Seminar in Computer Architecture - S7: MARS and HARP (Fall 2025)

Seminar in Computer Architecture, ETH Zürich, Fall 2025 (https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_s...)

Date: November 27, 2025

Session 7.1: MARS: Processing-In-Memory Acceleration of Raw Signal Genome Analysis Inside the Storage Subsystem, ICS 2025
Slides (pptx): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_s...
Slides (pdf): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_s...
Paper (pdf): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_s...

Session 7.2: Harp: Leveraging Quasi-Sequential Characteristics to Accelerate Sequence-to-Graph Mapping of Long Reads, ASPLOS 2024
Slides (pptx): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_s...
Slides (pdf): https://safari.ethz.ch/architecture_s...
Paper (pdf):

Recommended Reading: 
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A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.03112.pdf

Memory-Centric Computing: Solving Computing's Memory Problem
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2505.00458

Memory-Centric Computing: Recent Advances in Processing-in-DRAM
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19275 

Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Computing Systems 
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...

RowHammer: A Retrospective
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...

Fundamentally Understanding and Solving RowHammer
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.07613.pdf

Accelerating Genome Analysis via Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...

From Molecules to Genomic Variations: Accelerating Genome Analysis via Intelligent Algorithms and Architectures
https://people.inf.ethz.ch/omutlu/pub...


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