by Mark D. Hill on Aug 12, 2019 | Tags: Advice, Scientific Method
Many works present their results; this blog post seeks to aid you in developing your own great results, especially in computer architecture and systems. I learned these lessons over a career leading to an Eckert-Mauchly Award. I structure this blog post with steps of the scientific method.
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by Steve Swanson on Aug 8, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Memory, non-volatile, Persistent, Programmability, Storage
On July 22-23rd, UC San Diego’s Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) hosted the first Persistent Programming In Real Life (PIRL). PIRL is a new meeting devoted to gathering and sharing real-world, practical expertise...
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by Omer Anjum, Wen-Mei Hwu, Jinjun Xiong on Aug 2, 2019 | Tags: Conference, ISCA, publication trends
Recently, we conducted a detailed study of some notable publication trends at ISCA. We used the abstracts for all the papers published at ISCA from 1973, when it was inaugurated, to 2018. This blog summarizes the main findings of the detailed article which can be...
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by Keshav Pingali on Jul 25, 2019 | Tags: applications, benchmark suites, case studies
Consider the following thought experiment. You are on the program committee of a conference like ASPLOS or PLDI, and your committee must choose one of the following two papers for publication. Paper 1 describes a new program optimization and its implementation in...
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by Alvin Lebeck on Jul 18, 2019 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH
Nearly two and a half years ago, I welcomed you to Computer Architecture Today as the founding editor. Today I bid my farewells. Creating a blog was the wonderful idea of the SIGARCH Executive Committee. It took six months and input from several individuals to arrive...
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by Daniel J. Sorin, Natalie Enright Jerger on Jul 16, 2019 | Tags: Journal, Publishing, Reviewing
(This blog post is adapted from a presentation made by Natalie Enright Jerger at the ISCA 2019 business meeting.) What is CAL? IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL) was established 17 years ago to provide the computer architecture community with a rapid...
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by Yuhao Zhu on Jul 11, 2019 | Tags: Conference, ISCA
Every four years, various research conferences spanning different areas of Computer Science are co-located together into a week-long coordinated meeting, Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC), held in a common place. In 2019, the common place is Phoenix,...
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by The SIGARCH Executive Committee, November 2015 - June 2019 on Jul 3, 2019 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH
The SIGARCH elections have concluded and we welcome the new SIGARCH leadership! The new executive committee (EC) will be: Babak Falsafi (Chair), Natalie Enright Jerger (Vice-chair), Karin Strauss (Treasurer), Sarita Adve (Past chair), Joel Emer, Boris Grot, Martha...
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by Christina Delimitrou on Jun 24, 2019 | Tags: Cloud computing, Machine Learning, Systems
The past few years have seen an unprecedented increase in the number of systems targeting machine learning (ML) applications and deep learning in particular (Jeff Dean has compiled a telling graph on the exponentially increasing number of ML papers). From hardware...
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by David Patterson on Jun 11, 2019 | Tags: Benchmarks, Dhrystone, EEMBC, Embench, Linpack, MLPerf, SPEC
I. Why a New Embedded Benchmark The world will soon be deluged by tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but we still don’t have a high quality, widely reported benchmark to fairly evaluate the embedded computers that power...
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