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Modern computing platforms tend to deploy multiple GPUs (2, 4, or more) on a single node to boost system performance, with each GPU having a large capacity of global memory and streaming multiprocessors (SMs). GPUs are an expensive resource, and boosting utilization of GPUs without causing performance degradation of individual workloads is an important and […]

In this paper, we develop face.evoLVe – a comprehensive library that collects and implements a wide range of popular deep learning-based methods for face recognition. First of all, face.evoLVe is composed of key components that cover the full process of face analytics, including face alignment, data processing, various backbones, losses, and alternatives with bags of […]

To increase performance and efficiency, systems use FPGAs as reconfigurable accelerators. A key challenge in designing these systems is partitioning computation between processors and an FPGA. An appropriate division of labor may be difficult to predict in advance and require experiments and measurements. When an investigation requires rewriting part of the system in a new […]

Introduction: Decompilers are useful tools for software analysis and support in the absence of source code. They are available for many hardware architectures and programming languages. However, none of the existing decompilers support modern AMD GPU architectures such as AMD GCN and RDNA. Purpose: We aim at developing the first assembly decompiler tool for a […]

Machine Learning (ML) functions are becoming ubiquitous in latency- and privacy-sensitive IoT applications, prompting for a shift toward near-sensor processing at the extreme edge and the consequent increasing adoption of Parallel Ultra-Low Power (PULP) IoT processors. These compute- and memory-constrained parallel architectures need to run efficiently a wide range of algorithms, including key Non-Neural ML […]

Backward projection is one of the most time-consuming steps in method-based iterative reconstruction computed tomography. The 3D backprojection memory access pattern is potentially enough regular to exploit efficiently the computation power of acceleration boards based on GPU or FPGA. The highlevel tools like HLS or OpenCL ease consider such particular memory accesses during the design […]

The importance of security infrastructures for high-throughput networks has rapidly grown as a result of expanding internet traffic and increasingly high-bandwidth connections. Intrusion-detection systems (IDSs), such as SNORT, rely upon rule sets designed to alert system administrators of malicious packets. Methods for deep-packet inspection, which often depend upon regular-expression searches, can be accelerated on programmable-logic […]

The Bempp boundary element library is a well known library for the simulation of a range of electrostatic, acoustic and electromagnetic problems in homogeneous bounded and unbounded domains. It originally started as a traditional C++ library with a Python interface. Over the last two years we have completely redesigned Bempp as a native Python library, […]

Stencils are a common problem in the area of scientific computing. Exploitation of parallel computing is a central part when optimising for faster execution times of stencils running on large amounts of data. For this reason stencils are well suited to be run in a GPGPU setting. However, programming stencils to run on massively-parallel hardware […]

Neural network (NN) accelerators have been integrated into a wide-spectrum of computer systems to accommodate the rapidly growing demands for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. NN accelerators share the idea of providing native hardware support for operations on multidimensional tensor data. Therefore, NN accelerators are theoretically tensor processors that can improve system […]

The importance of open-source hardware has been increasing in recent years with the introduction of the RISC-V Open ISA. This has also accelerated the push for support of the open-source software stack from compiler tools to full-blown operating systems. Parallel computing with today’s Application Programming Interfaces such as OpenCL has proven to be effective at […]

Exascale, a new era of computing, is knocking at the door. Leaving behind the days of high frequency, singlecore processors, the new paradigm of multicore/manycore processors in complex heterogeneous systems dominates today’s HPC landscape. With the advent of accelerators and special-purpose processors alongside general processors, the role of high performance computing (HPC) runtime systems has […]