by Scott Mahlke and Onur Mutlu on Nov 22, 2017 | Tags: Conference, Diversity
To all those who attended the MICRO business meeting diversity discussion and/or have followed it on this blog/twitter, we wanted to provide an update to the MICRO and broader computer architecture communities as to the next steps. First off, we want to thank everyone...
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by Steve Swanson on Nov 7, 2017 | Tags: Errors, Memory, Persistent, Storage
Integrating non-volatile main memories (NVMMs) into the storage/memory hierarchy make data integrity a critical design consideration. Protecting data in NVMM is a complex problem: media errors and software bugs can corrupt data and the reliability of each memory...
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by Olivier Temam with Luis Ceze, Joel Emer, and Karin Strauss on Nov 6, 2017 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH, Machine Learning, Vision
We are pleased to announce the creation of the ACM SIGARCH YouTube channel with recorded videos from the first workshop in the Visioning Series, the Workshop on Trends in Machine Learning co-held with ISCA 2017. The Visioning Series was launched this year to catalyze...
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by Tilman Wolf on Nov 1, 2017 | Tags: Distributed Systems, Energy, Security
Emerging cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum have reached market capitalizations in the billions of U.S. dollars and transactions volumes in the hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars per day according to coinmarketcap.com. The underlying technology of...
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