by Jay Shah on Oct 8, 2024 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning, Programming
General Matrix Multiplication (GEMM) is a fundamental operation in machine learning and scientific computing. It is the classic example of an algorithm that benefits greatly from GPU acceleration due to its high degree of data parallelism. More recently, efficient...
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by Daniel Moghimi on Sep 26, 2024 | Tags: Security
The discovery of Meltdown and Spectre, along with their extensive media coverage, brought hardware security research to the spotlight. A wake-up call for major chipset manufacturers such as Intel, AMD, and ARM, we learnt that hardware vulnerabilities can be exploited...
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by Dimitris Gizopoulos on Sep 16, 2024 | Tags: fault tolerance, Reliability, silent data corruptions
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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by Ghadeer Almusaddar and Yicheng Zhang on Sep 9, 2024 | Tags: Conferences, Security
33rd USENIX Security Symposium was held in Philadelphia in August 2024. Following recent trends, the symposium featured several sessions dedicated to hardware and microarchitectural security. The program includes papers targeting side-channels and covert channels...
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by Yuhao Zhu, Shuang Wu, Bo Yu, Shaoshan Liu on Sep 3, 2024 | Tags: autonomy, 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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by Irene Wang on Aug 27, 2024 | Tags: Conference, Mentoring, uarch, Workshop
The 6th annual Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring (uArch) Workshop was co-located with the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2024, hosted in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As with the previous year, uArch was conducted in a hybrid format, combining...
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by Irene Y. Zhang on Aug 23, 2024 | Tags: Diversity, Harassment
Note: This is a republication of the blog post from the author’s website: https://irenezhang.net/news and the post from SIGOPS blog: https://www.sigops.org/2024/the-moral-implications-of-being-a-moderately-successful-computer-scientist-and-a-woman/ I recently...
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by Dan Sorin, Vijay Nagarajan, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Rajeev Balasubramonian on Aug 19, 2024 | Tags: Conference, Reviewing
Good news: The computer architecture community is growing! Submissions to major conferences have increased substantially in recent years, including just under 500 submissions to MICRO 2024. This growth reflects the vibrancy in our field, continued expansion of what...
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by Karu Sankaralingam on Aug 2, 2024 | Tags: Reviewing
Navigating the labyrinthine corridors of academic publishing, authors often encounter three formidable guardians, each with their unique, sometimes perplexing, approach to gatekeeping. These are the Confused Reviewer, the Rational Reviewer, and the Lazy Reviewer....
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by Carole Jean-Wu, Tamar Eilam, Babak Falsafi, Gage Hills, and Srilatha Manne on Aug 1, 2024 | Tags: Sustainable Computing
Digital technologies have enabled a plethora of new applications that have unlocked significant economic growth and improved the quality of many aspects of our lives. Despite the positive societal benefits, as computing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, so does its...
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