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title: "ISCA 2020 — all accepted papers with summaries and citations"
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# ISCA 2020: all accepted papers

94 papers · the most cited first · [← ISCA 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-ieee-international-symposium-on-computer-architecture-isca/2020/)

1. **[MLPerf Inference Benchmark ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00045)**Vijay Janapa Reddi, Christine Cheng, David E. Kanter et al.*505 citations*
2. **[Accel-Sim: An Extensible Simulation Framework for Validated GPU Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khairy-2020-accel-sim-extensible-simulation-framework/)**Mahmoud Khairy, Zhesheng Shen, Tor M. Aamodt et al.*364 citations · our summary*
3. **[RecNMP: Accelerating Personalized Recommendation with Near-Memory Processing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00070)**Liu Ke, Udit Gupta, Benjamin Youngjae Cho et al.*235 citations*
4. **[DeepRecSys: A System for Optimizing End-To-End At-Scale Neural Recommendation Inference ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00084)**Udit Gupta, Samuel Hsia, Vikram Saraph et al.*173 citations*
5. **[Revisiting RowHammer: An Experimental Analysis of Modern DRAM Devices and Mitigation Techniques ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00059)**Jeremie S. Kim, Minesh Patel, A. Giray Yağlıkçı et al.*160 citations*
6. **[DSAGEN: Synthesizing Programmable Spatial Accelerators ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00032)**Jian Weng, Sihao Liu, Vidushi Dadu et al.*138 citations*
7. **[SpinalFlow: An Architecture and Dataflow Tailored for Spiking Neural Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00038)**Surya Narayanan, Karl Taht, Rajeev Balasubramonian et al.*121 citations*
8. **[Xuantie-910: A Commercial Multi-Core 12-Stage Pipeline Out-of-Order 64-bit High Performance RISC-V Processor with Vector Extension : Industrial Product ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00016)**Chen Chen, Xiaoyan Xiang, Chang Liu et al.*115 citations*
9. **[A Multi-Neural Network Acceleration Architecture ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00081)**Eunjin Baek, Dongup Kwon, Jangwoo Kim*107 citations*
10. **[Centaur: A Chiplet-based, Hybrid Sparse-Dense Accelerator for Personalized Recommendations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00083)**Ranggi Hwang, Taehun Kim, Youngeun Kwon et al.*99 citations*
11. **[Bouquet of Instruction Pointers: Instruction Pointer Classifier-based Spatial Hardware Prefetching ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00021)**Samuel Pakalapati, Biswabandan Panda*97 citations*
12. **[DRQ: Dynamic Region-based Quantization for Deep Neural Network Acceleration ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00086)**Zhuoran Song, Bangqi Fu, Feiyang Wu et al.*91 citations*
13. **[Think Fast: A Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) for Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00023)**Dennis Abts, Jonathan Ross, Jonathan Sparling et al.*91 citations*
14. **[Timely: Pushing Data Movements And Interfaces In Pim Accelerators Towards Local And In Time Domain ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00073)**Weitao Li, Pengfei Xu, Yang Katie Zhao et al.*89 citations*
15. **[NISQ+: Boosting quantum computing power by approximating quantum error correction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00053)**Adam A. Holmes, Mohammad Reza Jokar, Ghasem Pasandi et al.*87 citations*
16. **[Architecting Noisy Intermediate-Scale Trapped Ion Quantum Computers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00051)**Prakash Murali, Dripto M. Debroy, Kenneth R. Brown et al.*77 citations*
17. **[iPIM: Programmable In-Memory Image Processing Accelerator Using Near-Bank Architecture ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00071)**Peng Gu, Xinfeng Xie, Yufei Ding et al.*77 citations*
18. **[Evolution of the Samsung Exynos CPU Microarchitecture ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00015)**Brian Grayson, Jeff Rupley, Gerald D Zuraski et al.*72 citations*
19. **[MuonTrap: Preventing Cross-Domain Spectre-Like Attacks by Capturing Speculative State ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00022)**Sam Ainsworth, Timothy M. Jones*68 citations*
20. **[An In-Network Architecture for Accelerating Shared-Memory Multiprocessor Collectives ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00085)**Benjamin Klenk, Nan Jiang, Greg Thorson et al.*67 citations*
