by Mark Silberstein on Sep 25, 2018 | Tags: Security
The security community will remember the year of 2018 as the year of speculative execution attacks. Meltdown and Spectre, the recent Foreshadow (L1TF in Intel’s terminology), and their variants demonstrate how the immense processor design complexity, perpetual...
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by Reetuparna Das and Tushar Krishna on Sep 17, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Specialization
While the concept of hardware acceleration has been around for a while, DNN accelerators are perhaps the first to see the light of commercial adoption due to the AI/ML wave. Giant software corporations, veteran hardware companies, and a plethora of start-ups have...
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by Vijay Janapa Reddi on Sep 10, 2018 | Tags: Accelerators, Hardware, Mobile, Specialization
The Moore’s Law engine that we have come to depend upon is sputtering. It is encouraging architects to innovate in alternative ways to keep the industry moving forward. The most widely accepted approach is using domain specific architectures, and as such, in recent...
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by Joy Arulraj and Spyros Blanas on Sep 3, 2018 | Tags: Databases, Memory, non-volatile
In a recent blog post, Steve Swanson presented three milestones that mark the adoption path of non-volatile memory by applications. The next step in this path is tailoring fundamental protocols and algorithms for non-volatile memory. We illustrate this point using...
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