Archive of posts tagged: Architecture
Looking Ahead Beyond CMOS
Over the last decade, flagship processors from Intel and AMD have been eking out only marginal cross-generational single threaded (ST) performance gains. Instead, the focus has been on boosting aggregate performance by increasing core count. While throughput...
Approaches to System Security: Using Cryptographic Techniques to Minimize Trust
This is the first post in a series of posts on different approaches to systems security especially as they apply to hardware and architectural security. In this post, we will consider the use of mathematics/cryptography as an approach to improving systems security....
Sacrificing Interoperability for Information Security: Containing Data Loss and Malware Propagation
Using hardware that does not provide software and data interoperability could address security problems.
A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators
In the workshop on Inter-Disciplinary Research Challenges in Computer Systems (Grand Challenges) co-located with ASPLOS 2018, Dr. Hillery Hunter from IBM and I co-organized a panel discussion on “Augmenting Human Abilities/AI”. During the discussion,...Subscribe
