Traditionally, evaluating the theoretical peak performance of a CPU in FLOPS (floating-point
operations per second) was merely a matter of multiplying the frequency by the number of …

Hardware accelerators based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) and system on chip
(SoC) devices have gained attention in recent years. One of the main reasons is that these …

Over a billion mobile consumer system-on-chip (SoC) chipsets ship each year. Of these, the
mobile consumer market undoubtedly involving smartphones has a significant market share …

This article is devoted to graphics processing unit (GPU) kernel optimization and
performance analysis of three tensor-product operations arising in finite element methods …

With the surge of big data applications and the worsening of the memory-wall problem, the
memory system, instead of the computing unit, becomes the commonly recognized major …

As quantum computers evolve, simulations of quantum programs on classical computers will
be essential in validating quantum algorithms, understanding the effect of system noise, and …

The design space exploration of scaled-out manycores for communication-intensive
applications (eg, graph analytics and sparse linear algebra) is hampered due to either lack …

Tuning large applications requires a clever exploration of the design and configuration
space. Especially on supercomputers, this space is so large that its exhaustive traversal via …

Large scale simulations are a key pillar of modern research and require ever-increasing
computational resources. Different novel manycore architectures have emerged in recent …

Data stream compression attracts much attention recently due to the rise of IoT applications.
Thanks to the balanced computational power and energy consumption, asymmetric …