HPCA 2026
Sat 31 January - Wed 4 February 2026 Sydney, Australia
co-located with HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC 2026
Wed 4 Feb 2026 09:50 - 10:10 at Cronulla - GPU Kernel Optimization and Resource Sharing Chair(s): Hyojin Sung

The hardware scheduler on NVIDIA GPUs is highly inefficient in utilizing micro-architectural hardware resources. It places blocks from the same kernel within the same GPU Streaming Multiprocessor (SM) core, resulting in a stacking co-locating problem, where identical blocks are placed within the same SM core, saturating only a subset of intra-SM hardware resources while leaving others underutilized.

The primary challenge in addressing this issue is that the NVIDIA hardware is closed-source, preventing us from directly modifying the hardware scheduler. To bridge the semantic gap between the resource demands of kernels and the scheduler, we introduce \emph{μShare}, which enables intra-SM scattered co-locating of kernels through a non-intrusive \emph{half-plus blocksize shaping} method. It shapes the blocksize of kernels to a half-plus blocksize (i.e., slightly more than half of the SM’s thread capacity), scattering identical blocks of the same kernel across different SMs. It further adopts a \emph{time-shifted launching} method to reduce intra-SM resource contention. Compared to state-of-the-art systems, \emph{μShare} does not require intrusive modifications to hardware or kernel code, yet it can still improve inference throughput by 26.90%-54.09% and increases low-level hardware utilization by 38.53%–61.15%.

Wed 4 Feb

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09:50 - 11:10
GPU Kernel Optimization and Resource SharingMain Conference at Cronulla
Chair(s): Hyojin Sung Seoul National University
09:50
20m
Talk
μShare: Non-Intrusive Kernel Co-Locating on NVIDIA GPUs
Main Conference
Wenhao Huang Tianjin University, Zhaolin Duan Tianjin University, Laiping Zhao Tianjin University, Yuhao Zhang Tianjin University, Yanjie Wang Tianjin University, Yiming Li Tianjin University, Yihan Wang Tianjin University, Yichi Chen Tianjin University, Zhihang Tang Tianjin University, Kang Chen Tsinghua University, Deze Zeng China University of Geosciences, Wenxin Li Tianjin University, Keqiu Li Tianjin University
10:10
20m
Talk
FlashFuser: Expanding the Scale of Kernel Fusion for Compute-Intensive operators via Inter-Core Connection
Main Conference
huang ziyu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yangjie Zhou National University of Singapore, Zihan Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xinhao Luo Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yijia Diao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Minyi Guo Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Jidong Zhai Tsinghua University, Yu Feng Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chen Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Anbang Wu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Jingwen Leng Shanghai Jiao Tong University
10:30
20m
Talk
Swift: High-Performance Sparse-Dense Matrix Multiplication on GPUs
Main Conference
Jinyu Hu Hunan University, Huizhang Luo Hunan University, Hong Jiang UT Arlington, Marc Casas Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Kenli Li National Supercomputing Center in Changsha, Hunan University, Chubo Liu Hunan University
10:50
20m
Talk
QuCo: Efficient and Flexible Hardware-Driven Automatic Configuration of Tile Transfers in GPUs
Main Conference
Nicolas Meseguer University of Murcia, daoxuan xu William & Mary, Yifan Sun William&Mary, Michael Pellauer Nvidia, José L. Abellán University of Murcia, Manuel E. Acacio Universidad de Murcia (UMU)