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.

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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.