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Ryan Braidwood

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs · 44% Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures · 44% Parallel and multicore computing · 13%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Reconfigurable computing and FPGAs
coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture
0.812024
Circular Reconfigurable Parallel Processor for Edge Computing : Industrial Product ✶ · ISCA 2024
Hardware accelerators and domain-specific architectures
edge accelerator
0.812024
Circular Reconfigurable Parallel Processor for Edge Computing : Industrial Product ✶ · ISCA 2024
Parallel and multicore computing › parallel architecture
parallel processor
0.212024
Circular Reconfigurable Parallel Processor for Edge Computing : Industrial Product ✶ · ISCA 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

software stack · 0.8gasket memory · 0.8circular network topology · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Circular Reconfigurable Parallel Processor for Edge Computing : Industrial Product ✶
abstract
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as the predominant hardware platforms for massively parallel computing. However, their inherent von-Neumann architecture still suffers performance inefficiency stemming from the sequential instruction execution and frequent data transfer overheads within the memory system. These intrinsic architectural flaws lead to heavy overhead on the latency, area, and energy efficiency, rendering GPUs suboptimal for edge computing applications. To tackle these challenges, this paper introduces a novel circular Reconfigurable Parallel Processor (RPP) to enable massively parallel applications in edge computing with high efficiency. RPP features a novel circular array of reconfigurable compute engines, enabling efficient streaming dataflow processing. In contrast to traditional Coarse Grained Reconfigurable Architecture (CGRA), the circular network topology of RPP is formed by linear switch networks with an innovative gasket memory, which reduces complicated network routing overheads while allowing versatile datapath mapping and optimized data reuse. A dedicated hierarchical memory system is proposed to support different memory access patterns and address mapping strategies, enabling flexible data access with high memory efficiency. Several hardware optimizations are further introduced to improve hardware utilization and performance such as concurrent kernel execution, register split&refill and heterogeneous scalar&vector computing. To fully utilize the hardware capability of RPP, we develop an end-to-end software stack consisting of a compiler, runtime environment, and different RPP libraries. This software stack is designed to be compatible with the GPGPU computing paradigm, enhancing its potential for broader adoption. Fabricated in a 14nm process, RPP occupies an area of 119 mm2and operates at a maximum power of 15W with a 1GHz clock frequency. From the runtime measurement of various workloads, RPP achieves up to 27.5 × higher energy efficiency than Nvidia edge GPUs in deep learning inference and up to 14062 × lower latency than AMD Ryzen 5 CPU in linear algebra operations.
Jianbin Zhu, Toshio Nagata, Ryan Braidwood, Haohuan Fu, Juepeng Zheng, Wayne Luk, Hongxiang Fan
ISCA6