The SKYLINE workshop at ISCA 2026 assembled a panel of researchers - Amir from Google DeepMind, Joseph Torellas from UIUC, Jovan Stojkovic from UT Austin and Meta, Chaojie Zhang from Microsoft Azure Research, and Benjamin C. Lee from UPenn and Google to chat about the evolving landscape of cloud-native architectures, agentic AI, and the fundamental redesign of systems from the ground up. Here is my transcript from the talk. Amir: Self refinement is something we really need to talk about.

This past semester, I took a class on parallel computer architecture, with a focus on shared memory multiprocessor systems. For the final project, my group (huge thanks to Ingi and Pradyun for carrying) and I worked on doing a characterization of Cache-Aware Scheduling on Linux. This is the final paper we produced for the class. I converted the .tex file to a hugo compatible markdown using pandoc, followed by some tweaking to get images to render.

Hello! I return to the blog about 2 weeks later than I should be. I will be serving my (nonexistent???) readers with some more low-vocabulary slop. As an attempt to half-ass my new year resolution of writing a blog post every month - I will be uploading pictures from my trip to New England and NYC with some blurbs. Why? Because it is easier than writing something interesting. Boston This is by the state street stop on the red line - pretty much the heart of downtown Boston.

Books I read in 2025 One of my resolutions for this year is to write more. So far, I have done a shitty job holding myself up to that. I have been having a hard time coming up with something to write about. Naturally, commenting on writing is much easier than writing something original. So here are my thoughts on some of the books I read in 2025. February Elder Race Adrian Tchaikovsky This was the first book (novella?

Intro Last November, I got the chance to meet Daniel Genkin - at the Midwest Security Workshop. He is one of the authors/discoveres of SPECTRE and MELTDOWN , some of the most critical vulnerabilities discovered in the last decade. These were also unpatchable due to them being hardware vulnerabilities. Bumping into Daniel was a happy coincidence for me. I was aware that MSW had a section on HW Security (which is why I went in the first place) - but I never knew that such an epic security researcher was going to be there.