by Phillip Stanley-Marbell on May 13, 2021 | Tags: Approximate Computing, Sensors, Uncertainty
Uncertainty in Computation and Its Relevance to Computer Architecture I have recently been thinking about uncertainty in general and uncertainty in computations in particular. It got me thinking about several questions: can uncertainty in computations be exposed above...
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by Jakub Szefer on May 11, 2021 | Tags: Cloud computing, FPGA, Security
FPGAs in Cloud Computing The availability of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in cloud datacenters has opened up new ways to improve application performance by letting users write their own custom hardware accelerators that they can realize on the FPGAs....
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by Ananth Krishna Prasad and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on May 7, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning, Optical
In a previous blog post, we summarized some advances in optical computing that enable the implementation of low-energy optical-convolutional layers using phase masks and angle-sensitive pixels. Such approaches also present multiple challenges, such as lack of...
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by Daniel A. Jiménez, Moin Qureshi, Boris Grot, and José Martínez on May 4, 2021 | Tags: Conference, Policy, Reviewing
As with all scientific communities, the field of computer architecture is driven by publications. At the heart of a meaningful scientific publication model is a fair and sound peer-reviewing process. If this process is compromised, some papers might be unfairly...
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