Celebrating 50 years of ACM SIGARCH: Building a Computer Architecture Community
Babak Falsafi is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL, in Lausanne, and has served as ACM SIGARCH Chair since 2019. David A. Wood is Professor Emeritus in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and served as ACM SIGARCH Chair 2011-2015.
What Are the Most Cited ISCA Papers?
I was recently talking to my UC Berkeley colleague Sophia Shao about the 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) on June 17, and we discussed which papers are highly cited. The conversation inspired me to try to find the 50 most cited papers from...
Architecture 2.0: Why Computer Architects Need a Data-Centric AI Gymnasium
Machine learning driven computer architecture tools and methods have the potential to drastically shape the future of computer architecture. The question is: how can we lay the foundation to effectively usher in this era? In this post, we delve into the transformative...
Is It Time To Give Memory Allocator Its Own Room In The House?
Implications of Machine Learning (ML), be the training or inference serving, have steered systems and architecture research accordingly. A significant amount of work is happening in the Systems for ML space ranging from building efficient systems for data...
Interactively Translating Unstructured Natural Language to Temporal Logics with nl2spec
Acknowledgements: This blogpost discusses joint work between the author and Matthias Cosler, Christopher Hahn, Daniel Mendoza, and Frederik Schmitt. Introduction A rigorous formalization of desired system requirements is indispensable when performing any verification...
Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)
Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging...
A Brief Guide to Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Computer Architects: Part II
In addition to the commencement of public releases by companies participating in DARPA’s Data Protection in Virtual Environments (DPRIVE) program, such as TREBUCHET, BASALISC, and HERACLES, there has been significant progress in the field of FHE (Fully...
ASPLOS’23 Program Chairs’ Recap
For 2023, ASPLOS embarked on a new multi-deadline review model. Multiple deadlines are meant to encourage authors to submit their papers when ready, to facilitate the selection of some papers for revision and to distribute the reviewer workload better. In this post,...
Review of Recent Research on Quantum Computer Architecture Security
Introduction Quantum computer architecture security research is a new and active research field. As the new year and semester is under way, this article looks back at the recent quantum computer architecture security papers published or posted online in the prior year...Subscribe
