The Looming Network Wall in Data-Intensive Computing
Fast, RDMA-capable networks present a “network wall” for data-intensive applications in a data center. Software developers are facing two unpalatable choices: either communicate using messages and re-implement features of TCP/IP in their application, or...
IEEE TCuARCH Candidate Statement
I am running for Chair of TCuARCH because I have been part of the microarchitecture community for 32 years, appreciate greatly all the good that TCuARCH has done during that period, but recognize there is still much work to be done, and would like to lead it. TCuARCH,...
Looking Back, Looking Ahead
The Year in Review The new year is upon us and it’s time to reflect on 2017 and to look ahead for 2018. We launched Computer Architecture Today with our first Welcome post on March 19, 2017. Since launch there have been 44 posts from 22 contributors, both our...
Hardware Security
Two high impact microarchitectural timing attacks were disclosed yesterday. (https://nyti.ms/2EOX03d). 10000 ft overview: This is a very intricate attack but the root cause is unflushed speculative state from the cache resulting in a timing variations. Apparently the...
How PC chairs and PC members can help improve our process
I discuss some key issues with our review process and give some suggestions for the PC chairs and PC members.
Open-Source Hardware: Stone Soups and Not Stone Statues, Please
Open-source software has become so entrenched in the software development ecosystem that major services (e.g., the Facebook cloud service) and products (e.g., the Android mobile operating system) rely almost exclusively upon open-source components and tools. This...
Kalman filtering without Bayesians and Gaussians
Kalman filtering shows us how to fuse noisy measurements.
Elections have Consequences: Join IEEE TCuARCH and Vote!
The computer architecture community is best served when its elected leadership provides strong guidance to and oversight of our flagship conferences. This has long been the case for ACM SIGARCH, which co-sponsors ISCA and ASPLOS, and IEEE TCCA, which (co-)sponsors...
Follow-up from MICRO-50 Business Meeting
To all those who attended the MICRO business meeting diversity discussion and/or have followed it on this blog/twitter, we wanted to provide an update to the MICRO and broader computer architecture communities as to the next steps. First off, we want to thank everyone...Subscribe
