by Jayashree Mohan on Jun 8, 2022 | Tags: Accelerators, GPUs, Machine Learning, Systems
Machine Learning (ML) training is an important workload in enterprise clusters and cloud data centers today. Products like virtual assistants, chatbots, and web search which are an integral part of our life now, are empowered by the innovations in ML and AI research....
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by Biswabandan Panda on May 31, 2022 | Tags: Academia, Microarchitecture, Research
The day is April 14, 2023. The MICRO deadline is just a few hours away, and micro-architects are skeptical about their MICRO submissions. Why? There are only a few sessions on microarchitecture from MICRO 2018 to MICRO 2022. Is this the end of microarchitecture...
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by Jaime H. Moreno, Hubertus Franke, Paul Crumley, Mengmei Ye on May 25, 2022 | Tags: Composable Systems, Datacenters, Security, Virtualization
Sharing computing resources in a microprocessor among multiple tenants (users, tasks) through virtualization, as currently done in datacenters, edge, and embedded environments, conflicts with the need to provide security, isolation, and performance stability. This...
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by Martha Kim and Moin Qureshi on May 23, 2022 | Tags: Conferences, Review, Reviewing, tcca
Scientific progress relies on sound reviewing processes. The integrity of our review process is paramount, and it rests on our handling of ethical concerns and conflicts of interest. These issues have been compounded by the rapid growth in the computer architecture...
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by Neeraja Yadwadkar on May 12, 2022 | Tags: Cloud computing, Datacenters, Machine Learning
It was more than 10 years ago that I first started studying machine learning (ML). Serendipitously, I ended up leveraging ML techniques developed for biological sequence analysis for optimizing storage systems. In the recent past, I have focused on optimizing and...
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by Emery Berger on May 10, 2022 | Tags: Accelerators, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
INTEL LAUNCHES NEW BITCOIN MINING CHIP, BLOCKSCALE Intel’s new bitcoin mining chip, the Intel Blockscale ASIC, will ship in Q3 2022 to select customers. (Bitcoin Magazine, April 2022) STOP! Before you read even one more sentence of this article: if you are currently...
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by Richard L. Sites on May 6, 2022 | Tags: Operating Systems, Page Management, Virtual Memory
Virtual memory was invented in a time of scarcity. Is it still a good idea? — Chuck Thacker 2010 Turing Lecture It is time for the computer industry to consider larger minimum page sizes. The ~4KB page size has been around since 1962. With cell phones and even...
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by Brandon Lucia on May 3, 2022 | Tags: Edge Devices, Energy Harvesting, Satellites, Space systems
Today it is possible, with a little bit of planning and some careful preparation, to send your computer architecture research into space. We are in the early days of a new space race that is making it possible to launch things to space more easily, more cheaply, and...
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by Jung Ho Ahn on Apr 28, 2022 | Tags: Bootstrapping, Emerging Application, Homomorphic Encryption, Privacy-preserving Computing
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is an emerging, computationally intensive application for computer architects. HE allows computations on encrypted data (called ciphertexts). In the machine-learning-as-a-service era, HE is highlighted as an enabler for privacy-preserving...
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by Elaheh Sadredini and Daniel Wong on Apr 18, 2022 | Tags: Conference, Virtual Meetings
Welcome to the trip report on the 28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-28)! This marks the second fully-virtual HPCA (and hopefully last). With signs of the COVID-19 pandemic receding last November 2021, HPCA decided to...
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