21. **[GaaS-X: Graph Analytics Accelerator Supporting Sparse Data Representation using Crossbar Architectures ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00044)**Nagadastagiri Reddy Challapalle, Sahithi Rampalli, Linghao Song et al.*67 citations*
22. **[UGEMM: Unary Computing Architecture for GEMM Applications ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00040)**Di Wu, Jingjie Li, Ruokai Yin et al.*67 citations*
23. **[CLR-DRAM: A Low-Cost DRAM Architecture Enabling Dynamic Capacity-Latency Trade-Off ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00061)**Haocong Luo, Taha Shahroodi, Hasan Hassan et al.*64 citations*
24. **[Buddy Compression: Enabling Larger Memory for Deep Learning and HPC Workloads on GPUs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00080)**Esha Choukse, Michael B. Sullivan, Mike O’Connor et al.*57 citations*
25. **[NEBULA: A Neuromorphic Spin-Based Ultra-Low Power Architecture for SNNs and ANNs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00039)**Sonali Singh, Anup Sarma, Nicholas Jao et al.*54 citations*
26. **[Bonsai: High-Performance Adaptive Merge Tree Sorting ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00033)**Nikola Samardzic, Weikang Qiao, Vaibhav Aggarwal et al.*51 citations*
27. **[Data Compression Accelerator on IBM POWER9 and z15 Processors : Industrial Product ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00012)**Bülent Abali, B. Blaner, John Reilly et al.*51 citations*
28. **[Speculative Data-Oblivious Execution: Mobilizing Safe Prediction For Safe and Efficient Speculative Execution ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00064)**Jiyong Yu, Namrata Mantri, Josep Torrellas et al.*50 citations*
29. **[SysScale: Exploiting Multi-domain Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Energy Efficient Mobile Processors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00029)**Jawad Haj-Yahya, Mohammed Alser, Jeremie S. Kim et al.*46 citations*
30. **[JPEG-ACT: Accelerating Deep Learning via Transform-based Lossy Compression ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00075)**R. David Evans, Lufei Liu, Tor M. Aamodt*45 citations*
31. **[SmartExchange: Trading Higher-cost Memory Storage/Access for Lower-cost Computation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00082)**Yang Katie Zhao, Xiaohan Chen, Yue Wang et al.*44 citations*
32. **[CryoCore: A Fast and Dense Processor Architecture for Cryogenic Computing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00037)**Ilkwon Byun, Dongmoon Min, Gyu-hyeon Lee et al.*42 citations*
33. **[Enhancing and Exploiting Contiguity for Fast Memory Virtualization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00050)**Chloe Alverti, Stratos Psomadakis, Vasileios Karakostas et al.*41 citations*
34. **[Near Data Acceleration with Concurrent Host Access ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00072)**Benjamin Y. Cho, Yongkee Kwon, Sangkug Lym et al.*39 citations*
35. **[Echo: Compiler-based GPU Memory Footprint Reduction for LSTM RNN Training ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00092)**Bojian Zheng, Nandita Vijaykumar, Gennady G. Pekhimenko*36 citations*
36. **[Perforated Page: Supporting Fragmented Memory Allocation for Large Pages ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00079)**Chang Hyun Park, Sanghoon Cha, Bo-Kyeong Kim et al.*35 citations*
37. **[HOOP: Efficient Hardware-Assisted Out-of-Place Update for Non-Volatile Memory ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00055)**Miao Cai, Chance Coats, Jian Huang*33 citations*
38. **[Hardware-Software Co-Design for Brain-Computer Interfaces ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00041)**Ioannis Karageorgos, Karthik Sriram, Ján Veselý et al.*33 citations*
39. **[Nested Enclave: Supporting Fine-grained Hierarchical Isolation with SGX ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00069)**Joongun Park, Naegyeong Kang, Taehoon Kim et al.*33 citations*
40. **[SQUARE: Strategic Quantum Ancilla Reuse for Modular Quantum Programs via Cost-Effective Uncomputation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00054)**Yongshan Ding, Xin-Chuan Wu, Adam Holmes et al.*33 citations*
41. **[A Specialized Architecture for Object Serialization with Applications to Big Data Analytics ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00036)**Jae-Young Jang, Sung Jun Jung, Sunmin Jeong et al.*32 citations*
42. **[AccQOC: Accelerating Quantum Optimal Control Based Pulse Generation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00052)**Jinglei Cheng, Haoqing Deng, Xuehai Qia*30 citations*
