Future Architecture and System Technology for Scalable Computing

For future scalable computing systems, we explore not only processor, memory and IO subsystem architectures but also system hardware and software together. Especially, we aim to prototype our cool concepts with various implementation technologies and demonstrate them with commercial systems although we evaluate them with simulators. We have aimed to impact the industry research and development with our proposals, and our proposals have been evaluated and/or adopted by big tech companies. Our recent research focuses on exploring cool memory and networking technologies such as Compute eXpress Link (CXL) based memory modules and various SmartNICs to make large-scale computer systems more efficient in terms of performance, energy consumption, and cost.

News

Aug 07, 2025 [Award] `Exploiting Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for Large Language Model Inference’ received 2024 Best Paper Award from IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)! Congratulations to Hyungyo, Gaohan, and Nachuan! We have received CAL Best Paper Award two years in a row šŸš€šŸš€
Aug 07, 2025 [Award] `Tandem Processor: Grappling with Emerging Operators in Neural Networks’ received 2025 IEEE Micro Top Picks - Honorable Mention!
May 23, 2025 [Award] `Unleashing the potential of pim: Accelerating large batched inference of transformer-based generative models’ received Best Paper Award from IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL)!
May 23, 2025 [Award] `Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator: performance characterization and guidelines’ received Best Paper Honorable Mention and Distinguished Artifact Award from ISPASS. Congratulations to Jaeyoung and Qirong!
Apr 10, 2024 [Fellowship] Congratulations to Jiaqi Lou and Yan Sun for receiving Wen-mei Hwu Award and Rambus Fellowship
Feb 26, 2024 [Award] Professor Nam Sung Kim won the Intel’s 2023 Outstanding Researcher Award.
Dec 17, 2023 [Honor] Professor Nam Sung Kim was elevated to National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow.
Nov 09, 2023 [Award] `Improving System Performance by Offloading Memory-Intensive Kernel Features to CXL Type-2 Device’ work received the best demo award at the SRC/DARPA JUMP 2.0 annual review meeting. Congratulations to Harry and Yan!
Oct 02, 2023 [Award] `Making sense of using a SmartNIC to reduce datacenter tax from SLO and TCO perspectives’ received a Best Paper Runner-up Award from IISWC. Congratulations to Jinghan, Jiaqi, Yan, and Jerry!
Jun 30, 2023 [Honor] `Drowsy Caches: Simple Techniques for Reducing Leakage Energy’ published at ISCA in 2002 is selected as one of ISCA@50 Retrospective papers.

Selected Publications