by Jason Lowe-Power on Jul 26, 2024 | Tags: gem5, Simulators
It’s been almost 5 years since the last post on the SIGARCH blog about gem5. In that post, we talked about improving community outreach, providing a simpler interface to get started with gem5, and adding support for full machine learning stacks. I’m excited to say...
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by Friends, Colleagues, and Students of Arvind on Jul 24, 2024 | It is with a heavy heart that we write to share the news that on June 17th 2024, we lost our beloved colleague, mentor, and friend Arvind. Arvind passed away at 77 years old, after an illness he was being treated for took a sudden turn for the worse. Arvind...
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by Gururaj Saileshwar on Jul 19, 2024 | Tags: Conference
ISCA 2024 that recently concluded in Buenos Aires was a historic event. For the first time in its 50+ years of existence, ISCA was organized in Latin America. The conference organizers, led by general chairs (GCs) Augusto Vega and Esteban Mocskos, worked diligently to...
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by David Kaeli on Jul 10, 2024 | Tags: Journal, Publications
ACM Transactions on Computer Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO) was established in 2003, with Dean Tullsen and Brad Calder as the Founding Co-Editors-in-Chief. Over the past 20 years, the journal has served as a high-quality platform for rapid dissemination of...
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by Teague Tomesh, Colin Campbell, Sid Ramesh, Alexander Pearson, Samantha Riesenfeld and Fred Chong on Jun 28, 2024 | Tags: Quantum Computing
Quantum hardware has made significant advances in the last few years, but finding compelling applications with practical quantum advantage has been challenging. In today’s article, we argue that real applications will be a hybrid combination of quantum and classical...
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by Yungang Bao on Jun 18, 2024 | Tags: Open-source hardware, RISC-V
“The theory behind open source is simple. In the case of an operating system, the source code is free. Anyone can improve it, change it, exploit it. But those improvements, changes, and exploitations have to be made freely available.” – Linus Torvalds The advent of...
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by Josep Torrellas on Jun 13, 2024 | Tags: Distributed Computing, Energy-Efficiency, Security
One of the most pressing challenges facing today’s digital society is how to curb the relentless increase in the energy consumption of computing. Without major action, such an increase is even likely to accelerate, as ubiquitous AI models are embedded in applications...
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by Mohammad Bakhshalipour and Phillip Gibbons on Jun 5, 2024 | Tags: benchmark suite, robot, robotics
Robots: A Growing Force in Our World Robots are becoming increasingly integral in various sectors such as economy, healthcare, agriculture, and defense. With predictions of over 20 million robots in operation by 2030 and a burgeoning robotics market, their seamless...
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by Akanksha Jain and Daniel Wong on May 29, 2024 | Welcome to the ASPLOS 2024 trip report. This year, ASPLOS 2024 was held in sunny San Diego from April 27- May 1, 2024 and was the largest ASPLOS ever. With ~800 attendees across 21 countries, ASPLOS 2024 was nearly double the size of ASPLOS 2023. General Chairs Nael...
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by Tamar Eilam on May 22, 2024 | Tags: Sustainability, Sustainable Computing
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing and the demise of Dennard scaling is becoming increasingly apparent, the importance of Sustainable Computing has never been more critical. Global datacenter electricity consumption reached 460 TWh in...
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