Archive of posts tagged: Hardware
A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators
In the workshop on Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems (Grand Challenges) co-located with ASPLOS 2018, Dr. Hillery Hunter from IBM and I co-organized a panel discussion on “Augmenting Human Abilities/AI”. During the discussion,...
Hardware Security
Two high impact microarchitectural timing attacks were disclosed yesterday. (https://nyti.ms/2EOX03d). 10000 ft overview: This is a very intricate attack but the root cause is unflushed speculative state from the cache resulting in a timing variations. Apparently the...
Open-Source Hardware: Stone Soups and Not Stone Statues, Please
Open-source software has become so entrenched in the software development ecosystem that major services (e.g., the Facebook cloud service) and products (e.g., the Android mobile operating system) rely almost exclusively upon open-source components and tools. This...
Memory that never forgets
Memory architecture is a key component of modern computer systems. Memory hierarchy importance increases with the advances in microprocessor performance. Traditional memory hierarchy design consists of embedded memory (such as SRAM and embedded DRAM) for on-chip...Subscribe
