Computer Architecture Today

Informing the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture.
Silent Data Corruption at Scale

Silent Data Corruption at Scale

Hyperscalers are reporting frequent silent data corruptions (SDCs)—a.k.a. silent errors or corrupt execution errors (CEEs)—in their cloud fleets caused by silicon manufacturing defects. Notably, SDCs at-scale exhibit error occurrence rates on the order of one fault...

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Coping with Copilot

Coping with Copilot

CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. But students armed with it will be bringing Uzis to a knife fight. Using...

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