by T. N. Vijaykumar on Aug 28, 2017 | Tags: Conference
I have been saying that over-positive PC (OPPC) members’ high scores mess up the paper rankings, the coverage of online discussions (lower-score papers are ignored), and the discussion order at the PC meeting. Previously I had analyzed only the pre-rebuttal score distributions but not the impact on the actual outcomes. Now, I have statistical evidence of the impact.
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by Jignesh Patel on Aug 22, 2017 | Tags: Databases, Performance
… today it is hard for software developers to drill down to determine the root causes of performance fluctuations.
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by Keshav Pingali on Jul 31, 2017 | Tags: Machine Learning, Systems, Vision
I am grateful to everyone who responded to my post in April that asked why machine learning has had limited impact on computer systems research. In addition to commenting on this website and sending me email, people discussed this question at length on reddit and...
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by Vijay Janapa Reddi on Jul 21, 2017 | Tags: Hardware, Mobile, Smartphone
The smartphone is the most pervasive mobile computing device on the planet. There are over 2.1 billion devices worldwide, and this number is rising sharply as smartphone penetration increases in emerging markets like China and India. By 2020, there will be 6 billion...
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by Steve Swanson on Jul 10, 2017 | Tags: Memory, Persistent, Programming, Storage
For decades, memory systems have relied on DRAM for capacity, SRAMs for speed and then turned programmers loose with malloc(), free(), and pthreads to build an amazing array of useful, carefully tuned, composable, and remarkably useful data structures. However, these...
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by Radu Teodorescu on Jul 2, 2017 | Tags: Conference
The 44th ISCA just wrapped up. This year it was held in Toronto, which proved to be a great location owning in no small part to great local organizing and participation. I find attending ISCA to be the best way to quickly read the pulse of the broader Computer...
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