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Neural Acceleration For General-Purpose Approximate Programs
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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...

Learning Your Limit
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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...

Dissection
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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.

JMB
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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...

Neuroscience Meets Cryptography
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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.

TaintDroid
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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...

TSV Stress-Aware Full-Chip Mechanical Reliability Analysis and Optimization For 3D IC
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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...

And Then There Were None
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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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Technical Perspective: Centip3De Demonstrates More Than Moore...

Exponentially increasing transistor integration also demands more interconnections, which have started hitting fundamental limits. The Centip3De design demonstrates...

Centip3De
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Centip3De: A Many-Core Prototype Exploring 3D Integration and Near-Threshold Computing

This paper evaluates the use of three-dimensional integration to reduce global interconnect by adding multiple layers of silicon with vertical connections between...

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Technical Perspective: The Ray-Tracing Engine That Could

It has been an open question whether it is possible to build GPU-targeted high-performance software systems that are themselves programmable. "GPU Ray Tracing" shows...

GPU Ray Tracing
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GPU Ray Tracing

The NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine builds on the key observation that most ray tracing algorithms can be implemented using a small set of programmable operations...

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Technical Perspective: Video Quality Assessment in the Age of Internet Video

With video delivery, it appears that once again "the Internet changes everything." In this changed environment, what measures of quality are most relevant, and...
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