S2|02 Raum E121

Research Topics

Using FPGAs for Acceleration of database and machine learning applications
Heterogeneous systems and applications

Short CV

since 2019

Graduate Research Associate in the Embedded Systems and Applications Group (ESA), TU Darmstadt
2017-2019

Master of Science in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt
2014-2017

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, TU Darmstadt

Publications

Hartmann, M., Weber, L., Wirth, J., Sommer, L., and Koch, A. (2021). Optimizing a Hardware Network Stack to Realize an In-Network ML Inference Application. In 2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC).
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@inproceedings{hartmann2021h2rc,
  title = {Optimizing a Hardware Network Stack to Realize an In-Network ML Inference Application},
  author = {Hartmann, Marco and Weber, Lukas and Wirth, Johannes and Sommer, Lukas and Koch, Andreas},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC)},
  year = {2021}
}

Weber, L., Sommer, L., Solis-Vasquez, L., Vinçon, T., Knödler, C., Bernhardt, A., Petrov, I., et al. (2021). A Framework for the Automatic Generation of FPGA-based Near-Data Processing Accelerators in Smart Storage Systems. In 2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW) (pp. 136–143). doi: 10.1109/IPDPSW52791.2021.00028
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@inproceedings{weber2021raw,
  author = {Weber, Lukas and Sommer, Lukas and Solis-Vasquez, Leonardo and Vinçon, Tobias and Knödler, Christian and Bernhardt, Arthur and Petrov, Ilia and Koch, Andreas},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW)},
  title = {A Framework for the Automatic Generation of FPGA-based Near-Data Processing Accelerators in Smart Storage Systems},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {136-143},
  doi = {10.1109/IPDPSW52791.2021.00028},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d6DkVJVwc0&list=PLewc2qlpcOueI2cuqtHqopIcmmLCU0Cvn&index=10&ab_channel=NECSTLab}
}

Knödler, C., Vinçon, T., Bernhardt, A., Petrov, I., Solis-Vasquez, L., Weber, L., and Koch, A. (2021). A Cost Model for NDP-Aware Query Optimization for KV-Stores. In 17th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN). doi: 10.1145/3465998.3466013
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@inproceedings{knoedler2021damon,
  title = {A Cost Model for NDP-Aware Query Optimization for KV-Stores},
  author = {Kn\"{o}dler, Christian and Vin\c{c}on, Tobias and Bernhardt, Arthur and Petrov, Ilia and Solis-Vasquez, Leonardo and Weber, Lukas and Koch, Andreas},
  booktitle = {17th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN)},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1145/3465998.3466013},
  preprint = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3465998.3466013}
}

Kruppe, H., Sommer, L., Weber, L., Oppermann, J., Axenie, C., and Koch, A. (2021). Efficient Operator Sharing Modulo Scheduling for Sum-Product Network Inference on FPGAs. In Intl. Conf. on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation (SAMOS). Springer International Publishing.
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@inproceedings{kruppe2021samos,
  title = {Efficient Operator Sharing Modulo Scheduling for Sum-Product Network Inference on FPGAs},
  author = {Kruppe, Hanna and Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Oppermann, Julian and Axenie, Cristian and Koch, Andreas},
  booktitle = {Intl. Conf. on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation (SAMOS)},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Springer International Publishing}
}

Heinz, C., Hofmann, J., Korinth, J., Sommer, L., Weber, L., and Koch, A. (2021). The TaPaSCo Open-Source Toolflow. Journal of Signal Processing Systems. doi: 10.1007/s11265-021-01640-8
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@article{heinz2021jsps,
  author = {Heinz, Carsten and Hofmann, Jaco and Korinth, Jens and Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Koch, Andreas},
  title = {The TaPaSCo Open-Source Toolflow},
  journal = {Journal of Signal Processing Systems},
  year = {2021},
  month = may,
  day = {02},
  issn = {1939-8115},
  doi = {10.1007/s11265-021-01640-8},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-021-01640-8},
  preprint = {https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11265-021-01640-8.pdf}
}

Weber, L., Vincon, T., Knödler, C., Solis-Vasquez, L., Bernhardt, A., Petrov, I., and Koch, A. (2021). On the necessity of explicit cross-layer data formats in near-data processing systems. Distributed and Parallel Databases. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-021-07328-z
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@article{weber2021dapd,
  title = {On the necessity of explicit cross-layer data formats in near-data processing systems},
  author = {Weber, Lukas and Vincon, Tobias and Knödler, Christian and Solis-Vasquez, Leonardo and Bernhardt, Arthur and Petrov, Ilia and Koch, Andreas},
  journal = {Distributed and Parallel Databases},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-021-07328-z},
  preprint = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-021-07328-z}
}

