by Siddharth Garg, Brian Hirano, Jenny Huang, Yingyan (Celine) Lin, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Tushar Krishna, Srivatsan Krishnan, Benjamin Lee, Jason Lowe-Power, Martin Maas, Shvetank Prakash, Matthew D. Sinclair, Srinivas Sridharan, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Jason Yik, Cliff Young on Dec 20, 2023 | Tags: Benchmarks, Competitions, Datasets, Leaderboards, Machine Learning, ML4Sys, MLSys
Benchmarks, Competitions, Datasets, Leaderboards, Machine Learning, ML4Sys, MLSys
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by Zixuan Wang and Jishen Zhao on Dec 8, 2023 | Image generated by DALL·E through ChatGPT. Heterogeneous Memory: A Journey Toward Performance The heterogeneous memory system is pivotal in today’s computer architecture. By integrating various types of memory for specific tasks and organizing them as a hierarchy, the...
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by Thaleia Dimitra Doudali on Nov 27, 2023 | Tags: Cloud computing, Forecasting, Machine Learning, Resource Management
How many times have you tried setting up a virtual machine, container pods or serveless functions in the cloud and wondered how many resources (cores, memory etc.) to configure? In practice, users request more resources than actually end up using. This is a known...
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by CA SA on Nov 8, 2023 | Tags: CASA, Mentoring
Program Overview The Computer Architecture Long-term Mentorship Program (CALM) was launched by some committee members from Computer Architecture Student Association (CASA) in 2021. The program aims to help junior researchers establish and maintain a long-term...
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by Babak Falsafi on Oct 26, 2023 | Our executive committee started in July of 2019. Our usual mandate included launching, delivering, and reporting on initiatives based on three pillars in SIGARCH’s mission statement – technical exchange, talent development and recognition, and outreach. These...
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by Boris Grot and Dmitrii Ustiugov on Oct 5, 2023 | Tags: Cloud computing, Serverless
Serverless 101 Serverless computing has emerged as a pivotal development and deployment paradigm for cloud computing. According to a recent analyst report, over 50% of companies that use cloud services have adopted serverless computing. Usage of serverless...
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by Partha Ranganathan on Sep 25, 2023 | It is with a heavy heart that I pass on the news that our colleague and friend, Luiz André Barroso is no longer with us. Luiz passed away unexpectedly on September 16th, 2023. He was 59. Luiz was an eminent computer scientist, and a giant in the computer architecture...
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by Divya Mahajan on Sep 7, 2023 | Tags: Conference, Mentoring, uarch, Workshop
The 5th annual Undergraduate Architecture Mentoring (uArch) Workshop was co-located with the International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2023, hosted in Orlando, Florida. As with the previous year, uArch was conducted in a hybrid format, combining...
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by Andrew Chien on Aug 30, 2023 | First, what is an architectural metric? A quantitative measure that can be used to inform computer architecture choices to compare choices such as organization, mechanisms, and implementation [ABB64,HP94]. The best metrics would be applied to measure specific...
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by hyoukjun kwon on Aug 28, 2023 | Tags: acceleration, AI, dataflow, efficiency, ML, Specialization
The Benefit vs Curse of Specialization The pervasiveness of deep neural network (DNN) accelerators and cambrian explosion in AI accelerator chip designs is testament to the value of specialization. The datapaths in these accelerators are tailored to the operators and...
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