4 papers
Application-Driven Architecture Exploration for Cross-Layer Heterogeneous Systems
Yuchen Fan, Minghong Sun, Jikui Ma +19
AI and HPC infrastructure increasingly serves workload portfolios that combine dense tensor computation, sparse kernels, large memory footprints, and communication-intensive collec…
Accelerating Recommender Model ETL with a Streaming FPGA-GPU Dataflow
Yu Zhu, Wenqi Jiang, Piyumi Jasin Pathiranage +2
The real-time performance of recommender models depends on the continuous integration of massive volumes of new user interaction data into training pipelines. While GPUs have scale…
An RDMA-First Object Storage System with SmartNIC Offload
Yu Zhu, Aditya Dhakal, Pedro Bruel +4
AI training and inference impose sustained, fine-grain I/O that stresses host-mediated, TCP-based storage paths. Motivated by kernel-bypass networking and user-space storage stacks…
RoCE BALBOA: Service-enhanced Data Center RDMA for SmartNICs
Maximilian Jakob Heer, Benjamin Ramhorst, Yu Zhu +4
Data-intensive applications in data centers, especially machine learning (ML), have made the network a bottleneck, which in turn has motivated the development of more efficient net…