Month: April 2018

SmoothOperator: reducing power fragmentation and improving power utilization in large-scale datacenters

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SmoothOperator: reducing power fragmentation and improving power utilization in large-scale datacenters Hsu et al., ASPLOS'18 What do you do when your theory of constraints analysis reveals that power has become your major limiting factor? That is, you can’t add more servers to your existing datacenter(s) without blowing your power budget, and you don’t want to ... Continue Reading

WSMeter: A performance evaluation methodology for Google’s production warehouse-scale computers

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WSMeter: A performance evaluation methodology for Google’s production warehouse-scale computers Lee et al., ASPLOS'18 (The link above is to the ACM Digital Library, if you don’t have membership you should still be able to access the paper pdf by following the link from The Morning Paper blog post directly.) How do you know how well ... Continue Reading

The architectural implications of autonomous driving: constraints and acceleration

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The architectural implications of autonomous driving: constraints and acceleration Lin et al., ASPLOS'18 Today’s paper is another example of complementing CPUs with GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs in order to build a system with the desired performance. In this instance, the challenge is to build an autonomous self-driving car! Architecting autonomous driving systems is particularly challenging ... Continue Reading

Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration on long read assembly

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Darwin: a genomics co-processor provides up to 15,000x acceleration on long read assembly Turakhia et al., ASPLOS'18 With the slow demise of Moore’s law, hardware accelerators are needed to meet the rapidly growing computational requirements of X. For this paper, X = genomics, and genomic data is certainly growing fast: doubling every 7 months and ... Continue Reading

Securing wireless neurostimulators

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Securing wireless neurostimulators Marin et al., CODASPY'18 There’s a lot of thought-provoking material in this paper. The subject is the security of a class of Implantable Medical Devices (IMD) called neurostimulators. These are devices implanted under the skin near the clavicle, and connected directly to the patient’s brain through several leads. They can help to ... Continue Reading