by Natalie Enright Jerger and Kim Hazelwood on Sep 28, 2017 | Tags: Conference, Diversity
Part One: We’re Just Going to Leave This Here TL;DR – In part one of our series on gender diversity within the subdiscipline of computer architecture, we present some data that provides signal on where our community stands today with respect to gender diversity....
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by Steve Reinhardt on Sep 23, 2017 | Tags: People
It is with great regret that I pass on the news that our colleague and friend Nathan Binkert is no longer with us. Nate passed away unexpectedly on September 21st after collapsing at the gym. Nate was a computer scientist of remarkable breadth, equally at home...
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by Reetuparna Das on Sep 21, 2017 | Tags: Methodology, Modelling, Prototyping, Simulation
In this blog article we touch the subject of architectural evaluation methodology. We took the effort to interview some experts and collect opinions from experts on this subject. While everyone raises unique points, there seems to be some consensus.. The picture...
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by David Patterson and Andrew Waterman on Sep 18, 2017 | Tags: Architecture, CPU, ISA, Parallelism
In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and x86. We decided to share those insights in this blog, based on Chapter 8 of our...
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by Mark Silberstein on Sep 14, 2017 | Tags: Architecture, Operating Systems, Virtualization
The efficiency of Operating Systems (OSes) has always been in the spotlight of systems researchers, ever since the seminal Dijkstra’s THE multiprogramming system in early 60s. But the reason for this obsession is not entirely obvious. While the OS is commonly...
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