by Jung Ho Ahn on Apr 28, 2022 | Tags: Bootstrapping, Emerging Application, Homomorphic Encryption, Privacy-preserving Computing
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is an emerging, computationally intensive application for computer architects. HE allows computations on encrypted data (called ciphertexts). In the machine-learning-as-a-service era, HE is highlighted as an enabler for privacy-preserving...
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by Elaheh Sadredini and Daniel Wong on Apr 18, 2022 | Tags: Conference, Virtual Meetings
Welcome to the trip report on the 28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-28)! This marks the second fully-virtual HPCA (and hopefully last). With signs of the COVID-19 pandemic receding last November 2021, HPCA decided to...
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by Xiangyao Yu on Apr 13, 2022 | Tags: Cloud computing, Databases, Datacenters, Emerging Technology, Memory Disaggregation, Near Data Computing, Storage
The memory and storage hierarchy deepens in modern systems. To mitigate the low performance of memory/storage devices at the bottom of the hierarchy, near-data processing has been studied across different memory and storage devices as a means to reduce access latency...
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by Elba Garza and Abdulrahman Mahmoud on Apr 7, 2022 | Tags: ASPLOS, Conference, Conferences
Early this March, computer and systems architects from the world over gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland to attend the 27th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, or ASPLOS 2022. The first conference to go...
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by Vijay Chidambaram on Apr 4, 2022 | Tags: Conference, rebuttal, Review, Reviewing
Many CS systems and architecture conferences have a rebuttal phase or an author response period, where authors can respond to the questions asked by reviewers, and correct misunderstandings by reviewers. We discuss the pros and cons of this phase, and whether it is a...
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