

USENIX Association2023

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Virtual Memory (VM) is a critical programming abstraction that is widely used in various modern computing platforms. With the rise of datacenter computing and birth of planet-scale online services, the semantic and capacity requirements from memory have ev ...

EPFL2023

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Transformer models have achieved impressive results in various AI scenarios, ranging from vision to natural language processing. However, their computational complexity and their vast number of parameters hinder their implementations on resource-constraine ...

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Context. A novel high-performance exact pair-counting toolkit called fast correlation function calculator (FCFC) is presented.Aims. With the rapid growth of modern cosmological datasets, the evaluation of correlation functions with observational and simula ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

HetCache: Synergising NVMe Storage and GPU acceleration for Memory-Efficient Analytics

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson

Accessing input data is a critical operation in data analytics: i) slow data access significantly degrades performance, and ii) storing everything in the fastest medium, i.e., memory, incurs high operational and hardware costs. Further, while GPUs offer in ...

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Caching and Neutrality

Aikaterini Argyraki, Pavlos Nikolopoulos, Muhammad Abdullah

We are used to defining network neutrality as absence of traffic differentiation, like policing or shaping. These mechanisms, however, are often not what determines end-users’ quality of experience (QoE). Most content today is accessed through edge caches, ...

ACM Association for Computing Machinery2023

Integrated Electronics for Deep Implants to Remotely Monitor Hemodynamics

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EPFL2023

Radiation Hardness of MALTA2, a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor for Tracking Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Piro

MALTA is a depleted monolithic active pixel sensor (DMAPS) developed in the Tower Semiconductor 180-nm CMOS imaging process. Monolithic CMOS sensors offer advantages over current hybrid imaging sensors in terms of both increased tracking performance due to ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

An Integrated Approach to Designing Robust Turbocompressors on Gas Bearings Through Surrogate Modeling and Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Soheyl Massoudi, Cyril Picard

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ASME Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2023

Request, Coalesce, Serve, and Forget: Miss-Optimized Memory Systems for Bandwidth-Bound Cache-Unfriendly Applications on FPGAs

Paolo Ienne, Mikhail Asiatici

Applications such as large-scale sparse linear algebra and graph analytics are challenging to accelerate on FPGAs due to the short irregular memory accesses, resulting in low cache hit rates. Nonblocking caches reduce the bandwidth required by misses by re ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

HPCache: Memory-Efficient OLAP Through Proportional Caching

Anastasia Ailamaki, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson, Periklis Chrysogelos

Analytical engines rely on in-memory caching to avoid disk accesses and provide timely responses by keeping the most frequently accessed data in memory. Purely frequency- & time-based caching decisions, however, are a proxy of the expected query execution ...

ACM2022

In-Memory Hardware and Architectural Extensions for Workloads Acceleration

William Andrew Simon

Utilization of edge devices has exploded in the last decade, with such use cases as wearable devices, autonomous driving, and smart homes. As their ubiquity grows, so do expectations of their capabilities. Simultaneously, their formfactor and use cases lim ...

EPFL2022

Columnar Storage Optimization and Caching for Data Lakes

Haoqiong Bian

As a unified data repository, data lake plays a vital role in enterprise data management and analysis. It composes the raw files into tables that are processed in-situ by various computation engines and applications. Therefore, the read performance of the ...

2022

Micro BTB: A High Performance and Storage Efficient Last-Level Branch Target Buffer for Servers

Vishal Gupta

High-performance branch target buffers (BTBs) and the L1I cache are key to high-performance front-end. Modern branch predictors are highly accurate, but with an increase in code footprint in modern-day server workloads, BTB and L1I misses are still frequen ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Reinforcement Learning-Based Joint Reliability and Performance Optimization for Hybrid-Cache Computing Servers

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

Computing servers play a key role in the development and process of emerging compute-intensive applications in recent years. However, they need to operate efficiently from an energy perspective viewpoint, while maximizing the performance and lifetime of th ...

2022

Beating the I/O Bottleneck: A Case for Log-Structured Virtual Disks

Vojtech Aschenbrenner

With the increasing dominance of SSDs for local storage, today's network mounted virtual disks can no longer offer competitive performance. We propose a Log-Structured Virtual Disk (LSVD) that couples log-structured approaches at both the cache and storage ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Cost-Based Decision Support System: A Dynamic Cost Estimation of Key Performance Indicators in Manufacturing

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

An attempt is made to translate five generic key performance indicators (KPIs) into a continuous real-time cost function in a batch order-based manufacturing environment. The challenge of controlling and optimizing resource utilization, production efficien ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Pixels: An Efficient Column Store for Cloud Data Lakes

Anastasia Ailamaki, Haoqiong Bian

To benefit from the cloud’s higher elasticity and price-efficiency, most modern data-lake engines support S3-like cloud object storage (COS) services as their optional or preferred underlying storage. Meanwhile, the widespread column stores, such as Parque ...

IEEE2022