Publications by Phillip B. Gibbons

@inproceedings{abc,
	abstract = {Many important applications trigger bulk bitwise operations, i.e., bitwise operations on large bit vectors. In fact, recent works design techniques that exploit fast bulk bitwise operations to accelerate databases (bitmap indices, BitWeaving) and web search (BitFunnel). Unfortunately, in existing architectures, the throughput of bulk bitwise operations is limited by the memory bandwidth available to the processing unit (e.g., CPU, GPU, FPGA, processing-in-memory).

To overcome this bottleneck, we propose Ambit, an Accelerator-in-Memory for bulk bitwise operations. Unlike prior works, Ambit exploits the analog operation of DRAM technology to perform bitwise operations completely inside DRAM, thereby exploiting the full internal DRAM bandwidth. Ambit consists of two components. First, simultaneous activation of three DRAM rows that share the same set of sense amplifiers enables the system to perform bitwise AND and OR operations. Second, with modest changes to the sense amplifier, the system can use the inverters present inside the sense amplifier to perform bitwise NOT operations. With these two components, Ambit can perform any bulk bitwise operation efficiently inside DRAM. Ambit largely exploits existing DRAM structure, and hence incurs low cost on top of commodity DRAM designs (1\% of DRAM chip area). Importantly, Ambit uses the modern DRAM interface without any changes, and therefore it can be directly plugged onto the memory bus.

Our extensive circuit simulations show that Ambit works as expected even in the presence of significant process variation. Averaged across seven bulk bitwise operations, Ambit improves performance by 32X and reduces energy consumption by 35X compared to state-of-the-art systems. When integrated with Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), a 3D-stacked DRAM with a logic layer, Ambit improves performance of bulk bitwise operations by 9.7X compared to processing in the logic layer of the HMC. Ambit improves the performance of three real-world data-intensive applications, 1) database bitmap indices, 2) BitWeaving, a technique to accelerate database scans, and 3) bit-vector-based implementation of sets, by 3X-7X compared to a state-of-the-art baseline using SIMD optimizations. We describe four other applications that can benefit from Ambit, including a recent technique proposed to speed up web search. We believe that large performance and energy improvements provided by Ambit can enable other applications to use bulk bitwise operations.},
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Donghyuk Lee and Thomas Mullins and Hasan Hassan and Amirali Boroumand and Jeremie Kim and Michael A. Kozuch and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture},
	title = {Ambit: in-memory accelerator for bulk bitwise operations using commodity DRAM technology},
	venue = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
	year = {2017}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Kevin Hsieh and Aaron Harlap and Nandita Vijaykumar and Dimitris Konomis and Gregory R. Ganger and Phillip B. Gibbons and Onur Mutlu},
	booktitle = {14th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2017, Boston, MA, USA},
	title = {Gaia: Geo-Distributed Machine Learning Approaching LAN Speeds.},
	url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/presentation/hsieh},
	year = {2017}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Nandita Vijaykumar and Kevin Hsieh and Gennady Pekhimenko and Samira Manabi Khan and Ashish Shrestha and Saugata Ghose and Adwait Jog and Phillip B. Gibbons and Onur Mutlu},
	booktitle = {49th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO 2016, Taipei, Taiwan},
	title = {Zorua: A holistic approach to resource virtualization in GPUs.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MICRO.2016.7783718},
	year = {2016}
}

@article{abc,
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Donghyuk Lee and Thomas Mullins and Hasan Hassan and Amirali Boroumand and Jeremie Kim and Michael A. Kozuch and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Todd C. Mowry},
	journal = {CoRR},
	title = {Buddy-RAM: Improving the Performance and Efficiency of Bulk Bitwise Operations Using DRAM.},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09988},
	year = {2016}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Thomas Mullins and Amirali Boroumand and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 48th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO 2015, Waikiki, HI, USA},
	title = {Gather-scatter DRAM: in-DRAM address translation to improve the spatial locality of non-unit strided accesses.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2830772.2830820},
	year = {2015}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Gennady Pekhimenko and Olatunji Ruwase and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry and Trishul M. Chilimbi},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, Portland, OR, USA},
	title = {Page overlays: an enhanced virtual memory framework to enable fine-grained memory management.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2749469.2750379},
	year = {2015}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Gennady Pekhimenko and Tyler Huberty and Rui Cai and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {21st IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, HPCA 2015, Burlingame, CA, USA},
	title = {Exploiting compressed block size as an indicator of future reuse.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2015.7056021},
	year = {2015}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Kevin Hsieh and Amirali Boroumand and Donghyuk Lee and Michael A. Kozuch and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {Computer Architecture Letters},
	title = {Fast Bulk Bitwise AND and OR in DRAM.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCA.2015.2434872},
	year = {2015}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Abhishek Bhowmick and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {ACM/IEEE 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture, ISCA 2014, Minneapolis, MN, USA},
	title = {The Dirty-Block Index.},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCA.2014.6853204},
	year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Samihan Yedkar and Hongyi Xin and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {TACO},
	title = {Mitigating Prefetcher-Caused Pollution Using Informed Caching Policies for Prefetched Blocks.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2677956},
	year = {2014}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Vivek Seshadri and Yoongu Kim and Chris Fallin and Donghyuk Lee and Rachata Ausavarungnirun and Gennady Pekhimenko and Yixin Luo and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {The 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-46, Davis, CA, USA},
	title = {RowClone: fast and energy-efficient in-DRAM bulk data copy and initialization.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2540708.2540725},
	year = {2013}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Gennady Pekhimenko and Vivek Seshadri and Yoongu Kim and Hongyi Xin and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {The 46th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO-46, Davis, CA, USA},
	title = {Linearly compressed pages: a low-complexity, low-latency main memory compression framework.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2540708.2540724},
	year = {2013}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Gennady Pekhimenko and Vivek Seshadri and Onur Mutlu and Phillip B. Gibbons and Michael A. Kozuch and Todd C. Mowry},
	booktitle = {International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques, PACT {\textquoteright}12, Minneapolis, MN},
	title = {Base-delta-immediate compression: practical data compression for on-chip caches.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2370816.2370870},
	year = {2012}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Suman Nath and Phillip B. Gibbons and Srinivasan Seshan and Zachary R. Anderson},
	booktitle = {TOSN},
	title = {Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1340771.1340773},
	year = {2008}
}

@inproceedings{abc,
	author = {Suman Nath and Phillip B. Gibbons and Srinivasan Seshan and Zachary R. Anderson},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2004, Baltimore, MD, USA},
	title = {Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks.},
	url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1031495.1031525},
	year = {2004}
}