SCALO: An Accelerator-Rich Distributed System for Scalable Brain-Computer Interfacing

Abstract

SCALO is the first distributed brain-computer interface made of multiple wireless-networked implants placed on different brain regions. It enables new therapeutic and neuroscience applications while meeting the strict power and latency constraints that have historically limited interfaces to a single brain site. SCALO is designed as a full-stack distributed system with accelerator-rich compute and aggressive cross-layer hardware-software co-design across computation, networking, and storage. The result offers broader lessons for building energy-efficient networked systems with hardware accelerators from the ground up.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{scalo,
  author = {Sriram, Karthik and Pothukuchi, Raghavendra and Gerasimiuk, Micha\l{} and Ugur, Muhammed and Ye, Oliver and Manohar, Rajit and Khandelwal, Anurag and Bhattacharjee, Abhishek},
  title = {{SCALO: An Accelerator-Rich Distributed System for Scalable Brain-Computer Interfacing}},
  month = jun,
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {ACM ISCA},
  award = {Best Paper Award, IEEE Micro's Top Picks in Computer Architecture 2023}
}