Pretty sure next Bochs release will be even more impressive than current Bochs 2.3.7, which is might be a first major breakthrough since Bochs 2.0 release in Dec 2002.
About papers and presentations, I think Justin Rattner's keynote perfectly summarizes the spirit of ISCA-35. Panel discussion "Computer Architecture Research - are we lost our compass ?" contributed to the general spirit as well.
The micro architecture is dead, nobody could guess how long Intel and AMD still could screw out additional 10% a year from their cores. It is a time a major change both in software and hardware. The ideas already floating around and exists almost in every paper in one form or another: clustering and composite cores, transactional memory, special purpose accelerators … and binary translation as a magic solution for all the problems. Dynamic binary translation was mentioned almost in every paper, even touched some transactional memory papers. I personally believe that new microarchitecture going burn in a just few years from now and it will include hardware or software binary translator onboard.
A few special words about the talk by Weiwi Hu, ICT - "Research and development of Gudson Microprocessor". It turned out the Gudson, a Chinese home made processor, completely architected and designed by team of around a 100 people, when great are students of ICT (Institute of Computing Technology in Chinese Academy of Sciences). In single slide Hu summarized the whole work of the micro-architect in details and main deference of architects from design teams. I loved it !
Organization was very impressive, the ability of organization committee to make a banquet in Great Hall of People Beijing already shows everything. The excursion to the Great Wall today was very impressive as well. The camera I bought working perfect, I'll try to make and post some fine grained selection of the pictures on my Zenfolio tomorrow.
You are welcome to post your comments to the all above or/and e-mail me your tricks and tips for my following trip. I use my iPodTouch everywhere here so I stay connected to the Gmail and could read your mails and even answer.
Ha, isn't I sound like an Apple fan ?
Actually I probably already is or would become soon, after will find where to buy iPhone2 :)
Climbing the Great Wall
Coming next:
Beijing - to be continued (Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Silk Market, Beijing architecture)
Xian
Kunming
Lijiang
Guiling
Hong-Kong and Macao
