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

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USENIX Association2023

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

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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 ...

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Scalable Fine-Grained Parallel Cycle Enumeration Algorithms

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How Many CPU Cores is an FPGA Worth? Lessons Learned from Accelerating String Sorting on a CPU-FPGA System

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Large-Scale Graph Processing on FPGAs with Caches for Thousands of Simultaneous Misses

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Efficient large-scale graph processing is crucial to many disciplines. Yet, while graph algorithms naturally expose massive parallelism opportunities, their performance is limited by the memory system because of irregular memory accesses. State-of-the-art ...

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Computer systems designers are building cache hierarchies with higher capacity to capture the ever-increasing working sets of modern workloads. Cache hierarchies with higher capacity improve system performance but shift the performance bottleneck to addres ...

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USENIX ASSOC2021

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Miss-Optimized Memory Systems: Turning Thousands of Outstanding Misses into Reuse Opportunities

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EPFL2021

FPGAs in the Datacenters: the Case of Parallel Hybrid Super Scalar String Sample Sort

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String sorting is an important part of database and MapReduce applications; however, it has not been studied as extensively as sorting of fixed-length keys. Handling variable-length keys in hardware is challenging and it is no surprise that no string sorte ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

The NEBULA RPC-Optimized Architecture

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Siddharth Gupta, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

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