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Wavefront Threading Enables Effective High-Level Synthesis

Blake Pelton, Adam Sapek, Ken Eguro, Daniel Lo, Alessandro Forin, Matt Humphrey, Jinwen Xi, David Cox, Rajas H. Karandikar, Johannes de Fine Licht, Evgeny Babin, Adrian Caulfield, Doug Burger

Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages | May 2024, Vol 8: pp. 1066-1090

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LeanAttention: Hardware-Aware Scalable Attention Mechanism for the Decode-Phase of Transformers

Rya Sanovar, Srikant Bharadwaj, Renee St. Amant, Victor Ruehle, Saravan Rajmohan

May 2024

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RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

May 14, 2024 | Richard Black, Marco Caballero, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Ant Rowstron, David Sweeney, Hugh Williams

RASCAL is an untethered robot with a modular design, allowing it to move flexibly along and between evenly spaced storage shelves. Discover how it can address the availability and scalability challenges of existing automated storage…

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RASCAL: A Scalable, High-redundancy Robot for Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems

Richard Black, Marco Caballero, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Tim Deegan, Philip Heard, Freddie Hong, Russell Joyce, Sergey Legtchenko, Ant Rowstron, Adam Smith, David Sweeney, Hugh Williams

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation | May 2024

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Microsoft at ASPLOS 2024: Advancing hardware and software for high-scale, secure, and efficient modern applications

April 29, 2024 | Rodrigo Fonseca, Madan Musuvathi

From AI and deep learning to innovations in infrastructure, researchers from Microsoft are bridging the gap between architecture, programming languages, and operating systems to advance the state of the art at ASPLOS 2024.

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Cornucopia Reloaded: Load Barriers for CHERI Heap Temporal Safety

Nathaniel Filardo, Brett F. Gutstein, Jonathan Woodruff, Jessica Clarke, Peter Rugg, Brooks Davis, Mark Johnston, Robert Norton-Wright, David Chisnall, Simon W. Moore, Peter G. Neumann, Robert N. M. Watson

ASPLOS ’24 | April 2024

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Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics

Zhihan Zhang, Agni K. Biswal, Ankush Nandi, Kali Frost, Jake Smith, Bichlien Nguyen, Shwetak Patel, Aniruddh Vashisth, Vikram Iyer

Nature Sustainability | April 2024

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Holographic Optical Storage for the Cloud?

Benn Thomsen, Grace Brennan, Nathanael Cheriere, Jiaqi Chu, Jannes Gladrow, Giorgio Maltese, Dushyanth Narayanan, Greg O'Shea, Alan Sanders, Xingbo Wu, Mengyang Yang

Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024 | March 2024

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Predict; Don’t React for Enabling Efficient Fine-Grain DVFS in GPUs

Srikant Bharadwaj, Shomit Das, K. Mazumdar, Bradford M. Beckmann, Stephen Kosonocky

Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | March 2024

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Azure Research is a federation of research groups within Microsoft Azure. We perform cutting-edge research in close collaboration Microsoft product teams and the broader industrial and academic research community. See the individual team’s pages for…

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