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Wow, finally an ARM CPU (silicon), but I am really not a fan of the name! :P Hope the actual CPU compensates! https://www.arm.com/products/cloud-datacenter/arm-agi-cpu
As we continue revising our textbook for its 7th edition, we have turned our attention to "datacenter networking". As people with a lifelong focus on the Internet, it has been an interesting challenge to answer the question of "what's different about the datacenter". We think we are starting to get to the bottom of this, and we trace it back to the special-purpose networks that were originally built for high-performance computing applications, now getting a big boost from AI-related workloads. Our latest newsletter has the details:
https://systemsapproach.org/2026/03/23/convergence-takes-off-in-the-datacenter/
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Vibe coding toward the incident horizon https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20260302 via @CoolSWEng
"We will call this “reasoning,” because optimism is a powerful runtime"
Interesting and provocative article by Prof. Karu Sankaralingam on CACM about the role of research and researchers in the AI era.
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-inversion-what-remains-of-research-when-the-machine-can-ideate/
Not sure I necessarily agree with the conclusions, but it's an interesting take.
Recently, I have stumbled on more similar takes, e.g., John Carmack's take on intelligence vs "agency", and the recent blog post by Marc Booker on "the end of programming" and the sense of loss it entails.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/02/07/you-are-here.html
<enter Frodo-Gandalf Moria dialogue quote here :P>
"This code can be dated to some time in the one-year period from June 1974 to June 1975, probably early 1975, making it at least 50 years old and almost certainly the oldest code ever published in Queue. Thompson kept it for all that time and then shared it with me in September 2023. (I asked for it after he mentioned during a public talk that he was waiting for someone to ask! )"
"1985 – Punic Wars: The mayors of Carthage and Rome signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began."
Really cool talk from 39C3, presenting the implementation of a pipelined CPU, CLI/OS and FS in Factorio!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQYEAr0Yos
Might be an interesting way to teach comparch and systems fundamentals.
Let's start the new year with appreciation and nominate our excellent colleagues for award 🏅recognition! We also have a couple of other calls for CAL EIC and CoDAIM 2026:
ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award
https://www.sigarch.org/benefit/awards/acm-sigarch-ieee-cs-tcca-outstanding-dissertation-award/
ACM SIGARCH Alan D. Berenbaum Distinguished Service Award
https://www.sigarch.org/benefit/awards/acm-sigarch-distinguished-service-award/
ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award
https://www.sigarch.org/benefit/awards/acm-sigarch-maurice-wilkes-award/
Call for 2027 Editor-in-Chief, IEEE CAL (Computer Architecture Letters)
https://www.sigarch.org/other-announcements/call-for-2027-editor-in-chief-ieee-cal-computer-architecture-letters/
Call for papers: Workshop on Co-Design for Agentic and Multimodal AI (CoDAIM 2026)
Co-located with ASPLOS 2026
https://codaim-asplos.github.io/
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