


ASPLOS’23 Program Chairs’ Recap
For 2023, ASPLOS embarked on a new multi-deadline review model. Multiple deadlines are meant to encourage authors to submit their papers when ready, to facilitate the selection of some papers for revision and to distribute the reviewer workload better. In this post,...
Review of Recent Research on Quantum Computer Architecture Security
Introduction Quantum computer architecture security research is a new and active research field. As the new year and semester is under way, this article looks back at the recent quantum computer architecture security papers published or posted online in the prior year...Looking Beyond Microarchitectural Side Channels

Distbench: A Flexible Network Benchmarking Tool
Networking performance is critical to distributed applications, and there are always efforts underway to improve the performance of datacenter network communication stacks. These efforts take a variety of approaches. For example, they may result in either new hardware...Scaling through Small: Applying Modularity toward Practical Quantum Architectures
IISWC 25th Anniversary
Fast memcpy, A System Design
When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing,...
Architecture and Hardware Security Research at USENIX Security Symposium 2022
In Memoriam — Michel Dubois (April 25, 1953 – July 7, 2022)
It is with deep sadness and great sorrow that we inform the community about the recent passing of our dear friend and colleague, Professor Michel Dubois, a foundational leader in our field of computer architecture and parallel processing. In Michel’s honor, a memorial symposium in celebration of his life and scholarly contributions will be held on Saturday, October 29th, at USC in Los Angeles, California.