Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core

J Feldmann, N Youngblood, M Karpov, H Gehring, X Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
With the proliferation of ultrahigh-speed mobile networks and internet-connected devices,
along with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the world is generating exponentially …

{LegoOS}: A disseminated, distributed {OS} for hardware resource disaggregation

Y Shan, Y Huang, Y Chen, Y Zhang - 13th USENIX Symposium on …, 2018 - usenix.org
The monolithic server model where a server is the unit of deployment, operation, and failure
is meeting its limits in the face of several recent hardware and application trends. To improve …

Photonic multiply-accumulate operations for neural networks

MA Nahmias, TF De Lima, AN Tait… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has long been known that photonic communication can alleviate the data movement
bottlenecks that plague conventional microelectronic processors. More recently, there has …

Profiling hyperscale big data processing

A Gonzalez, A Kolli, S Khan, S Liu, V Dadu… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Computing demand continues to grow exponentially, largely driven by" big data" processing
on hyperscale data stores. At the same time, the slowdown in Moore's law is leading the …

Photonic neural networks and optics-informed deep learning fundamentals

A Tsakyridis, M Moralis-Pegios, G Giamougiannis… - APL Photonics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The recent explosive compute growth, mainly fueled by the boost of artificial intelligence (AI)
and deep neural networks (DNNs), is currently instigating the demand for a novel computing …

A case study of {Processing-in-Memory} in {off-the-Shelf} systems

J Nider, C Mustard, A Zoltan, J Ramsden, L Liu… - 2021 USENIX Annual …, 2021 - usenix.org
We evaluate a new processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture from UPMEM that was built
and deployed in an off-the-shelf server. Systems designed to perform computing in or near …

Jumpgate:{In-Network} Processing as a Service for Data Analytics

C Mustard, F Ruffy, A Gakhokidze… - 11th USENIX Workshop …, 2019 - usenix.org
In-network processing, where data is processed by special-purpose devices as it passes
over the network, is showing great promise at improving application performance, in …

Aquoman: An analytic-query offloading machine

S Xu, T Bourgeat, T Huang, H Kim… - 2020 53rd Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Analytic workloads on terabyte data-sets are often run in the cloud, where application and
storage servers are separate and connected via network. In order to saturate the storage …

Accelerating database analytic query workloads using an associative processor

H Caminal, Y Chronis, T Wu, JM Patel… - Proceedings of the 49th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Database analytic query workloads are heavy consumers of data-center cycles, and there is
constant demand to improve their performance. Associative processors (AP) have re …

Accelerating raw data analysis with the accorda software and hardware architecture

Y Fang, C Zou, AA Chien - Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2019 - dl.acm.org
The data science revolution and growing popularity of data lakes make efficient processing
of raw data increasingly important. To address this, we propose the ACCelerated Operators …