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Hardware advances strongly influence the database system design. The flattening speed of CPU cores makes many-core accelerators, such as GPUs, a vital alternative to explore for processing the ever-increasing amounts of data. GPUs have a significantly higher degree of parallelism than multi-core CPUs but their cores are simpler. As a result, they do not face […]

Using multiple streams can improve the overall system performance by mitigating the data transfer overhead on heterogeneous systems. Currently, very few cases have been streamed to demonstrate the streaming performance impact and a systematic investigation of streaming necessity and how-to over a large number of test cases remains a gap. In this paper, we use […]

Gibbs sampling is a widely used Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for numerically approximating integrals of interest in Bayesian statistics and other mathematical sciences. Many implementations of MCMC methods do not extend easily to parallel computing environments, as their inherently sequential nature incurs a large synchronization cost. In this paper, we show how to […]

This thesis presents SkePU 2, the next generation of the SkePU C++ framework for programming of heterogeneous parallel systems using the skeleton programming concept. SkePU 2 is presented after a thorough study of the state of parallel programming models, frameworks and tools, including other skeleton programming systems. The advancements in SkePU 2 include a modern […]

Discriminative model learning for image denoising has been recently attracting considerable attentions due to its favorable denoising performance. In this paper, we take one step forward by investigating the construction of feed-forward denoising convolutional neural networks (DnCNNs) to embrace the progress in very deep architecture, learning algorithm, and regularization method into image denoising. Specifically, residual […]

The efficient exploitation of the increasing computational capabilities of mobile devices is still a challenge. The heterogeneity of Systems on Chip (SoC) makes necessary a very specific knowledge of their hardware in order to harness their full potential. OpenCL is a well known standard for cross-platform usage of accelerator devices. We follow an annotation-based approach […]

There is interest in exploring hybrid OpenSHMEM + X programming models to extend the applicability of the OpenSHMEM interface to more hardware architectures. We present a hybrid OpenCL + OpenSHMEM programming model for device-level programming for architectures like the Adapteva Epiphany many-core RISC array processor. The Epiphany architecture comprises a 2D array of low-power RISC […]

This paper describes a convolutional neural network based deep learning approach for bird song classification that was used in an audio record-based bird identification challenge, called BirdCLEF 2016. The training and test set contained about 24k and 8.5k recordings, belonging to 999 bird species. The recorded waveforms were very diverse in terms of length and […]

High demand for computation resources severely hinders deployment of large-scale Deep Neural Networks (DNN) in resource constrained devices. In this work, we propose a Structured Sparsity Learning (SSL) method to regularize the structures (i.e., filters, channels, filter shapes, and layer depth) of DNNs. SSL can: (1) learn a compact structure from a bigger DNN to […]

Embedded devices and multimedia applications today generate unprecedented volumes of data which must be indexed and made searchable. As a result, similarity search has become a critical idiom for many modern data intensive applications in natural language processing (NLP), vision, and robotics. At its core, similarity search is implemented using k-nearest neighbors (kNN) where computation […]

Publication After a careful reviewing process by at least 2-3 experts, all accepted papers for the ICBBE 2016 will be published in: International Conference Proceedings Series by ACM, which will be archived in the ACM Digital Library, and indexed by Ei Compendex and Scopus and submitted to be reviewed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation […]

Prof. Wei Yu, The University of Auckland, New Zealand will be our keynote speaker. Publishing in the Volume of Journal (IPCBEE, ISSN: 2010-4618), indexed by Ei Geobase (Elsevier). Submission Methods Email: icecb@cbees.org http://www.icecb.org