[Colloquium] Babak Falsafi seminar today at 3pm

[Sandra Quarles]

*REMINDER*

Systems Seminar


Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Ryerson 277 @ 3:00 pm

Babak Falsafi
Professor of CS, PARSA, EPFL

Title:  “Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision Course”

Abstract:
Information technology is now an indispensable pillar of a modern-day society, thanks to the proliferation of digital platforms in the past several decades. We are now witnessing two inflection points, however, that have changed IT as we know it. First, we have entered the Big Data era where demand on robust and economical data processing, communication and storage is growing faster than technology can sustain. Second, while forecasts indicate that chip density scaling will continue for another decade, the diminishing returns in digital platform energy efficiency and the impending "energy wall", is leading server designers towards energy-centric solutions and eventually Dark Silicon. In this talk, I will motivate these two IT trends and present promising research avenues for IT platform and infrastructure designers and operators to help mitigate these technological challenges.    

Hosted by Prof. Shan Lu

(Refreshments will be served prior to talk in Ry 255 @ 2:30 pm)

Sandy Quarles
Project Assistant
Computer Science Department
1100 E. 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.3508
773.702.8487 Fax








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