[Advcomparch] Ομιλία Babak Falsafi, Παρασκευή 11/9, 15:00

[Konstantinos Nikas]

Καλησπέρα,

Σας προσκαλούμε στην ομιλία του Καθ. του École polytechnique fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL) Babak Falsafi με τίτλο "A Case for Specialized
Server Architecture", που θα γίνει την Παρασκευή 11/9, στις 15:00, στο
Αμφιθέατρο Πολυμέσων της κεντρικής βιβλιοθήκης του ΕΜΠ. Ακολουθεί
περίληψη και σύντομο βιογραφικό του ομιλητή.

Είναι μια πολύ καλή ευκαιρία ιδιαίτερα για όσους τυχόν ενδιαφέρονται
για μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές (διδακτορικό) στον τομέα αυτό.

K.

A Case for Specialized Server Architecture

Large-scale IT services are now increasingly run in memory due to
tight application latency demands. With services centered mostly
around data, datacenter owners often integrate as much DRAM into a
single blade as technology allows, and use low-latency high-bandwidth
network fabrics to aggregate near-neighbor DRAM into large memory
pools. Because DRAM now accounts for a substantial fraction of both
server capital and operation costs, datacenter designers are
increasingly customizing server hardware, software and infrastructure
for online services around memory to reduce costs. In this talk, I
will first motivate specialized server design for in-memory computing
and then present promising avenues to explore specialization to
improve server efficiency.


Bio

Babak is Professor in the School of Computer and Communication
Sciences and the founding director of the EcoCloud research center
investigating data-centric cloud technologies at EPFL. He has made
numerous contributions to multiprocessor server design including an
architecture underlying the Sun (now Oracle) WildFire/WildCat servers,
memory system technologies incorporated in IBM BlueGene/P and Q, and
server evaluation methodologies in use by AMD and HP. His latest
proposal for server processor designs for scale-out services has laid
the foundation for specialized processors such as Cavium ThunderX. He
is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, IBM Faculty Partnership Awards,
and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He is a fellow of IEEE.

-- 
Dr. Konstantinos Nikas
Computing Systems Laboratory
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens

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e-mail: knikas at cslab.ece.ntua.gr
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