43. **[Hyper-Ap: Enhancing Associative Processing Through A Full-Stack Optimization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00074)**Yue Zha, Jing Li*30 citations*
44. **[The NEBULA RPC-Optimized Architecture ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00027)**Mark Sutherland, Siddharth Gupta, Babak Falsafi et al.*30 citations*
45. **[CHEx86: Context-Sensitive Enforcement of Memory Safety via Microcode-Enabled Capabilities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00068)**Rasool Sharifi, Ashish Venkat*29 citations*
46. **[Déjà View: Spatio-Temporal Compute Reuse for‘ Energy-Efficient 360° VR Video Streaming ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00030)**Shulin Zhao, Haibo Zhang, Sandeepa Bhuyan et al.*29 citations*
47. **[Divide and Conquer Frontend Bottleneck ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00017)**Ali Ahmed Ansari, Pejman Lotfi-Kamran, Hamid Sarbazi‐Azad*28 citations*
48. **[Printed Microprocessors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00028)**Nathaniel Bleier, Muhammad Husnain Mubarik, Farhan Rasheed et al.*28 citations*
49. **[GraphABCD: Scaling Out Graph Analytics with Asynchronous Block Coordinate Descent ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00043)**Yifan Yang, Zhaoshi Li, Yangdong Steve Deng et al.*27 citations*
50. **[Gorgon: Accelerating Machine Learning from Relational Data ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00035)**Matthew Vilim, Alexander Rucker, Yaqi Zhang et al.*25 citations*
51. **[T4: Compiling Sequential Code for Effective Speculative Parallelization in Hardware ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00024)**Victor A. Ying, Mark C. Jeffrey, Daniel Sánchez*25 citations*
52. **[The IBM z15 High Frequency Mainframe Branch Predictor Industrial Product ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00014)**N. R. Adiga, James Bonanno, Adam Collura et al.*25 citations*
53. **[A Bus Authentication and Anti-Probing Architecture Extending Hardware Trusted Computing Base Off CPU Chips and Beyond ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00067)**Zhenyu Xu, Thomas Mauldin, Zheyi Yao et al.*24 citations*
54. **[Hardware-Based Domain Virtualization for Intra-Process Isolation of Persistent Memory Objects ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00062)**Yuanchao Xu, Chencheng Ye, Yan Solihin et al.*24 citations*
55. **[The Virtual Block Interface: A Flexible Alternative to the Conventional Virtual Memory Framework ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00089)**Nastaran Hajinazar, Pratyush Patel, Minesh Patel et al.*24 citations*
56. **[A Case for Hardware-Based Demand Paging ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00093)**Gyusun Lee, Wenjing Jin, Wonsuk Song et al.*23 citations*
57. **[Genesis: A Hardware Acceleration Framework for Genomic Data Analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00031)**Tae Jun Ham, David Bruns-Smith, Brendan Sweeney et al.*23 citations*
58. **[MorLog: Morphable Hardware Logging for Atomic Persistence in Non-Volatile Main Memory ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00057)**Xueliang Wei, Dan Feng, Wei Tong et al.*23 citations*
59. **[Relaxed Persist Ordering Using Strand Persistency ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00060)**Vaibhav Gogte, William Wang, Stephan Diestelhorst et al.*23 citations*
60. **[Compact Leakage-Free Support for Integrity and Reliability ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00066)**Meysam Taassori, Rajeev Balasubramonian, Siddhartha Chhabra et al.*22 citations*
61. **[Tailored Page Sizes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00078)**Faruk Alfredo Güvenilir, Yale N. Patt*22 citations*
62. **[SOFF: An OpenCL High-Level Synthesis Framework for FPGAs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00034)**Gangwon Jo, Heehoon Kim, Jeesoo Lee et al.*20 citations*
63. **[BabelFish: Fusing Address Translations for Containers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00049)**Dimitrios Skarlatos, Umur Darbaz, Bhargava Gopireddy et al.*18 citations*
64. **[Heat to Power: Thermal Energy Harvesting and Recycling for Warm Water-Cooled Datacenters ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00042)**Xinhui Zhu, Jiang Weixiang, Fangming Liu et al.*18 citations*
65. **[Packet Chasing: Spying on Network Packets over a Cache Side-Channel ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00065)**Mohammadkazem Taram, Ashish Venkat, Dean Michael Tullsen*18 citations*
66. **[HieraGen: Automated Generation of Concurrent, Hierarchical Cache Coherence Protocols ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00077)**Nicolai Oswald, Vijay Nagarajan, Daniel J. Sorin*15 citations*
