Archive of posts tagged: Computer Architecture
All in on MatMul? Don’t Put All Your Tensors in One Basket!
Matrix multiplication dominates AI hardware and research. Betting everything on MatMul risks an innovation monoculture — it’s time to diversify our compute bets.
A Computer Architect’s Guide to Designing Abstractions for Intelligent Systems
“The growing complexity of intelligent systems can outpace the ability of conventional computing abstractions to support them effectively.” IET REACH 2024, Amir Yazdanbakhsh. I came across this observation by Edsger Dijkstra recently while scrolling X, and...
A Virtual Interview with John Hennessy and David Patterson
Prof. John Hennessy and Prof. David Patterson received the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry”. I used to read many...
Battle for Secure Caches: Attacks and Defenses on Randomized Caches
There is a battle ongoing in the realm of secure caches. Cache side-channels are a serious security problem as they allow an attacker to monitor a victim program’s execution and leak sensitive data like encryption keys, confidential IP, etc. A potent class of such...Subscribe
