Access more resources about UPMEM
We have gathered a selection of past and on-going works related to UPMEM’s technology, often involving renowned Universities with links to access to papers, videos and open source code when available. For clarity purposes sections are sorted by fields of interest:
- General overview and architecture
- General performances and micro-benchmarks
- Compiler / programming model
- Libraries
- Genomics & Bioinformatics
- Search
- Analytics & Database
- Machine Learning / Deep Learning
- Security
Last updated on November 2024
General overview and architecture
| Title | Status | Authors | Paper/resource | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PIM-AI: A Novel Architecture for High-Efficiency LLM Inference | Published | UPMEM | Paper | NA |
| UPMEM PIM platform for Data-Intensive Applications | Published (Euro-Par 2023) | UPMEM | Video Slide deck | NA |
| A survey on hardware accelerators: Taxonomy, trends, challenges, and perspectives | Published (JSA 2022) | University of Sienna / Huawei | Paper | NA |
| Architecture programming tools overview, showcasing genomics/analytics applications using UPMEM Processing In Memory | Published (HIPEAC 2021) | UPMEM | Video SDK Documentation | GitHub |
General performances and micro-benchmarks
| Title | Status | Authors | Paper/resource | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Efficiency Impact of Processing in Memory: A Comprehensive Review of Workloads on the UPMEM Architecture | Published (PECS 2023, co-located with Euro-PAR 2023) | UPMEM | Paper Paper | NA |
| Benchmarking a New Paradigm: An Experimental Analysis of a Real Processing-in-Memory Architecture | Published (IGSC 2021) | ETH Zurich | Full paper Video | GitHub |
| Benchmarking Memory-Centric Computing Systems: Analysis of Real Processing-In-Memory Hardware | Published (CUT 2021) | ETH Zurich | Paper Video | GitHub |
| A Case Study of Processing-in-Memory in off-the-Shelf Systems | Published (USENIX 2021) | University of British Columbia | Paper Video | GitHub |
Compiler / programming model
| Title | Status | Authors | Paper/resource | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimplePIM: A Software Framework for Productive and Efficient Processing-in-Memory | Published (PACT 2023) | ETH Zürich / American University of Beirut | Paper | Available soon |
| CINM (Cinnamon): A Compilation Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Compute In-Memory and Compute Near-Memory Paradigms | Published (2023) | TU Dresden / Intel | Paper | Available soon |
Libraries
| TITLE | STATUS | AUTHORS | PAPER/RESOURCE | CODE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PID-Comm: A Fast and Flexible Collective Communication Framework for Commodity Processing-in-DIMM Devices | Accepted to ISCA'24 | Seoul National University / Yonsei University | Paper | GitHub |
| TransPimLib: A Library for Efficient Transcendental Functions on Processing-in-Memory Systems | Published (ISPASS 2023) | ETH Zurich | Paper | GitHub |
| SparseP: Towards Efficient Sparse Matrix Vector Multiplication on Real Processing-In-Memory Systems | Published (POMACS 2022) | ETH Zurich | Paper | GitHub |
Genomics & Bioinformatics
| Title | Status | Authors | Paper/resource | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UpPipe: A Novel Pipeline Management on In-Memory Processors for RNA-seq Quantification | Paper accepted (DAC 2023) | National Cheng Kung University | Paper | GitHub |
| A Framework for High-throughput Sequence Alignment using Real Processing-in-Memory Systems | Published (Hi Comb 2022) | ETH Zurich | Paper | GitHub |
| Variant Calling Parallelization on Processor-in-Memory Architecture | Published (BIBM 2021) | IRISA / CNRS / INRIA | Paper | GitHub |
| BLAST software on the UPMEM architecture | Published (2016) | INRIA | Paper | Upon request |
Search
| TITLE | STATUS | AUTHORS | PAPER/RESOURCE | CODE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Index Search | Completed | UPMEM / Private company | Upon request | GitHub |
Analytics & Database
| Title | Status | Author | Paper/resource | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UPMEM-PIM Evaluation for SQL JOIN Query Acceleration | Completed | UPMEM / Private company | Upon request | GitHub |
| pimDB: From Main-Memory DBMS to Processing-In-Memory DBMS-Engines on Intelligent Memories | Published (DaMoN '23) | Reutlingen University / TU Darmstadt | Paper | NA |
| Design and Analysis of a Processing-in-DIMM Join Algorithm: A Case Study with UPMEM DIMMs | Paper accepted (SIGMOD 2023) | Yonsei University / Seoul National University | Paper | GitHub |
| Adaptive Query Compilation with Processing-in-Memory | Published (HardBD 2023) | TU Ilmenau | Paper | NA |
| Accelerating Large Table Scan using Processing-In-Memory Technology | Published (BTW 2023) | TU Ilmenau | Paper | GitHub |
| PIM-tree: A Skew-resistant Index for Processing-in-Memory | Published (VLDB Endowment Volume 16 Issue 4 2022) | Carnegie Mellon University | Paper | GitHub |
Machine Learning / Deep Learning
| Title | Status | Authors | Paper/resource | Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PyGim: An Efficient Graph Neural Network Library for Real Processing-In-Memory Architectures | Accepted (SIGMETRICS 2025) | University of Toronto / ETH Zürich / Barcelona Supercomputing Center | Paper | GitHub |
| PIM-Opt: Demystifying Distributed Optimization Algorithms on a Real-World Processing-In-Memory System | Published (PACT 2024) | ETH Zurich | Paper | GitHub |
| SwiftRL: Towards Efficient Reinforcement Learning on Real Processing-In-Memory Systems | Published (ISPASS 2024) | George Washington University / ETH Zurich | Paper | GitHub |
| An Experimental Evaluation of Machine Learning Training on a Real Processing-in-Memory System | Published (ISPASS 2023) | ETH Zurich | Paper | GitHub |
| Implementation and Evaluation of Deep Neural Networks in Commercially Available Processing in Memory Hardware | Published (SOCC 2022) | Rochester Institute of Technology | Paper Master's thesis | NA |
| An implementation of a deep learning recommendation model (DLRM) | On-going | University of British Columbia | Master's thesis | GitHub |
Security
| TITLE | STATUS | AUTHORS | PAPER/RESOURCE | CODE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluating Homomorphic Operations on a Real-World Processing-In-Memory System | Published (2023) | ETH Zürich | Paper | NA |