67. **[High-Performance Deep-Learning Coprocessor Integrated into x86 SoC with Server-Class CPUs Industrial Product ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00013)**Glenn Henry, Parviz Palangpour, Michael Thomson et al.*15 citations*
68. **[ZnG: Architecting GPU Multi-Processors with New Flash for Scalable Data Analysis ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00090)**Jie Zhang, Myoungsoo Jung*14 citations*
69. **[Focused Value Prediction: Concepts, techniques and implementations presented in this paper are subject matter of pending patent applications, which have been filed by Intel Corporation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00018)**Sumeet Bandishte, Jayesh Gaur, Zeev Sperber et al.*13 citations*
70. **[Mocktails: Capturing the Memory Behaviour of Proprietary Mobile Architectures ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00046)**Mario Badr, Carlo Delconte, Isak Edo et al.*12 citations*
71. **[ScoRD: A Scoped Race Detector for GPUs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00088)**Aditya K. Kamath, Alvin A. George, Arkaprava Basu*12 citations*
72. **[Slipstream Processors Revisited: Exploiting Branch Sets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00020)**Vinesh Srinivasan, Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury, Eric Rotenberg*12 citations*
73. **[TVARAK: Software-Managed Hardware Offload for Redundancy in Direct-Access NVM Storage ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00058)**Rajat Kateja, Nathan Beckmann, Gregory R. Ganger*12 citations*
74. **[Efficiently Supporting Dynamic Task Parallelism on Heterogeneous Cache-Coherent Systems ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00025)**Moyang Wang, Tuan Ta, Lin Cheng et al.*11 citations*
75. **[Flick: Fast and Lightweight ISA-Crossing Call for Heterogeneous-ISA Environments ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00026)**Shenghsun Cho, Han Chen, Sergey Madaminov et al.*11 citations*
76. **[Check-In: In-Storage Checkpointing for Key-Value Store System Leveraging Flash-Based SSDs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00063)**Joohyeong Yoon, Won Seob Jeong, Won Woo Ro*9 citations*
77. **[HyperTRIO: Hyper-Tenant Translation of I/O Addresses ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00048)**Alexey Lavrov, David Wentzlaff*9 citations*
78. **[TransForm: Formally Specifying Transistency Models and Synthesizing Enhanced Litmus Tests ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00076)**Naorin Hossain, Caroline Trippel, Margaret Martonosi*9 citations*
79. **[Auto-Predication of Critical Branches ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00019)**Adarsh Chauhan, Jayesh Gaur, Zeev Sperber et al.*8 citations*
80. **[Lelantus: Fine-Granularity Copy-On-Write Operations for Secure Non-Volatile Memories ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00056)**Jian Bo Zhou, Amro Awad, Jun Wang*7 citations*
81. **[Commutative Data Reordering: A New Technique to Reduce Data Movement Energy on Sparse Inference Workloads ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00091)**Ben Feinberg, Benjamin C. Heyman, Darya Mikhailenko et al.*6 citations*
82. **[Independent Forward Progress of Work-groups ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00087)**Alexandru Duţu, Matthew D. Sinclair, Bradford M. Beckmann et al.*5 citations*
83. **[ISCA 2020 Breaker Page ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00003)**
84. **[ISCA 2020 Committees ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00010)**
85. **[ISCA 2020 Committees ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00009)**
86. **[ISCA 2020 Committees ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00008)**
87. **[ISCA 2020 Index ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00094)**
88. **[ISCA 2020 List Reviewer Page ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00011)**
89. **[ISCA 2020 Opinion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00007)**
90. **[ISCA 2020 Opinion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00005)**
91. **[ISCA 2020 Opinion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00006)**Lieven Eeckhout
92. **[ISCA 2020 TOC ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00004)**
93. **[ISCA 2020 Title page i ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00002)**
94. **[ISCA 2020 Title page ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/isca45697.2020.00001)**
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