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Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap For Parallel Computing Applications?
Current processor trends of integrating more cores with SIMD units have made it more to extract performance from applications. It is believed that traditional...
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Technical Perspective: The Specialization Trend in Computer Hardware
Specialization improves energy-efficiency in computing but only makes economic sense if there is significant demand. A balance can often be found by designing...
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Convolution Engine: Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility in Specialized Computing
We present the Convolution Engine (CE) — a programmable processor specialized for the convolution-like data-flow prevalent in computational photography, computer...
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Technical Perspective: Big Data Needs Approximate Computing
"Neural Acceleration for General-Purpose Approximate Programs" demonstrates the significant advantages in cost, power, and latency through approximate computing...
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Neural Acceleration For General-Purpose Approximate Programs
This paper describes a new approach that uses machine learning-based transformations to accelerate approximation-tolerant programs.
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Technical Perspective: Rethinking Caches For Throughput Processors
As GPUs have become mainstream parallel processing engines, many applications targeting GPUs now have data locality more amenable to traditional caching. The...
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Learning Your Limit: Managing Massively Multithreaded Caches Through Scheduling
This paper studies the effect of accelerating highly parallel workloads with significant locality on a massively multithreaded GPU.
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Technical Perspective: Attacking a Problem from the Middle
"Dissection: A New Paradigm for Solving Bicomposite Search Problems," by Itai Dinur, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, and Adi Shamir, presents an elegant new algorithm...
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Dissection: A New Paradigm For Solving Bicomposite Search Problems
In this paper, we introduce the new notion of bicomposite search problems, and show that they can be solved with improved combinations of time and space complexities...
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Technical Perspective: The Power of Joint Multiuser Beamforming
Having multiple Wi-Fi Access Points with an overlapping coverage area operating on the same frequency may not be a problem anymore.
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JMB: Scaling Wireless Capacity with User Demands
JMB, a joint multiuser beamforming system, enables independent access points (APs) to beamform their signals and communicate with their clients on the same channel...
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Technical Perspective: The Interplay of Neuroscience and Cryptography
An ideal scheme for password storage would enable a password with more than 20 bits of randomness to be input and output from the brain of a human being who is...
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Neuroscience Meets Cryptography: Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks
We present a defense against coercion attacks using the concept of implicit learning from cognitive psychology. We use a carefully crafted computer game to allow...
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Technical Perspective: Smartphone Security 'Taint' What It Used to Be
The TaintDroid project takes a runtime taint tracking approach toward analyzing Android apps.
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TaintDroid: An Information Flow Tracking System For Real-Time Privacy Monitoring on Smartphones
Today's smartphone operating systems frequently fail to provide users with adequate control over and visibility into how third-party applications use their privacy...
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Technical Perspective: Silicon Stress
Moore's Law has been the mainstay of semiconductor electronics since the invention of the transistor and its application to the integrated circuit. Implicit in...
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TSV Stress-Aware Full-Chip Mechanical Reliability Analysis and Optimization For 3D IC
Three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) with through-silicon-via (TSV) is believed to offer new levels of efficiency, power, performance, and form-factor advantages...
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Technical Perspective: The Cleanest Garbage Collection
In quite a tour de force, the authors of the following paper have built a provably correct real-time garbage collector for reconfigurable hardware (field programmable...
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And Then There Were None: A Stall-Free Real-Time Garbage Collector For Reconfigurable Hardware
We present a garbage collector synthesized directly to hardware, capable of collecting a heap of uniform objects completely concurrently. These heaps are composed...
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