[Colloquium] A Computer Science Seminar

[Donna Brooms]

UPDATED TIME AND PLACE

On May 20, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Donna Brooms <donna at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:

> ~REMINDER~
> 
> THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
> Presents
>  
> Monday, May 20, 2013
> 11:00 a.m.
> Ryerson 277
>  
> Shekhar Borkar
> Intel Architecture Group
> www.shekhar.borkar.com/
>  
> Title: “Exascale Computing—is it for real?”
> 
> Abstract:
> Compute performance increased by orders of magnitude in the last few decades, made possible by continued technology scaling, increasing frequency, providing integration capacity to realize novel architectures, and reducing energy to keep power dissipation within limit. The technology treadmill will continue, and one would expect to reach Exascale level performance this decade; however, it’s the same Physics that helped you in the past will now pose some barriers—Business as usual will not be an option. The energy and power will pose as a major challenge—an Exascale machine would consume in excess of a Giga-watt! Memory & communication bandwidth with conventional technology would be prohibitive. Orders of magnitude increased parallelism, let alone the extreme parallelism needed for energy saving techniques, would increase unreliability. And programming system will be posed with even severe challenge of harnessing the performance with concurrency. This talk will discuss potential solutions in all disciplines, such as circuit design, test, architecture, system design, programming system, and resiliency to pave the road towards Exascale performance.
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> Bio:                                                                                                                                                                                                               
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> Shekhar Borkar received M.Sc in Physics from University of Bombay in 1979, MSEE from University of Notre Dame in 1981 and joined Intel Corp, where he worked on the 8051 family of microcontrollers, and Intel’s supercomputers. Shekhar is an Intel Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and Director of Extreme-scale Research in Intel Architecture Group.
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> Host: Prof. Andrew Chien
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> 

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