by Lisa Hsu and Suvinay Subramanian on Jun 11, 2025 | Tags: podcast
It’s hard to believe, but the Computer Architecture Podcast is now five years old. We released our very first episode on May 28, 2020, and just like that, we find ourselves at our five-year anniversary, preparing to release our 20th episode. We’ve both been so...
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by Arkaprava Basu, Natalia Gavrilenko, Keijo Heljanko, Reese Levine, Ajay Ashok Nayak, Hernan Luis Ponce de Leon, Tyler Sorensen and Haining Tong on Jun 6, 2025 | Tags: gpu, memory models
Context A recent MICRO 2024 article titled “Over-synchronization in GPU Programs” describes how eliminating redundant or coarser-grained (slower) synchronization in GPU programs can lead to significant gains in performance and introduces a tool called ScopeAdvice to...
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by Babak Falsafi on Jun 2, 2025 | Tags: Cloud computing, Data Centers, Energy-Efficiency, Methods, Sustainability
There has been a lively debate on Computer Architecture Today about whether we should focus our attention on computing’s embodied carbon or operational carbon. In recent years, there has also been a lot of concern about the growth of AI and its impact on both energy...
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