HPCA 2026
Sat 31 January - Wed 4 February 2026 Sydney, Australia
co-located with HPCA/CGO/PPoPP/CC 2026

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 4 Feb 2026 11:30 - 11:50 at Collaroy - FPGA, SmartNIC, and Reconfigurable Computing

Graph Random Walks (GRWs) offer efficient approximations of key graph properties and have been widely adopted in many applications. However, GRW workloads are notoriously difficult to accelerate due to their strong data dependencies, irregular memory access patterns, and imbalanced execution behavior. While recent work explores FPGA-based accelerators for GRWs, existing solutions fall far short of hardware potential due to inefficient pipelining and static scheduling. This paper presents RidgeWalker, a high-performance GRW accelerator designed for datacenter FPGAs. The key insight behind RidgeWalker is that the Markov property of GRWs allows decomposition into stateless, fine-grained tasks that can be executed out-of-order without compromising correctness. Building on this, RidgeWalker introduces an asynchronous pipeline architecture with a feedback-driven scheduler grounded in queuing theory, enabling perfect pipelining and adaptive load balancing. We prototype RidgeWalker on datacenter FPGAs and evaluated it across a range of GRW algorithms and real-world graph datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that RidgeWalker achieves an average speedup of 7.0× over state-of-the-art FPGA solutions and 8.1× over GPU solutions, with peak speedups of up to 71.0× and 22.9×, respectively. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/Xtra-Computing/RidgeWalker.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 4 Feb

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:30 - 12:50
FPGA, SmartNIC, and Reconfigurable ComputingMain Conference at Collaroy
11:30
20m
Talk
RidgeWalker: Perfectly Pipelined Graph Random Walks on FPGAs
Main Conference
Hongshi Tan National University of Singapore, Yao CHEN , Xinyu Chen Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Qizhen Zhang University of Toronto, Cheng Chen ByteDance, China, Weng-Fai Wong National University of Singapore, Bingsheng He National University of Singapore
11:50
20m
Talk
DP-HLS: A High-Level Synthesis Framework for Accelerating Dynamic Programming Algorithms in Bioinformatics
Main Conference
Anshu Gupta UC San Diego, Yingqi Cao UC San Diego, Jason Liang UC San Diego, Yatish Turakhia UC San Diego
12:10
20m
Talk
Sassy: SmartNIC-Assisted Notification Delivery for μs-scale RDMA Workloads
Main Conference
Hamed Seyedroudbari Georgia Tech, Alexandros Daglis Georgia Tech
12:30
20m
Talk
TurboFuzz: FPGA Accelerated Hardware Fuzzing for Processor Agile Verification
Main Conference
Yang Zhong Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haoran Wu University of Cambridge, Xueqi Li State Key Lab of Processors, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, Sa Wang SKLP, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, David Boland The University of Sydney, Yungang Bao State Key Lab of Processors, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kan Shi Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Sciences