Cache is king

(Lehigh University) Xiaochen Guo of Lehigh University will be supported by a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation for her work in designing hardware architectures that improve the efficiency of computational memory systems. New memory system designs through the project hold the potential to unlock fundamental improvement, and she believes this may in turn prompt a "complete rethinking of programming language, compiler, and run-t...