by Emery Berger on May 10, 2022 | Tags: Accelerators, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
INTEL LAUNCHES NEW BITCOIN MINING CHIP, BLOCKSCALE Intel’s new bitcoin mining chip, the Intel Blockscale ASIC, will ship in Q3 2022 to select customers. (Bitcoin Magazine, April 2022) STOP! Before you read even one more sentence of this article: if you are currently...
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by Richard L. Sites on May 6, 2022 | Tags: Operating Systems, Page Management, Virtual Memory
Virtual memory was invented in a time of scarcity. Is it still a good idea? — Chuck Thacker 2010 Turing Lecture It is time for the computer industry to consider larger minimum page sizes. The ~4KB page size has been around since 1962. With cell phones and even...
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by Brandon Lucia on May 3, 2022 | Tags: Edge Devices, Energy Harvesting, Satellites, Space systems
Today it is possible, with a little bit of planning and some careful preparation, to send your computer architecture research into space. We are in the early days of a new space race that is making it possible to launch things to space more easily, more cheaply, and...
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by Jung Ho Ahn on Apr 28, 2022 | Tags: Bootstrapping, Emerging Application, Homomorphic Encryption, Privacy-preserving Computing
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is an emerging, computationally intensive application for computer architects. HE allows computations on encrypted data (called ciphertexts). In the machine-learning-as-a-service era, HE is highlighted as an enabler for privacy-preserving...
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by Elaheh Sadredini and Daniel Wong on Apr 18, 2022 | Tags: Conference, Virtual Meetings
Welcome to the trip report on the 28th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-28)! This marks the second fully-virtual HPCA (and hopefully last). With signs of the COVID-19 pandemic receding last November 2021, HPCA decided to...
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by Xiangyao Yu on Apr 13, 2022 | Tags: Cloud computing, Databases, Datacenters, Emerging Technology, Memory Disaggregation, Near Data Computing, Storage
The memory and storage hierarchy deepens in modern systems. To mitigate the low performance of memory/storage devices at the bottom of the hierarchy, near-data processing has been studied across different memory and storage devices as a means to reduce access latency...
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