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Condor Currents episodes

  • Themis: Software-Defined Hardware Prefetching
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Themis: Software-Defined Hardware Prefetching** (arXiv)
    - **Beyond Static Policies: Dynamic Selection Among Modern Microarchitectural Policies** (arXiv)
    - **AMD Zen 6 CPU architecture may include new optimisations to tackle game stutter - KitGuru** (google_arch)
    - **Migration Using Context Cache for Multicore RISC‐V Processor - Wiley Online Library** (google_riscv)
    - **QuMA: Researchers Develop Quantum Microarchitecture that "Bridges the Gap" in Processor System Stacks - IEEE Computer Society** (google_arch)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    15 min
  • Selective KV Cache Protection for Noise-Resilient LLM Inference on Analog Compute-In-Memory Systems
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Selective KV Cache Protection for Noise-Resilient LLM Inference on Analog Compute-In-Memory Systems** (arXiv)
    - **WitCert: Sound Runtime Risk Observability and Gating for KV-Cache Quantization** (arXiv)
    - **Evaluating and Calibrating Performance On RISC-V Vector Processors (KTH, LLNL, BSC) - Semiconductor Engineering** (google_riscv)
    - **RISC-V Mentorship Taught Me the RISC-V ISA Is Far More Than a Reference Manual** (riscv_news)
    - **Zhihe A210 octa-core RISC-V SoC with 12 TOPS NPU powers SoM-based development board - cnx-software.com** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    0 min
  • Windowed-MTP: Removing the Full-Context Draft-KV Tax at Million-Token Context
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Windowed-MTP: Removing the Full-Context Draft-KV Tax at Million-Token Context** (arXiv)
    - **A Heterogeneous Neural Network Accelerator for End-to-End Multitask RF Signal Recognition** (arXiv)
    - **Checking In On The ISA Wars And Its Impact On CPU Architectures - Hackaday** (google_arch)
    - **Support RAJA and Scientific Applications on RVV Architectures** (riscv_news)
    - **AheadComputing Introduces Breakthrough CPU Architecture for General-Purpose Computing, With Jim Keller on Board - techpowerup.com** (google_arch)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    17 min
  • A Photonic-CXL Memory Appliance for Scalable KV Cache Management in LLM Inference
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **A Photonic-CXL Memory Appliance for Scalable KV Cache Management in LLM Inference** (arXiv)
    - **SPARC: Automated Root-Cause Analysis of Pre-Silicon Power Side-Channel Leakage in the Processor Design Flow** (arXiv)
    - **RISC-V Targets Data Centers as Open ISA Pushes Beyond Embedded Systems - eetasia.com** (google_riscv)
    - **Openchip unveils BER10 RISC-V processor as Europe pursues greater digital sovereignty - New Electronics** (google_riscv)
    - **AI is stress-testing processor architectures and RISC-V fits the moment - EDN - Voice of the Engineer** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    0 min
  • PIMID: A Full-System Simulator with Intricacy and Diversity for Processing-in-Memory
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **PIMID: A Full-System Simulator with Intricacy and Diversity for Processing-in-Memory** (arXiv)
    - **Hardware-Software Co-Design for Float16 On-Device Training on RISC-V Single-Core** (arXiv)
    - **Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX - Phoronix** (google_riscv)
    - **RISC-V vs ARM: Which Instruction Set Architecture Will Dominate the Future? - electropages.com** (google_arch)
    - **Using a Performance Model to Implement a Superscalar CVA6** (riscv_news)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    17 min
  • Investigating reservoir computing for branch predictionin pipelined processors using emerging CMOS memristor devices
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **Investigating reservoir computing for branch predictionin pipelined processors using emerging CMOS memristor devices** (arXiv)
    - **PortLBM: A Portable Lattice Boltzmann Tool Leveraging SYCL on AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs** (arXiv)
    - **RISC-V: The Open-Source Revolution in CPU Architecture - design-reuse.com** (google_arch)
    - **RISC-V Targets Data Centers as Open ISA Pushes Beyond Embedded Systems - EE Times Asia** (google_riscv)
    - **RISC-V Targets Data Centers as Open ISA Pushes Beyond Embedded Systems - EE Times Asia** (google_arch)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    13 min
  • SpecBox: Speculative Sandbox Scheduling for Efficient LLM Agent Serving
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **SpecBox: Speculative Sandbox Scheduling for Efficient LLM Agent Serving** (arXiv)
    - **Reducing Instruction-Fetch Energy in RISC-V for Embedded AI Processing via Dynamic and Static Loop Caching** (arXiv)
    - **Conflict to Compliance: RISC-V Extension Migration Across Spec, HW, and SW** (riscv_news)
    - **A requiem for Optane, Intel's KV cache killer that could have eased the RAM price crunch** (the_register)
    - **Espressif begins mass production of ESP32-S31 wireless RISC-V SoC - LinuxGizmos.com** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    17 min
  • SpacemiT MUSE Pi Pro is an octa-core RISC-V SBC with Armbian support - LinuxGizmos.com
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **SpacemiT MUSE Pi Pro is an octa-core RISC-V SBC with Armbian support - LinuxGizmos.com** (google_riscv)
    - **Modder builds 8,192-core GPU at home out of RISC-V microcontrollers — full "graphics card" draws over 2,000 watts of power, requires a 3D printer to program - Tom's Hardware** (google_riscv)
    - **Prompt to tape out: Autonomous AI agent builds 1.5 GHz RISC-V CPU - Adafruit** (google_riscv)
    - **Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short - Phoronix** (google_riscv)
    - **The next RISC-V processor frontier: AI - EDN - Voice of the Engineer** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    0 min
  • TileSight: A First-Principles Tile-Centric Analytical GPU Performance Model from Cores to Clusters
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **TileSight: A First-Principles Tile-Centric Analytical GPU Performance Model from Cores to Clusters** (arXiv)
    - **Black-Box Performance Evaluation of Elastic Block Storage: Contract, Rate-Limiting Model, and Software Exploration** (arXiv)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core Into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - AOL.com** (google_riscv)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core Into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - TechPowerUp** (google_riscv)
    - **India Launches DHRUV64, Its First 1 GHz, 64-bit Dual-Core RISC-V CPU - TechPowerUp** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by Ada, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    14 min
  • DGNA: Dissecting GPU NUMA Architecture through Microbenchmarking and Data Analysis
    ## Episode Summary
    In this episode, we cover:
    - **DGNA: Dissecting GPU NUMA Architecture through Microbenchmarking and Data Analysis** (arXiv)
    - **Isolation Failure From Shared Storage: Characterizing and Exploiting Page-Cache SCA Leakage Across Containers and VMs** (arXiv)
    - **NextSilicon to Productize Arbel RISC-V Core Into 64-Core Enterprise Processor for AI and HPC - Business Wire** (google_riscv)
    - **Zhihe A210 octa-core RISC-V SoC with 12 TOPS NPU powers SoM-based development board - CNX Software** (google_riscv)
    - **India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 - The Register** (google_riscv)
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    *Sponsored by AIEDA, Ago Consulting, and Zen Semiconductor*
    0 min

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Condor Currents delivers concise breakdowns of the latest computer architecture research and RISC-V developments. Each episode covers recent arXiv papers on data prefetching, branch prediction, and…