13 May 12

Congratulations to Tae Jun! Having received his BSE with departmental distinction in Fall 2011, he is participating in commencement and will continue his studies at Princeton.

9 May 12

Call for papers! Ben is serving on the ACM TACO review board as part of the HiPEAC conference, which has an interesting publication model.

28 April 12

Group dinner at Four Square!

25 Apr 12

IEEE Spectrum covers ARM versus Intel with mention of Xeons and Atoms for web search!

7 Apr 12

Congratulations to Krishna! Our paper on mobile DRAM for energy-proportional datacenters will appear at ISCA 2012.

20 Mar 12

Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee for the Fourth Workshop on Energy-Efficient Design (WEED) at ISCA. Deadline is Apr 2.

10 Feb 12

Ben talks about balanced machine design at the NSF Workshop on Cross-Layer Power Optimization and Management.

20 Jan 12

Marisabel talks about datacenter management at the Google GRAD CS Forum. Congrats to Marisabel on the invite!

14 Jan 12

Group dinner! Kicking off the new semester with Marisabel, Weidan, and Tae Jun at Chamas Churrascaria.

12 Jan 12

Ben is teaching a research seminar on energy-efficient computer systems. The course surveys efficiency from circuits to applications and everything in between.

11 Jan 12

John Cuffney joins the group for undergraduate research and independent study. Welcome!

16 Dec 11

Ben receives the NSF CAREER award!

12 Dec 11

Congratulations to Tae Jun Ham! He placed 1st in the Fall 2011 ECE Independent Study Poster Session.

9 Dec 11

The Lab seeks a post-doctoral researcher in parallel system architecture and graphics/image processing. Position available immediately. One year appointment with highly competitive compensation. Re-appointments subject to performance and funding. See application instructions.

5 Dec 11

Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee for the International Green Computing Conference. Deadline is Jan 20.

21 Nov 11

The Lab receives a Google research award to study emerging memory technologies!

26 Sep 11

Our study of inefficiencies in general-purpose chips is a CACM Research Highlight. Also see Chuck Moore's perspective. Congrats to Rehan and team!

13 Sep 11

Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee of ISPASS 2012. Deadline is Oct 3.

1 Sep 11

Michael Ansel joins the group for undergraduate research. Welcome!

26 Aug 11

See our comprehensive treatment of Atoms for Microsoft web search in the August issue of ACM TOCS.

31 July 11

Ben is teaching advanced computer architecture. Students interested in modern computer architecture and engineering should check it out!

22 July 11

Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee for HPCA 2012. We look forward to your papers!

18 July 11

Call for tutorials. Ben is the tutorials chair for ISCA 2012. Deadline is December 16th.

13 July 11

Call for papers. Ben is on the program committee (architecture track) for IPDPS 2012. Consider participating!

28 June 11

Call for papers. Ben is on the External Review Committee for ASPLOS 2012. Please consider submitting!

31 May 11

Thanks to the participants of the Workshop on Emerging Supercomputing Technologies, we had an interesting program and an engaging discussion.

6 May 11

End-of-semester group dinner with Marisabel and Weidan at Four Square. Congrats on a strong finish to the academic year!

10 Apr 11

Thanks to the IBM Austin Research Lab and Jiayuan Meng of Argonne, we had two highly successful tutorials at ISPASS.

15 Feb 11

Call for papers. Ben is co-organizing the Workshop on Emerging Supercomputing Technologies at the 25th International Conference on Supercomputing. Please consider submitting!

12 Jan 11

Marisabel Guevara and Weidan Wu join the group as CS and ECE PhD students, respectively. Taejun Ham joins the group for undergraduate independent study. With these inaugural members, we officially have a group!

30 Dec 10

Rethinking digital design with chip generators makes the cover of IEEE Micro! For additional detail, see recent ISCA papers on efficiency trade-offs and specialization.

22 Dec 10

ISPASS 2011 is delighted to announce tutorials from John Carter et al. (IBM, Austin) on energy-efficient data centers and from Jiayuan Meng (Argonne) on the MV5 simulator for heterogeneous multicores.

11 Dec 10

Group dinner with Marisabel and Weidan at Magnolia Grill. Happy Holidays!

19 Oct 10

Call for ISPASS tutorials and workshop proposals. Deadline is 15 Dec. Please consider submitting!

3 Oct 10

See our comprehensive treatment of inference and architecture: "Applied Inference: Case Studies in Microarchitectural Design" in the September issue of ACM TACO.

1 Sep 10

Opportunities are available at undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctorate levels. Strong candidates encouraged to apply!

30 Aug 10

Emerging memory hits popular press! New York Times is running a front page article: "Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chips Again." See our thoughts on PCM as a scalable DRAM alternative [CACM'10] and its implications for system software [SOSP'09].

30 Aug 10

Ben is teaching a new research seminar on energy-efficient computer systems. Students interested in a holistic view of efficiency from circuits to applications and everything in between should check it out!

15 Aug 10

Systems Architecture Integration Laboratory founded.