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Towards a Java Virtual Machine for Processing-In-Memory (Extended Abstract)

Authors Kazuki Ichinose , Shigeyuki Sato , Tomoharu Ugawa

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  • Computing methodologies → Parallel programming languages
  • Hardware → Memory and dense storage
  • Software and its engineering → Interpreters
Keywords
  • Java VM
  • Processing-in-Memory
  • Offloading
  • Data parallelism

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Abstract

Processing-in-Memory (PIM) is a computing paradigm in which computation takes place in or near memory devices, offering high-bandwidth yet energy-efficient data-parallel processing. Real-world PIM systems have recently emerged, and SPMD-style programming in C is supported there. However, high-level object-oriented programming in managed languages has never been studied. Pursuing high-level programming for offloading Java applications to PIM processors, we are developing a Java framework to support it. As a status report on our project, we present our prototype Java VM built upon a real-world PIM system and experimentally demonstrate its scalability. The experimental results showed the potential of our Java VM on the PIM system with thousands of PIM processors.

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Kazuki Ichinose, Shigeyuki Sato, and Tomoharu Ugawa. Towards a Java Virtual Machine for Processing-In-Memory (Extended Abstract). In Companion Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (Programming 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 134, pp. 2:1-2:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.Programming.2025.2

Author Details

Kazuki Ichinose
  • Fixstars Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Shigeyuki Sato
  • The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Tomoharu Ugawa
  • The University of Tokyo, Japan

Funding

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 23K24822.

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