by Yan Pei, Swarnendu Biswas, Don Fussell, and Keshav Pingali on Jan 29, 2018 | Tags: Data fusion, Kalman filters, Measurements, State estimation in linear systems
This is the second of a multi-part post that introduces Kalman filtering in an accessible way to computer systems researchers. In the previous post, we described how two noisy estimates of a scalar quantity such as temperature can be fused using the optimal linear...
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by Scott Mahlke and Onur Mutlu on Jan 25, 2018 | Tags: Conference, Diversity
As part of the MICRO-50 business meeting, there was a session devoted to discussing diversity in MICRO and more broadly computer architecture conferences. One of the decisions the SC co-chairs made (in consultation with many members of the MICRO community) was to get...
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by Reetuparna Das on Jan 22, 2018 | This blog is a part of a two-part series on the subject of architectural evaluation methodology. The first blog was a collection of opinions from experts on the question “When to Prototype? When to Simulate?”. For those who missed part-I, the picture below is a...
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by Spyros Blanas on Jan 18, 2018 | Tags: Databases, Datacenters, Distributed Systems, Memory, Networking, Operating Systems
Fast, RDMA-capable networks present a “network wall” for data-intensive applications in a data center. Software developers are facing two unpalatable choices: either communicate using messages and re-implement features of TCP/IP in their application, or...
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by Wen-mei Hwu on Jan 11, 2018 | Tags: Opinion
I am running for Chair of TCuARCH because I have been part of the microarchitecture community for 32 years, appreciate greatly all the good that TCuARCH has done during that period, but recognize there is still much work to be done, and would like to lead it. TCuARCH,...
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