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Lightator: An Optical Near-Sensor Accelerator with Compressive Acquisition Enabling Versatile Image Processing
Mehrdad Morsali, Brendan Reidy, Deniz Najafi +6
This paper proposes a high-performance and energy-efficient optical near-sensor accelerator for vision applications, called Lightator. Harnessing the promising efficiency offered b…
Silicon Photonic 2.5D Interposer Networks for Overcoming Communication Bottlenecks in Scale-out Machine Learning Hardware Accelerators
Febin Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast +1
Modern machine learning (ML) applications are becoming increasingly complex and monolithic (single chip) accelerator architectures cannot keep up with their energy efficiency and t…
Accelerating Neural Networks for Large Language Models and Graph Processing with Silicon Photonics
Salma Afifi, Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast +1
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, large language models (LLMs) and graph processing have emerged as transformative technologies for natural language pro…
COMET: A Cross-Layer Optimized Optical Phase Change Main Memory Architecture
Febin Sunny, Amin Shafiee, Benoit Charbonnier +2
Traditional DRAM-based main memory systems face several challenges with memory refresh overhead, high latency, and low throughput as the industry moves towards smaller DRAM cells.…
RISA: Round-Robin Intra-Rack Friendly Scheduling Algorithm for Disaggregated Datacenters
Rashadul Kabir, Ryan G. Kim, Mahdi Nikdast
Recent trends see a move away from a fixed-resource server-centric datacenter model to a more adaptable "disaggregated" datacenter model. These disaggregated datacenters can then d…
Integrated Photonic AI Accelerators under Hardware Security Attacks: Impacts and Countermeasures
Felipe Gohring de Magalhães, Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu
Integrated photonics based on silicon photonics platform is driving several application domains, from enabling ultra-fast chip-scale communication in high-performance computing sys…