Vinçon, T., Weber, L., Bernhardt, A., Riegger, C., Hardock, S., Knoedler, C., Stock, F., et al. (2020). nKV in Action: Accelerating KV-Stores on Native Computation Storage with Near-Data Processing. In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 13.
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@inproceedings{weber2020vldb,
  author = {Vin\c{c}on, Tobias and Weber, Lukas and Bernhardt, Arthur and Riegger, Christian and Hardock, Sergey and Knoedler, Christian and Stock, Florian and Solis-Vasquez, Leonardo and Tamimi, Sajjad and Koch, Andreas},
  title = {nKV in Action: Accelerating KV-Stores on Native Computation Storage with Near-Data Processing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 13},
  year = {2020},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGh6Pj_A9k}
}

Vinçon, T., Bernhardt, A., Petrov, I., Weber, L., and Koch, A. (2020). NKV: Near-Data Processing with KV-Stores on Native Computational Storage. In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware, DaMoN ’20. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3399666.3399934
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@inproceedings{vincon2020damon,
  author = {Vin\c{c}on, Tobias and Bernhardt, Arthur and Petrov, Ilia and Weber, Lukas and Koch, Andreas},
  title = {NKV: Near-Data Processing with KV-Stores on Native Computational Storage},
  year = {2020},
  isbn = {9781450380249},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3399666.3399934},
  doi = {10.1145/3399666.3399934},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware},
  articleno = {10},
  numpages = {11},
  location = {Portland, Oregon},
  series = {DaMoN ’20}
}

Vinçon, T., Bernhardt, A., Weber, L., Koch, A., and Petrov, I. (2020). On the Necessity of Explicit Cross-Layer Data Formats in Near-Data Processing Systems. In 2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW) (pp. 109–114).
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@inproceedings{vincon2020hardbd,
  author = {{Vinçon}, T. and {Bernhardt}, A. and {Weber}, L. and {Koch}, A. and {Petrov}, I.},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE 36th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (ICDEW)},
  title = {On the Necessity of Explicit Cross-Layer Data Formats in Near-Data Processing Systems},
  year = {2020},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {109-114},
  preprint = {http://db.ict.ac.cn/HardBD-Active-2020/papers/VinconBWKP-HardBDActive-2020.pdf}
}

Sommer, L., Weber, L., Kumm, M., and Koch, A. (2020). Comparison of Arithmetic Number Formats for Inference in Sum-Product Networks on FPGAs. In 2020 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) (pp. 1–10).
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@inproceedings{sommer2020fccm,
  author = {Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Kumm, Martin and Koch, Andreas},
  booktitle = {2020 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)},
  title = {Comparison of Arithmetic Number Formats for Inference in Sum-Product Networks on FPGAs},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {1-10},
  video = {http://www.fccm.org/past/2020/forums/topic/comparison-of-arithmetic-number-formats-for-inference-in-sum-product-networks-on/}
}

Weber, L., Sommer, L., Oppermann, J., Molina, A., Kersting, K., and Koch, A. (2019). Resource-Efficient Logarithmic Number Scale Arithmetic for SPN Inference on FPGAs. In International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT).
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@inproceedings{weber2019relnsafsiof,
  title = {Resource-Efficient Logarithmic Number Scale Arithmetic for SPN Inference on FPGAs},
  author = {Weber, Lukas and Sommer, Lukas and Oppermann, Julian and Molina, Alejandro and Kersting, Kristian and Koch, Andreas},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)},
  year = {2019}
}

Oppermann, J., Sommer, L., Weber, L., Reuter-Oppermann, M., Koch, A., and Sinnen, O. (2019). SkyCastle: A Resource-Aware Multi-Loop Scheduler for High-Level Synthesis. In International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT).
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@inproceedings{oppermann2019scamlsfhls,
  title = {SkyCastle: A Resource-Aware Multi-Loop Scheduler for High-Level Synthesis},
  author = {Oppermann, Julian and Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Reuter-Oppermann, Melanie and Koch, Andreas and Sinnen, Oliver},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)},
  year = {2019}
}

Ober, M., Hofmann, J., Sommer, L., Weber, L., and Koch, A. (2019). High-Throughput Multi-Threaded Sum-Product Network Inference in the Reconfigurable Cloud. In Fifth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC).
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@inproceedings{ober2019h2rc,
  title = {High-Throughput Multi-Threaded Sum-Product Network Inference in the Reconfigurable Cloud},
  author = {Ober, Micha and Hofmann, Jaco and Sommer, Lukas and Weber, Lukas and Koch, Andreas},
  booktitle = {Fifth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC)},
  year = {2019}
}