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Conventional programming languages nowadays still rely on sequential Models of Computation (MoC). However, the hardware makes more and more use of parallelism to increase the performance, e.g. an increasing number of cores. Nevertheless, programming languages, that still rely on sequential MoCs are not well suited to completely utilise this hardware. Dataflow programming languages like RVC-CAL […]

Nowadays, a hash function is used for password management. The hash function is desired to possess the following three characteristics: Pre-Image Resistance, Second Pre-Image Resistance, and Collision Resistance. They are set on the assumption that it is computationally difficult to find the original message from a given hash value. However, the security level of the […]

GPUs are widely used to accelerate deep learning with NNs (NNs). On the other hand, since GPU memory capacity is limited, it is difficult to implement efficient programs that compute large NNs on GPU. To compute NNs exceeding GPU memory capacity, data-swapping method and recomputing method have been proposed in existing work. However, in these […]

This paper details an extensible OpenCL framework that allows Stan to utilize heterogeneous compute devices. It includes GPU-optimized routines for the Cholesky decomposition, its derivative, other matrix algebra primitives and some commonly used likelihoods, with more additions planned for the near future. Stan users can now benefit from speedups offered by GPUs with little effort […]

The Intel Xeon Phi manycore processor is designed to provide high performance matrix computations of the type often performed in data analysis. Common data analysis environments include Matlab, GNU Octave, Julia, Python, and R. Achieving optimal performance of matrix operations within data analysis environments requires tuning the Xeon Phi OpenMP settings, process pinning, and memory […]

Prediction of material properties from first principles is often a computationally expensive task. Recently, artificial neural networks and other machine learning approaches have been successfully employed to obtain accurate models at a low computational cost by leveraging existing example data. Here, we present a software package "Properties from Artificial Neural Network Architectures" (PANNA) that provides […]

FPGAs offer a heterogenous compute solution to the continuous desire for increased performance by enabling the creation of applicationspecific hardware that accelerates computation. While the barrier to entry has historically been steep, advances in High Level Synthesis (HLS) are making FPGAs more accessible. Specifically, the Intel FPGA OpenCL SDK allows software designers to abstract away […]

The spatial anti-aliasing technique for line joins (intersections of the road segments) on vector maps is exclusively crucial to visual experience and system performance. Due to limitations of OpenGL API, one common practice to achieve the anti-aliased effect is splicing multiple triangles at varying scale levels to approximate the fan-shaped line joins. However, this approximation […]

There is an increasing industrial and academic interest towards a more predictable characterization of real-time tasks on high-performance heterogeneous embedded platforms, where a host system offloads parallel workloads to an integrated accelerator, such as General Purpose-Graphic Processing Units (GP-GPUs). In this paper, we analyze an important aspect that has not yet been considered in the […]

Modern deep learning applications urge to push the model inference taking place at the edge devices for multiple reasons such as achieving shorter latency, relieving the burden of the network connecting to the cloud, and protecting user privacy. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the most widely used model family in the applications. […]

The deep learning accelerator is one of the methods to accelerate deep learning network computations, which is mainly based on convolutional neural network acceleration. To address the fact that concurrent convolutional neural network accelerators are not solely open-source and the exclusiveness of platforms, FusionAccel, a scalable convolutional neural network accelerator hardware architecture with supporting software […]

We study the problem of semantic matching in product search, that is, given a customer query, retrieve all semantically related products from the catalog. Pure lexical matching via an inverted index falls short in this respect due to several factors: a) lack of understanding of hypernyms, synonyms, and antonyms, b) fragility to morphological variants (e.g. […]