by Emery Berger on Oct 12, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Architecture, Benchmarks, Programmability
The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. These, let’s call them metal languages, include FORTRAN...
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by Sophia Shao on Nov 4, 2019 | Tags: Architecture, Conference
Hundreds of computer architects convened in the beautiful city of Columbus, Ohio to celebrate the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Led by general chairs Radu Teodorescu and DK Panda from The Ohio State University, Columbus...
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by Mark Silberstein on Nov 1, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Architecture, Conference, Emerging Technology, Systems
This blog post gives a glimpse of the computer systems research papers presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) 2019, with an emphasis on systems that use new hardware architectures. USENIX ATC is a top-tier venue with a broad range of systems...
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by Adam Hastings, Simha Sethumadhavan on Oct 25, 2019 | Tags: Architecture, Security
When it comes to hardware support to mitigate software security issues, there is a significant gap between what is available in products today and known solutions. This article examines the history of architectural support, summarizes research philosophies, and delves...
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by Newsha Ardalani and Lena Olson on Apr 8, 2019 | Tags: Architecture, Democratization, Diversity, Education, Mentoring
Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. big-data processing, machine learning, quantum computing, and so on). For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well...
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