Emerging Technologies

Photonic computing

Solution: Uses light (photons) instead of electricity (electrons) to perform calculations and process information. It leverages the unique properties of light; such as its speed and parallelism; to achieve high-performance computing.

Year	Venue	Authors	Title	Tags	P	E	N
2021	Nature	Swinburne	11 TOPS photonic convolutional accelerator for optical neural networks	universal optical convolutional accelerator for vector processing
2025	arXiv	ASU	H3PIMAP: A Heterogeneity-Aware Multi-Objective DNN Mapping Framework on Electronic-Photonic Processing-in-Memory Architectures	Electronic-Photonic-PIM Accelerator; coresponding mapping framework and evaluation infrastructure

Computational Sprinting

Solution: Leverages chip's thermal budget to enable brief, massively parallel "sprints" on otherwise dark silicon, in order to dramatically accelerate transient workloads and improve application responsiveness.

Year	Venue	Authors	Title	Tags	P	E	N
2012	HPCA	UPenn	Computational Sprinting	phase-change materials based thermal design; gradual core activation; sprint activation and deactivation strategy	3	3	3
2018	EuroSys	OSU	Model-Driven Computational Sprinting	timeout-aware queue simulator; random decision forest based effective sprint rate calculation	3	4	2
2019	MICRO	DUKE	DynaSprint: Microarchitectural Sprints with Dynamic Utility and Thermal Management	phase predictor and classifier; cache sprinting architecture; sprint thermal tracker	4	4	2