ASPLOS 2019 Summary
Researchers in programming languages, operating systems, and computer architecture converged on Providence, RI this April for the 24th edition of ASPLOS. This year’s ASPLOS showed the strength of computer systems research in many areas, from cloud computing to...
A Case for the Scope of Reconfigurable Transistors in Computer Architecture
Reconfigurable field effect transistors (RFET) is expected to offer a lower transistor count and decreased area consumption compared to conventional CMOS. While the semiconductor industry is moving towards sub-10nm transistor technologies, silicon nanowires are...
Academics Should Build Their Own Computers to Advance Systems Research
This is a time of great interest in new hardware. Computers are becoming much more complex. The multicore era has given way to increasingly heterogeneous computing platforms. Modern SoCs contain a tremendous variety of processors, accelerators, and peripheral devices,...
Research: To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before
The basic premise of research is to do something new — to boldly go where no one has gone before. This is a daunting task, especially for those who are just entering graduate school and are new to research. How exactly does one come up with these cool ideas? How...
In-Network Computing
Introduction In-network computing is a new research area that has emerged over the last few years. In-network computing, also known as In-network computation or NetCompute, refers to the execution of programs typically running on end-hosts within network devices....
A Checklist Manifesto for Empirical Evaluation: A Preemptive Strike Against a Replication Crisis in Computer Science
In 2009, Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, published The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, describing his experience using checklists to reduce the risk of errors. Gawande observed that a number of serious...
Early Measurements of Intel’s 3DXPoint Persistent Memory DIMMs
Editors Note: This is the second of two independent posts on the performance of Intel’s new memory technology. For the last ten years, researchers have been anticipating the arrival of commercially available, scalable non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technologies...
Using Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for In-memory Graph Analytics
Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules are like DRAM in form factor and can be configured as volatile main memory, persistent memory or as a combination.
Tackling the Pipeline Problem in the Architecture Research Community
Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. big-data processing, machine learning, quantum computing, and so on). For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well...Subscribe
