by Khari Douglas on Sep 25, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Machine Learning
[Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the blogs of the HLF and the CCC and is re-posted here with permission.] As part of the first day of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) David A. Patterson, who won the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award “for...
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by Spyros Blanas on Sep 15, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Databases, Memory
GPUs have outgrown their role as dedicated graphics processing units and are now a prominent, mainstream platform for general-purpose parallel computing. Evidence of the growing popularity of GPUs can be seen in cloud vendors offering GPU instances for cents per hour,...
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by Akanksha Jain and Arpit Joshi on Sep 10, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Networking, Reviewing
This blog post recounts the first program committee meeting experiences of two recent PhDs. Akanksha Jain My first experience being a PC member was for HPCA 2019. I was quite nervous going in, but I have to say that the overall experience was one of the most enjoyable...
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by Caroline Trippel on Aug 12, 2020 | Tags: ISCA, Security, Verification
Prof. Christopher Fletcher (UIUC), Dr. Frank McKeen (Intel), Prof. Edward Suh (Cornell), and I served as panelists for the 2020 ISCA Security Mini-Panel. This blog post reflects on our panel discussion. The security of modern applications is underpinned by the...
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by Prasanna Harpanhalli on Aug 3, 2020 | Tags: android, fragmentation, Mobile
With over 2 billion devices running Android, it is one of the most used operating systems on the planet. Android development follows software product lines approach and so is used in multiple business contexts. As Android supports devices of different form factors and...
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by Michael O'Boyle on Jul 27, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Compilers
TL;DR: Heterogeneous hardware innovation is held back by language support. Compiler researchers need to rethink their role and embrace ideas from Software Engineering, Natural Language Procesing and Machine Learning A 50 year contract For more than 50 years we...
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