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 Payman Behnam and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on Oct 11, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Memory, Optical
The memory wall has been a crucial power and performance bottleneck for computing systems. The growing gap between processor and memory speeds limits the energy-efficiency and performance of almost all forms of computing systems. As technology scales down, the speed...
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by Mark D. Hill on Aug 23, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning
This week Cerebras announced a bold design to accelerate deep neural networks with silicon that is not cut into chips. AI and Moore’s Law: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much in the news for what it can do today and the promise of what it can do tomorrow (CCC/AAAI...
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by Steve Swanson on Aug 8, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Memory, non-volatile, Persistent, Programmability, Storage
On July 22-23rd, UC San Diego’s Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) hosted the first Persistent Programming In Real Life (PIRL). PIRL is a new meeting devoted to gathering and sharing real-world, practical expertise...
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by Ananth Krishna Prasad, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on May 16, 2019 | Tags: Configurable Logic, Emerging Technology
Reconfigurable field effect transistors (RFET) is expected to offer a lower transistor count and decreased area consumption compared to conventional CMOS. While the semiconductor industry is moving towards sub-10nm transistor technologies, silicon nanowires are...
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