by Andrew A. Chien on Jul 24, 2023 | Tags: Accelerators, amd, apple, Cloud computing, Datacenters, embodied carbon, intel, nvidia, operational carbon, qualcomm, Sustainability, tsmc
I. Embodied Carbon Recently, embodied carbon, defined as the Scope 3 GHG emissions that arise from the manufacturing processes that lead to computing electronics, has become popular as an architectural metric for sustainability. If you are considering it or using it,...
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by Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Vilas Sridharan, and Sankar Gurumurthy on Jul 17, 2023 | Tags: Architecture, Debugging, fault tolerance, faults
Overview Reliability is essential for computing. However, as technology nodes have scaled, there have been several fundamental physical challenges to overcome to provide the abstraction of reliability. One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal...
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by José Martínez on Jul 3, 2023 | Tags: 25, ISCA, retrospective
Dear members of the SIGARCH and TCCA communities, In 1998, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of ISCA, Guri Sohi put together a volume of selected papers and author retrospectives from 1973 through 1995 (ISCA-1 through ISCA-22) with help from several program...
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