by David Patterson on Jul 15, 2020 | Tags: Academia, ACM SIGARCH, Conference, Industry, ISCA, Policy, Reviewing
Problem: The Disappearance of Product Papers from ISCA Industry research groups in computer architecture (like at IBM, Intel, and NVIDIA) have as much support for architectural exploration and publication as academic groups, but product groups certainly don’t. Few...
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by Srilatha Manne and Muntaquim Chowdhury on Nov 11, 2019 | Tags: Advice, Conference, Industry
Processor architecture has incorporated many research ideas from the academic community, from SMT to cache allocation policies. In this article, the question we are trying to answer is what makes an idea take hold. What is it about a paper that makes it interesting to...
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by Carole-Jean Wu, David Brooks, Udit Gupta, Hsien-Hsin Lee, and Kim Hazelwood on Nov 7, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Benchmarks, Industry, Machine Learning
We live in the era of machine learning. As Geoff Hinton and Yann LeCun emphasized in their recent Turing lecture, the rise of machine learning (ML) was in great part facilitated by cheap and easy to use high-performance computing that has allowed ML models to be...
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by Emery Berger on Oct 29, 2019 | Tags: Advice, Industry, Mentoring, Systems
Five easy pieces of advice to getting your work to have real-world impact: not guaranteed to get your work adopted, but will definitely increase the odds of luck being on your side.
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by David Brooks on Oct 18, 2018 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Industry, Programmability, Specialization
It isn’t every day that a major company throws in the towel on Moore’s Law, so it is worth noting the announcement by GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) to halt development of the 7nm process node. With this announcement, there are now only three major vendors —...
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