by Mark D. Hill on Mar 25, 2019 | Tags: Architecture, Methodology
With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. Part 1 previously discussed Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while this post (Part 2) presents the M/M/1 Queue.
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by Mark D. Hill on Mar 18, 2019 | Tags: Architecture, Methodology
With two blog posts, we argue for more use of simple models beyond Amdahl’s Law. This Part 1 discusses Bottleneck Analysis and Little’s Law, while Part 2 presents the M/M/1 Queue. Computer systems, from the Internet-of-Things devices to datacenters, are complex and...
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by Shaizeen Aga, Aasheesh Kolli on Dec 17, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, HPCA19, Mentoring, Networking, Workshop
“A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could”. — Zig Ziglar, renowned motivational speaker Good mentoring can have an outsized impact on the careers of students, especially during early stages of...
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by Nilesh Jain, Omesh Tickoo, Ravi Iyer on Dec 6, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Machine Learning, Vision
The tremendous growth in visual computing is fueled by the rapid increase in deployment of visual sensing (e.g. cameras) in many usages ranging from digital security/surveillance and automated retail (e.g. smart cameras & analytics) to interactive/immersive...
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by Srilatha (Bobbie) Manne, Muntaquim Chowdhury on Oct 25, 2018 | Tags: Architecture, Emerging Technology, Vision
Over the last decade, flagship processors from Intel and AMD have been eking out only marginal cross-generational single threaded (ST) performance gains. Instead, the focus has been on boosting aggregate performance by increasing core count. While throughput...
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