Let the Barbarians In: How AI Can Accelerate Systems Performance Research

Editors’ note: You must remember the widely discussed Barbarians at The Gate article that opened the The Next Horizon of System Intelligence series! For the fourth blog, we welcome back the ADRS team from UC Berkeley to share their recent work that demonstrates how to embrace and utilize AI (as the “barbarians”) to accelerate system performance … Read more

Glia: A Human-Inspired AI for Systems Design and Optimization

Editors’ note: For the third The Next Horizon of System Intelligence series, we invited the Glia team from MIT to share their work on developing human-inspired AI for system design and optimizations. The last blog article defined the ladder of System Intelligence based on the learning experience of PhD students and Glia is such a PhD-level … Read more

Defining System Intelligence

Editors’ note. For the second article of the The Next Horizon of System Intelligence series, the team from Microsoft Research and University of Illinois Urbana Champaign shares their efforts on defining System Intelligence and their perspective on realizing it through benchmarks as an initial foundation. They are calling for community contributions to enrich existing benchmarks and create … Read more

Wafer-Scale AI Compute: A System Software Perspective

This article originally appeared in USENIX ;login: magazine, shepherded by Rik Farrow. As AI models grow larger and more complex, traditional computing architectures are hitting performance and efficiency limits. A new class of hardware, wafer-scale AI chips, pushes these boundaries by integrating hundreds of thousands of cores and massive on-chip memory onto a single wafer. … Read more