by Biswabandan Panda on Oct 30, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Microarchitecture, Virtual Meetings
MICRO 2020, one of the flagship forums in the field of computer architecture, just came to an end in Athens, Greece. Hang on. We are still in the COVID-19 era, and I had to take a virtual, and the cheapest flight from New Delhi to Athens. The flight included access to...
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by Lisa Hsu on Oct 20, 2020 | Tags: Advice, Datacenters, Systems
I once attended a talk by Yoky Matsuoka when I was young – so young, in fact, that I don’t remember when or where the talk was. What I do remember is her telling the story of designing a prosthetic hand. She had encountered previous designs where the...
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by Emery Berger on Oct 12, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Architecture, Benchmarks, Programmability
The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. These, let’s call them metal languages, include FORTRAN...
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by Akshitha Sriraman on Oct 8, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Diversity, Interview, Mentoring
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in the SIGOPS blog and is re-posted here with permission.] With most systems and architecture conferences taking the online route, we figured it’s a great time to get to know a few people in the systems/architecture...
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by Jun Yang and Mattan Erez on Oct 7, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Reviewing, Virtual Meetings
MICRO 2020 is one of the earliest large conferences that experienced the full course of the pandemic starting from the lockdown order throughout the entire US. The submission deadline was pushed back due to the abrupt changes in normality. This helped authors to...
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by Ananth Krishna Prasad and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on Oct 2, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Optical
Deep Neural Networks have been a major focus for computer architects in the recent past due to the massive parallelism available in computation, combined with the massive amount of data re-use. While the proposed architectures have inspired industry innovations such...
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by Khari Douglas on Sep 25, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the blogs of the HLF and the CCC and is re-posted here with permission.] As part of the first day of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) David A. Patterson, who won the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award “for...
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by Spyros Blanas on Sep 15, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Databases, Memory
GPUs have outgrown their role as dedicated graphics processing units and are now a prominent, mainstream platform for general-purpose parallel computing. Evidence of the growing popularity of GPUs can be seen in cloud vendors offering GPU instances for cents per hour,...
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by Akanksha Jain and Arpit Joshi on Sep 10, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Networking, Reviewing
This blog post recounts the first program committee meeting experiences of two recent PhDs. Akanksha Jain My first experience being a PC member was for HPCA 2019. I was quite nervous going in, but I have to say that the overall experience was one of the most enjoyable...
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by Caroline Trippel on Aug 12, 2020 | Tags: ISCA, Security, Verification
Prof. Christopher Fletcher (UIUC), Dr. Frank McKeen (Intel), Prof. Edward Suh (Cornell), and I served as panelists for the 2020 ISCA Security Mini-Panel. This blog post reflects on our panel discussion. The security of modern applications is underpinned by the...
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