AIBench: towards scalable and comprehensive datacenter AI benchmarking

W Gao, C Luo, L Wang, X Xiong, J Chen, T Hao… - … , and Optimizing: First …, 2019 - Springer
AI benchmarking provides yardsticks for benchmarking, measuring and evaluating
innovative AI algorithms, architecture, and systems. Coordinated by BenchCouncil, this …

HPC AI500: a benchmark suite for HPC AI systems

Z Jiang, W Gao, L Wang, X Xiong, Y Zhang… - … , and Optimizing: First …, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, with the trend of applying deep learning (DL) in high performance scientific
computing, the unique characteristics of emerging DL workloads in HPC raise great …

Xpander: Towards optimal-performance datacenters

A Valadarsky, G Shahaf, M Dinitz… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Despite extensive efforts to meet ever-growing demands, today's datacenters often exhibit
far-from-optimal performance in terms of network utilization, resiliency to failures, cost …

System-level characterization of datacenter applications

M Awasthi, T Suri, Z Guz, A Shayesteh… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, a number of benchmark suites have been created for the``Big Data''domain,
and a number of such applications fit the client-server paradigm. A large volume of recent …

A throughput-centric view of the performance of datacenter topologies

P Namyar, S Supittayapornpong, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
While prior work has explored many proposed datacenter designs, only two designs, Clos-
based and expander-based, are generally considered practical because they can scale …

Asic clouds: Specializing the datacenter for planet-scale applications

MB Taylor, L Vega, M Khazraee, I Magaki… - Communications of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Planet-scale applications are driving the exponential growth of the Cloud, and datacenter
specialization is the key enabler of this trend. GPU-and FPGA-based clouds have already …

Missing the forest for the trees: End-to-end ai application performance in edge data centers

D Richins, D Doshi, M Blackmore… - … Symposium on High …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are experiencing widespread adoption in the
industry, academia, and even public consciousness. This has been driven by the rapid …

Ai tax: The hidden cost of ai data center applications

D Richins, D Doshi, M Blackmore, AT Nair… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are experiencing widespread adoption in
industry and academia. This has been driven by rapid advances in the applications and …

Moonwalk: Nre optimization in asic clouds

M Khazraee, L Zhang, L Vega, MB Taylor - ACM SIGARCH Computer …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Cloud services are becoming increasingly globalized and data-center workloads are
expanding exponentially. GPU and FPGA-based clouds have illustrated improvements in …

Aquila: A unified, low-latency fabric for datacenter networks

D Gibson, H Hariharan, E Lance, M McLaren… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2022 - usenix.org
Datacenter workloads have evolved from the data intensive, loosely-coupled workloads of
the past decade to more tightly coupled ones, wherein ultra-low latency communication is …