by José F. Martínez on Jun 29, 2020 | Tags: Conference, ISCA, Virtual Meetings
On March 26, ISCA’20 general co-chair José Duato and I announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference would switch from an in-person event in Valencia (Spain) to a purely virtual one. An intense two-month pivot followed, whose outcome was ISCA’s...
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by Christina Delimitrou on Jun 24, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Cloud computing, Datacenters, ISCA
If you were one of the 1700 attendees of the first virtual ISCA last week, you hopefully got a chance to call in to one or more of this year’s mini-panels. Spread across 3 days and many timezones, ISCA hosted 12 mini-panels in total, which ranged in topics from...
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by The SIGARCH Executive Committee on Jun 22, 2020 | Tags: ACM SIGARCH, Ethics, Policy, Reviewing
The suicide of University of Florida student and ISCA’19 author Huixiang Chen a year ago shook our research community to the core. Everyone on SIGARCH’s Executive Committee mourns Huixiang on the first anniversary of his death. In connection with this tragedy, and...
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by Dmitry Ponomarev on Jun 9, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Security
In an earlier blog post, we argued that computer architects working on security problems should follow security conferences. In this post, we highlight some of the recent results from this year’s events that may be of interest to our community. While security...
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by Elba Garza on Jun 4, 2020 | Tags: Academia, Diversity, People
There is a joke that says torture is attending a party where you don’t know anyone present. Now, that sentiment may be hyperbolic, but it has an element of truth — as an undergraduate student attending my first computer architecture conference, I absolutely felt...
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by Mark D. Hill on May 26, 2020 | Tags: Computer Architecture, Policy, Visioning
TL;DR: This post reviews some successful visioning in computer architecture and related fields. It argues why visioning is necessary for our field to flourish and discusses how the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has facilitated some of this. Visioning is...
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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 Jae W. Lee on May 18, 2020 | Tags: People
Sang Lyul Min, a Professor of CSE at Seoul National University (SNU), passed away on February 24th after bravely fighting pancreatic cancer for over two years. He was a general co-chair of ISCA 2016 held in Seoul, South Korea, and subsequently served on the steering...
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by Minsoo Rhu on May 14, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning
To meet machine learning (ML) practitioners’ insatiable demand for higher processing power, computer architects have been at the forefront of developing accelerated computing solutions for ML that fundamentally changed the landscape of the computing industry. Given...
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by Vijay Nagarajan, Boris Grot, Vasilis Gavrielatos, Antonis Katsarakis on May 12, 2020 | Tags: Coherence, Consistency, Datacenters, Distributed Systems, Key-value-stores, Replication, Shared Memory
One of the long-standing debates in computer systems is the shared nothing vs shared memory debate. Should parallel computers provide the illusion of shared memory or should they do away with support for sharing? The debate has seen a resurgence with the rise of...
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