by Steve Swanson on Dec 24, 2019 | Tags: Humor, ISCA
’Twas the night before ISCA, when all through the lab every grad student working, no sleep had they had. I’d written the intro with obsessive care, In hopes that good data soon would be there. The graphs were each nestled snug in their sections, Set to overpower...
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by Christina Delimitrou on Dec 23, 2019 | Tags: Cloud computing, Datacenters, Networking
The past five years have seen a significant change in the way cloud applications are designed. In place of large monolithic services, where the functionality of an entire application like a social network or search engine was implemented as a single codebase that...
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by Sarita V. Adve, Ratislav Bodik, Luis Ceze on Dec 18, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Software Stack, Systems
We are pleased to share the results of a DARPA ISAT study, I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution, arguing for new hardware/software interfaces to enable the revolution promised by hardware specialization. Advances in hardware specialization...
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