by Mengjia Yan on Jan 27, 2023 | This blog post summarizes my recent keynote talk at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Secure and Private Execution Environment Design (SEED). The talk shares some of my humble opinions about the current microarchitecture security research landscape and points...
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by Dan Manjarres on Jan 12, 2023 | Tags: Benchmarks, experiments, Methodology, Networking
Networking performance is critical to distributed applications, and there are always efforts underway to improve the performance of datacenter network communication stacks. These efforts take a variety of approaches. For example, they may result in either new hardware...
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by Fred Chong and Kaitlin Smith on Jan 9, 2023 | Quantum Computers (QCs), once thought of as an elusive theoretical concept, are emerging. Today’s quantum devices, however, are still small prototypes since their computing infrastructure is in its early stages. Recent industry roadmaps have started to propose a...
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by Lieven Eeckhout on Dec 29, 2022 | “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” – Lord Kelvin The IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) just celebrated its 25th anniversary. This is an excellent opportunity to look back and forward—at what has happened over the past 25...
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by Richard L. Sites on Dec 19, 2022 | Tags: Architecture, Data Centers, Memory, Performance
When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing,...
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by Dmitry Ponomarev on Nov 8, 2022 | Microarchitectural and hardware security remained a very active research area in 2022. Top computer architecture conferences each had multiple sessions dedicated to security (4 sessions at ISCA’22, and 3 sessions each at MICRO’22, HPCA’22 and ASPLOS’22). However,...
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