by Minsoo Rhu on Sep 9, 2021 | Tags: Datacenters, Emerging Technology, Interconnects, Memory, Memory Disaggregation, Processing-in-Memory
The Memory (Bandwidth and Capacity) Wall The “memory wall” problem, originally coined by Wulf and McKee in the 1990s, pointed out that the rate of improvement in microprocessor performance far exceeds the rate of improvement in DRAM memory speed. Such trend rendered...
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by Jonathan Baker and Fred Chong on Aug 31, 2021 | Tags: Quantum Computing
Despite quantum computing (QC) being an emerging technology, it is critical to consider new emerging technologies for this paradigm. Current machines, constructed from superconducting transmons or trapped ions, have demonstrated impressive success recently but it is...
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by Srilantha (Bobbie) Manne, Carole-Jean Wu, Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan, Sarah Bird, Shane Greenstein on Aug 18, 2021 | Tags: Datacenters, Edge Devices, Emerging Technology, Environment, Inclusion, Societal Impact, Sustainability
Digital technologies have had an undeniable influence on humanity’s well-being, transforming all aspects of our lives. Underpinned by advances in process technology, computer architecture, software engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI), the rapid technological...
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by Tim Rogers and Mahmoud Khairy on Aug 10, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Benchmarks, Machine Learning, Systems
At its core, all engineering is science optimized (or perverted) by economics. As academics in computer science and engineering, we have a symbiotic relationship with industry. Still, it is often necessary for us to peel back the marketing noise and understand...
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by Lisa Hsu on Aug 5, 2021 | As architects, we have heard the drumbeat about the impending end of Moore’s Law for at least a few decades, and in more recent years, the end of Dennard scaling. It is this latter phenomenon that has been extremely impactful to the power consumption of the...
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by Christos Kozyrakis and Emery Berger on Jul 30, 2021 | Tags: ASPLOS, Conferences, extended abstract, program committees, Review, Reviewing
Background When we started planning the ASPLOS’21 program committee in Spring 2020, we asked ourselves what we could do to make the review process better for everyone. In our opinion, the most impactful improvement would be to increase the signal available for each...
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