by Noa Zilberman on Apr 25, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Data center, Emerging Technology, Hardware, Networking, Performance, Programmability, Systems
Introduction In-network computing is a new research area that has emerged over the last few years. In-network computing, also known as In-network computation or NetCompute, refers to the execution of programs typically running on end-hosts within network devices....
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by Steve Swanson on Apr 15, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Memory, Persistent
Editors Note: This is the second of two independent posts on the performance of Intel’s new memory technology. For the last ten years, researchers have been anticipating the arrival of commercially available, scalable non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technologies...
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by Gurbinder Gill, Ramesh Peri and Keshav Pingali on Apr 11, 2019 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Graph algorithms, Memory, Persistent
Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules are like DRAM in form factor and can be configured as volatile main memory, persistent memory or as a combination.
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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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by David Brooks on Oct 18, 2018 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Industry, Programmability, Specialization
It isn’t every day that a major company throws in the towel on Moore’s Law, so it is worth noting the announcement by GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) to halt development of the 7nm process node. With this announcement, there are now only three major vendors —...
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