Computer Architecture Today

Informing the broad computing community about current activities, advances and future directions in computer architecture.

IISWC 25th Anniversary

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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,...

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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. 

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Persistent Memory – A New Hope

Persistent Memory – A New Hope

The Cancellation of the Intel Optane Product Line Recently, Intel announced the cancellation of all Optane products, including both Optane SSDs and Optane Persistent Memory. The news came all of a sudden but was not totally unexpected, as Micron sold the 3D XPoint fab...

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