Computer Architecture Today

Informing the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture.
SDCs: A B C

SDCs: A B C

Data center hyperscalers (Meta, Google, Alibaba) have disclosed over the last four years an unexpectedly high number of CPUs (~1 in 1000) that produce Silent Data Corruptions (SDCs), i.e. program executions that produce wrong results without any observable indication....

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Autonomy 2.0: The Quest for Economies of Scale

Autonomy 2.0: The Quest for Economies of Scale

A version of this blog post will appear as an opinion article in CACM. Continued progress in the burgeoning field of robotics and autonomous machines depends critically on an efficient computing substrate.  For very good reasons, the systems and architecture have...

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