Computer Architecture Today

Informing the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture.
Chilly Climate in Computer Architecture?

Chilly Climate in Computer Architecture?

To better understand the climate of the computer architecture community and assess initiatives launched by WICARCH, we conducted a survey from mid-June to mid-July. The survey followed several efforts to understand gender diversity in computer architecture and the...

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Server Architecture for the New Age Datacenter

Server Architecture for the New Age Datacenter

Server architectures have largely been boring. Boring has been good. It has helped applications thrive in a stable H/W ecosystem and innovate at providing business logic. While performance improvements have largely been single thread performance improvements extended to data center class systems, we are beginning to see a new era in Server architecture designs driven by memory technologies, accelerators and fabrics like Gen-Z, CCIX and Open CAPI that glue them.
Keywords
X86, Memory centric architectures, Gen-Z, CCIX, Open CAPI

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