by Daniel S. Berger, David Brooks, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Mark D. Hill, Ricardo Bianchini, Carole-Jean Wu, Karin Strauss, Kali Frost, Jaylen Wang, Kevin Martins, Sharon Gillett, Esha Choukse, Dan Ernst, Rodrigo Fonseca, Kari Lio, Bhargavi Narayanasetty, Pratyush Patel, Celine Irvene, Akshitha Sriraman, George Porter, Alex Jones, Udit Gupta, Bilge Acun-Uyan, Kim Hazelwood, and Doug Carmean on Aug 3, 2023 | Tags: Accelerators, amd, apple, Architecture, Carbon emissions, Cloud computing, Datacenters, embodied carbon, intel, Measurements, nvidia, operational carbon, qualcomm, Sustainability, tsmc
A recent post raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon, while also controversially challenging the importance of embodied carbon. We rebut the arguments raised against using embodied carbon as a design metric and conclude by advocating for more research on reducing embodied carbon.
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by Andrew A. Chien on Jul 24, 2023 | Tags: Accelerators, amd, apple, Cloud computing, Datacenters, embodied carbon, intel, nvidia, operational carbon, qualcomm, Sustainability, tsmc
I. Embodied Carbon Recently, embodied carbon, defined as the Scope 3 GHG emissions that arise from the manufacturing processes that lead to computing electronics, has become popular as an architectural metric for sustainability. If you are considering it or using it,...
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by Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Vilas Sridharan, and Sankar Gurumurthy on Jul 17, 2023 | Tags: Architecture, Debugging, fault tolerance, faults
Overview Reliability is essential for computing. However, as technology nodes have scaled, there have been several fundamental physical challenges to overcome to provide the abstraction of reliability. One such challenge has been the emergence of marginal...
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by José Martínez on Jul 3, 2023 | Tags: 25, ISCA, retrospective
Dear members of the SIGARCH and TCCA communities, In 1998, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of ISCA, Guri Sohi put together a volume of selected papers and author retrospectives from 1973 through 1995 (ISCA-1 through ISCA-22) with help from several program...
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by Babak Falsafi and David A. Wood on Jun 19, 2023 |
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.
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by David Patterson on Jun 15, 2023 | Tags: Conference, conference design, Conferences, ISCA, people of systems and architecture, retrospective
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...
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