Archive of posts tagged: Architecture
Fast memcpy, A System Design
When I worked at Google, fleet-wide profiling revealed that 25-35% of all CPU time was spent just moving bytes around: memcpy, strcmp, copying between user and kernel buffers in network and disk I/O, hidden copy-on-write in soft page faults, checksumming, compressing,...Security of Quantum Computer Architectures
Introduction When thinking of security and quantum computers, many people may automatically think of using quantum computers for attacks on classical computers, by use of the Grover’s and Shor’s algorithms running on the quantum computers to break a number of existing...
From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance
The focus of most published research in architecture is on applications implemented in high-performance, “close-to-the-metal” languages essentially developed before computers got fast. These, let’s call them metal languages, include FORTRAN...
MICRO 2019 Trip Report
Hundreds of computer architects convened in the beautiful city of Columbus, Ohio to celebrate the 52nd Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Led by general chairs Radu Teodorescu and DK Panda from The Ohio State University, Columbus...Subscribe
