by Dmitry Ponomarev on Nov 17, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Security
Security remains a popular research area in our conferences – MICRO-53 featured two sessions and eight papers dedicated to security. To contribute new ideas in this area, it is important for computer architects to keep up with recent developments in both...
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by Dimitris Gizopoulos on Nov 11, 2020 | Tags: Conferences, Microarchitecture, virtual conferences
The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary gives two definitions for the adjective “virtual”: (d1) “. . . made to appear to exist by the use of computer software, for example on the internet”, and (d2) “. . . almost or very nearly the thing described, so that any...
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by Natalie Enright Jerger on Nov 9, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Chiplets, Emerging Technology, Networking
[Editor’s Note: I’m very happy to announce that Christina Delimitrou of Cornell University will be serving as the blog’s Associate Editor. Thank you, Vijay Janapa Reddi, for your amazing service in this role for the last three years!] Chip vendors...
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by Mingyu Gao on Nov 2, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Students
Effective collaboration and communication are the key to the academic success of both the advisor and the student. Unfortunately, in most cases the advisor can only afford to schedule the regular 1:1 meetings weekly or bi-weekly rather than daily. This means that in a...
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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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