by Xiangyao Yu on Apr 13, 2022 | Tags: Cloud computing, Databases, Datacenters, Emerging Technology, Memory Disaggregation, Near Data Computing, Storage
The memory and storage hierarchy deepens in modern systems. To mitigate the low performance of memory/storage devices at the bottom of the hierarchy, near-data processing has been studied across different memory and storage devices as a means to reduce access latency...
Read more...
by Minsoo Rhu on Sep 9, 2021 | Tags: Datacenters, Emerging Technology, Interconnects, Memory, Memory Disaggregation, Processing-in-Memory
The Memory (Bandwidth and Capacity) Wall The “memory wall” problem, originally coined by Wulf and McKee in the 1990s, pointed out that the rate of improvement in microprocessor performance far exceeds the rate of improvement in DRAM memory speed. Such trend rendered...
Read more...
by Srilantha (Bobbie) Manne, Carole-Jean Wu, Parthasarathy (Partha) Ranganathan, Sarah Bird, Shane Greenstein on Aug 18, 2021 | Tags: Datacenters, Edge Devices, Emerging Technology, Environment, Inclusion, Societal Impact, Sustainability
Digital technologies have had an undeniable influence on humanity’s well-being, transforming all aspects of our lives. Underpinned by advances in process technology, computer architecture, software engineering, and artificial intelligence (AI), the rapid technological...
Read more...
by Natalie Enright Jerger on Jun 2, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, networks-on-chip
Twenty years ago research into networks-on-chip (NoCs) was launched with the publication of the foundational Dally and Towles paper, “Route Packets not Wires,” in the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in June 2001. In this blog post, I explore the evolution of...
Read more...
by Ananth Krishna Prasad and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on May 7, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning, Optical
In a previous blog post, we summarized some advances in optical computing that enable the implementation of low-energy optical-convolutional layers using phase masks and angle-sensitive pixels. Such approaches also present multiple challenges, such as lack of...
Read more...