by Alexandros Daglis on Apr 27, 2021 | Tags: ASPLOS, Conference, virtual conferences
ASPLOS is the first major conference in our community that was held virtually for a second time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a whole year to prepare and adapt to the reality of online conferences, ASPLOS-XXVI lived up to the challenge,...
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by Ashish Venkat on Apr 9, 2021 | Tags: Computer Architecture, Conference, hpca21, virtual conferences
Welcome to the trip report on the 27th Annual (and the first virtual/global online) IEEE Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture! The conference marks one full year of virtual keynotes, panels, talks, and networking, for many of us, since the last...
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by Shaizeen Aga and Nuwan Jayasena on Apr 7, 2021 | Tags: 3D DRAM, HBM, HMC, Memory
Seemingly insatiable application demands for memory bandwidth, coupled with the energy needed to sustain high off-chip bandwidth, are putting increasing demands on main memory systems. In the quest for solutions that provide higher performance and better energy...
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by Nathan Beckmann on Apr 5, 2021 | Tags: Memory, Programmability
Once upon a time, cores and memory ran at similar speeds, and programs could read and write memory directly without complications. The load-store interface was born as a simple way to give programs access to data, and, at this stage in computing history, this...
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