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Current status, needs, and challenges in Heterogeneous and Composable Memory from the HCM workshop (HPCA’23)

ACM Sigarch

Introduction Memory systems are evolving into heterogeneous and composable architectures. To understand the current status, needs, and challenges in HCM, the first workshop for Heterogeneous and Composable Memory was held with HPCA’23 on Feb 26, 2023. This article lays out the ideas and discussions shared at the workshop.

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Tackling the Pipeline Problem in the Architecture Research Community

ACM Sigarch

Computer architecture is an important and exciting field of computer science, which enables many other fields (eg. For those of us who pursued computer architecture as a career, this is well understood. In most curriculums, undergrad students do not have much exposure to computer architecture. Why is that? Lack of Exposure.

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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

APU: Accelerated Processing Unit is the AMD’s Fusion architecture that integrates both CPU and GPU on the same die. They introduced the architecture of coarse grain reconfigurable array (CGRA) for statically scheduled data flow computing in HOTCHIPS’17 and its software stack of compiler and linker in ICCAD’17. TFLOPS FP-64, 14.8

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Sustainable Web Development Strategies Within An Organization

Smashing Magazine

For example, changing our database architecture to be more efficient could save on server costs. Continue reading below ↓ Meet Smashing Online Workshops on front-end & UX , with practical takeaways, live sessions, video recordings and a friendly Q&A. Jump to online workshops ?. Hardware And E-Waste.

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MICRO 2019 Trip Report

ACM Sigarch

The technical program, put together by program chairs Tor Aamodt and Reetuparna Das , showcased key innovations across a wide range of computer architecture topics, from domain-specific accelerators to in/near-memory computing and from security to quantum computing. . This year’s MICRO had three inspiring keynote talks.

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

The Netflix TechBlog

There is a potential benefit in reusing the hardware in place for video compression/decompression. Image decoding in hardware may not be a primary motivator, given the peculiarities of OS dependent UI composition, and architectural implications of moving uncompressed image pixels around.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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