From FLOPS to IOPS: The New Bottlenecks of Scientific Computing
More than a decade ago, the pioneering computer scientist Jim Gray envisioned a fourth paradigm of scientific discovery that uses computers to solve data-intensive scientific problems. Today, scientific discovery, whether observational, in-silico or experimental,...
‘Twas the Night Before ISCA
’Twas the night before ISCA, when all through the lab every grad student working, no sleep had they had. I’d written the intro with obsessive care, In hopes that good data soon would be there. The graphs were each nestled snug in their sections, Set to overpower...
What the New Trends in Cloud Software Mean for Architects
The past five years have seen a significant change in the way cloud applications are designed. In place of large monolithic services, where the functionality of an entire application like a social network or search engine was implemented as a single codebase that...
I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution
We are pleased to share the results of a DARPA ISAT study, I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution, arguing for new hardware/software interfaces to enable the revolution promised by hardware specialization. Advances in hardware specialization...
Rising Stars in Computer Architecture (RISC-A) Workshop Recap
A summary of the second iteration of the Rising Stars in Computer Architecture (RISC-A) Workshop.
A Pop Quiz for Computer Architecture Reviewers
A pop quiz for reviewers.
From Research To Reality
Processor architecture has incorporated many research ideas from the academic community, from SMT to cache allocation policies. In this article, the question we are trying to answer is what makes an idea take hold. What is it about a paper that makes it interesting to...
Deep Learning: It’s Not All About Recognizing Cats and Dogs
We live in the era of machine learning. As Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun emphasized in their recent Turing lecture, the rise of machine learning (ML) was in great part facilitated by cheap and easy to use high-performance computing that has allowed ML models to be...
MICRO 2019 Trip Report
Hundreds of computer architects convened in the beautiful city of Columbus, Ohio to celebrate the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Led by general chairs Radu Teodorescu and DK Panda from The Ohio State University, Columbus...Subscribe
