by Lisa Hsu on Apr 29, 2020 | Tags: Advice, Covid 19, Systems
It feels strange to be writing about architecture in a time of great global stress. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented disruption to our lives on a global scale. As I pondered what to write about for this blog post, I found myself coming back over and...
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by Payman Behnam and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on Apr 21, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Numerical Format
Motivation Number systems and computer arithmetics are essential for designing efficient hardware and software architecture. In particular, real-valued computation constitutes a crucial component in almost all forms of today’s computing systems from mobile devices to...
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by Lieven Eeckhout on Apr 10, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Policy, Reviewing
[Editors’ Note: We close our series on conferences/travel with a discussion of an alternative review model from the most recent ISCA PC Chair. We welcome your inputs and alternative proposals in the comments section.] Our review model is under stress because of...
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by James Larus, Luis Ceze, and Karin Strauss on Apr 8, 2020 | Tags: Conference, Networking, Travel, Virtual Meetings
This article originally appeared on the CACM blog. ASPLOS, the ACM Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, is an annual, ACM-sponsored conference that brings together roughly 300-350 researchers and students from the...
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by Dmitry Ponomarev on Mar 31, 2020 | Tags: Security
Security has recently emerged as a first-class design consideration and an active research area in computer architecture community, with most top-tier conferences dedicating one or more sessions to security topics. Best Paper Awards at two most recent MICRO...
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by Boris Grot on Mar 24, 2020 | Tags: Climate Action, Conference, Networking, Opinion, Policy, Travel, Virtual Meetings
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of conferences, including ASPLOS, DATE and ICLR, have abandoned their planned in-person gatherings and, instead, transitioned to virtual symposia. While painful, these are correct and responsible decisions given the...
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