by Dimitrios Skarlatos on May 19, 2026 | Tags: AI Agents, Hardware-Software Co-design
Architecture & Systems are Changing: The Architect’s Role in the Era of Agentic Co-Design The AI datacenter stack is built on hardware-software contracts and abstractions that were never designed for the workloads datacenters now serve. Memory systems strain...
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by Di Wu, Zhewen Pan, Joshua San Miguel on May 13, 2026 | Tags: AI hardware, Parallelism
TL;DR: The history of parallel computing is a history of shifting what we put at the center of the computer. The first axis, control-level parallelism (CLP), is control-centric and schedules around the program counter: it gave us the high-performance computing (HPC)...
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by Helen Wright, Jeff Dean, Mark D. Hill, and Dave Patterson on May 4, 2026 | Tags: AI, Computer Systems
Editor’s Note: this post is a republication of CRA-I post available at: https://cra.org/industry/2026/04/27/how-ai-will-reshape-computer-systems-by-2035-a-jeffersonian-dinner-in-san-francisco-about-our-10000x-future/ CRA-Industry (CRA-I) recently continued its...
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by Digvijay Singh on Apr 29, 2026 | Tags: Data Prefetcher, Memory Wall
This article continues (and concludes) the discussion on the proceedings of DPC-4, covering the remaining four contestants and a summary of the trends observed in all eight prefetchers presented in the championship. Similar to Part I, we focus on how each prefetch...
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by Digvijay Singh on Apr 27, 2026 | Tags: Data Prefetcher, Memory Wall
This article is the first in a two-part series that summarizes the key contributions of 4th Data Prefetching Championship (DPC-4), held in conjunction with the 32nd iteration of HPCA in 2026. While discussing innovative data prefetching techniques presented in this...
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by Yuan Liu, Zihan Chen, Shubdeep Mohapatra, Jim Furches, Zheng (Eddy) Zhang, Huiyang Zhou on Apr 20, 2026 | Tags: Quantum Computing
Hybrid continuous-discrete-variable (CV-DV) quantum computing combines oscillators and qubits to tackle problems that are difficult for either model alone, from bosonic simulation to quantum error correction. At ASPLOS 2026, our tutorial introduced the foundations,...
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