by Ana Klimovic on Feb 2, 2021 | Tags: Cloud computing, Machine Learning, Storage, Systems
Machine learning (ML) — and in particular deep learning — applications have sparked the development of specialized software frameworks and hardware accelerators. Frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow offer a clean abstraction for developing and running...
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by Saurabh Bagchi on Nov 30, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Advice, Policy, Systems
This post takes a personalized, and hence subjective, look at the joys of doing leading edge computer systems research and development. It then delves into some of the perils of this activity, including bean counting, aka bibliometic indices that are not always kind to the work in this field. I then give some high-level suggestions for how to skirt the perils and embrace the joys.
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by Lisa Hsu on Oct 20, 2020 | Tags: Advice, Datacenters, Systems
I once attended a talk by Yoky Matsuoka when I was young – so young, in fact, that I don’t remember when or where the talk was. What I do remember is her telling the story of designing a prosthetic hand. She had encountered previous designs where the...
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by Timothy Roscoe on May 21, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Conference, Mentoring, Opinion, Policy, Systems, Travel, Virtual Meetings
I attended Eurosys 2020 last week. It was due to be held in Heraklion, in Crete, and due to travel conflicts I was not planning to attend. However, since all my travel has been cancelled, and Switzerland was in its 7th week of lockdown, and Eurosys went entirely...
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by Lisa Hsu on Apr 29, 2020 | Tags: Advice, Covid 19, Systems
It feels strange to be writing about architecture in a time of great global stress. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruption to our lives on a global scale. As I pondered what to write about for this blog post, I found myself coming back over and...
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