by The R2 Committee on May 31, 2018 |
The ad hoc R2 committee jointly formed by SIGARCH/TCCA has been unsuccessful in its attempts to effect change in the ISCA review process.
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by David Patterson on May 30, 2018 | Tags: CISC, history, microprogram, RISC
I recently went through old files in preparation for the Turing Award Lecture on June 4, and discovered a paper that was rejected by IEEE Computer yet was a stepping stone to Reduced Instruction Set Computers: “The Case for a New Control Store for the Next...
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by Reetuparna Das on May 23, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, AI, Neural Networks, Throwback
Neural networks are transforming AI and will impact our society in ways we can’t begin to imagine. The possibilities are endless: from autonomous vehicles to revolutionizing healthcare. The hardware industry is clearly excited about this revolution, as can be seen...
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by Spyros Blanas on May 17, 2018 | Tags: Databases, Near Data Computing
The end of Dennard scaling has exposed a widening gap between the demand to process ever-growing datasets and the capability of modern computers to do so. In a quest to make data processing faster and more power-efficient, researchers are revisiting the decades-old...
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by Joel Emer on May 10, 2018 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH, Conference, Mentoring
Have you ever gone to an architecture conference and seen a more senior researcher in a conversation and wished you could join them? Maybe he/she is the author of an article that you found particularly interesting and would like to get a deeper insight into the work. ...
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