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most citedRecLight: A Recurrent Neural Network Accelerator with Integrated Silicon Photonics

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18 papers

cs.AR2024

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…

cs.AR2024

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…

cs.AR2024

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…

cs.AR2023

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.…

cs.DC2023

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…

cs.ET2023

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…