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

Yves Revaz, Yannick Michael Bahé, Loïc Hausammann, Mladen Ivkovic

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

33.3 MiBMI: A 192/512-Channel 2.46mm² Miniaturized Brain-Machine Interface Chipset Enabling 31-Class Brain-to-Text Conversion Through Distinctive Neural Codes

Mahsa Shoaran, Uisub Shin, Mohammad Ali Shaeri, Amitabh Yadav

Recently, cutting-edge brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have revealed the potential of decoders such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in predicting attempted handwriting [1] or speech [2], enabling rapid communication recovery after paralysis. However, c ...

IEEE2024

Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein

The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

Intermediate Address Space: virtual memory optimization of heterogeneous architectures for cache-resident workloads

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Darong Huang, Luis Maria Costero Valero, Qunyou Liu

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 ...

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

Unified Harmonic Power-Flow and Stability Analysis of Power Grids with Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources

Johanna Kristin Maria Becker

Modern power distribution systems are experiencing a large-scale integration of Converter-Interfaced Distributed Energy Resources (CIDERs). Their presence complicates the analysis and mitigation of harmonics, whose creation and propagation may be amplified ...

EPFL2024

Contemporary Logic Synthesis: with an Application to AQFP Circuit Optimization

Siang-Yun Lee

Electronic devices play an irreplaceable role in our lives. With the tightening time to market, exploding demand for computing power, and continuous desire for smaller, faster, less energy-consuming, and lower-cost chips, computer-aided design for electron ...

EPFL2024

Special Session: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Multi-Scale Computing Systems

David Atienza Alonso, Miguel Peon Quiros, Xavier Eric Ouvrard

Multi-Scale computing systems aim at bringing the computing as close as possible to the data sources, to optimize both computation and networking. These systems are composed of at least three computing layers: the terminal layer, the edge layer, and the cl ...

ACM2023

Imprecise Store Exceptions

Babak Falsafi, Mathias Josef Payer, Siddharth Gupta, Yunho Oh, Yuanlong Li, Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Qingxuan Kang

Precise exceptions are a cornerstone of modern computing as they provide the abstraction of sequential instruction execution to programmers while accommodating microarchitectural optimizations. However, increasing compute capabilities in deep memory hierar ...

ACM2023

Massively parallel nodal discontinous Galerkin finite element method simulator for room acoustics

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

We present a massively parallel and scalable nodal discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) solver for the time-domain linearized acoustic wave equations. The solver is implemented using the libParanumal finite element framework with extensions ...

Sage Publications Ltd2023

Training Efficient Controllers via Analytic Policy Gradient

Dario Floreano, Davide Scaramuzza, Valentin Wüest

Control design for robotic systems is complex and often requires solving an optimization to follow a trajectory accurately. Online optimization approaches like Model Predictive Control (MPC) have been shown to achieve great tracking performance, but requir ...

New York2023

Skadi: Building a Distributed Runtime for Data Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers

Sanidhya Kashyap

Data-intensive systems are the backbone of today's computing and are responsible for shaping data centers. Over the years, cloud providers have relied on three principles to maintain cost-effective data systems: use disaggregation to decouple scaling, use ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Reliable Microsecond-Scale Distributed Computing

Athanasios Xygkis

The landscape of computing is changing, thanks to the advent of modern networking equipment that allows machines to exchange information in as little as one microsecond. Such advancement has enabled microsecond-scale distributed computing, where entire dis ...

EPFL2023

Artificial Neural Network Training on an Optical Processor via Direct Feedback Alignment

Florent Gérard Krzakala

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are habitually trained via the back-propagation (BP) algorithm. This approach has been extremely successful: Current models like GPT-3 have O(10 11 ) parameters, are trained on O(10 11 ) words and produce awe-inspiring resu ...

IEEE2023

The effects of war on Ukrainian research

Gaétan Jean A de Rassenfosse, Wolf-Hendrik Peter Uhlbach

The ongoing war in Ukraine has profoundly impacted the Ukrainian scientific community. Numerous researchers have either emigrated or transitioned to alternate professions. For those who remain in research, the destruction of civil infrastructure and psycho ...

Springernature2023

2D Nanosystems: Applications of 2D Semiconductors for In-Memory Computing

Guilherme Migliato Marega

Machine learning and data processing algorithms have been thriving in finding ways of processing and classifying information by exploiting the hidden trends of large datasets. Although these emerging computational methods have become successful in today's ...

EPFL2023

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

Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard

Siddharth Gupta

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

Programmable Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Rui Ning Wang, Anat Siddharth, Andrey Voloshin, Viacheslav Snigirev, Andrea Bancora, Vladimir Shadymov

Silicon Nitride (Si3N4) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as core technology in a variety of applications ranging from LIDAR to quantum control and computing. However, the need for high-speed, low-voltage tuning and modulation has been a lon ...

IEEE2023

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