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Complete list of upcoming and past seminars

 

2014

  • December 2: "Specifying and Verifying Microarchitectural Enforcement of Memory Consistency Models", by Daniel Lustig and Prof Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EST
  • November 13: "Improving System Energy Efficiency by Leveraging Context Awareness", by Prof Tajana Rosing, University of California San Diego, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EST
  • October 24: "Towards Exascale System Modeling and Workload Characterization", by Andreea Anghel, IBM Research Zurich, Seminar in 40-200 at 10:30AM EDT
  • October 9: "Protean Code: Achieving Near-free Online Code Transformations for Warehouse Scale Computers", by Prof Jason Mars, University of Michigan, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EDT
  • September 24: "Approximate Computing: From Circuits to Software", by Prof Anand Raghunathan, Purdue University, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:30AM EDT
  • September 18: "Transitioning from the Era of Multicore to the Era of Specialization", by Doug Burger, Microsoft Research, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:30AM EST
  • August 15: "Tolerating Silent Data Corruption (SDC) causing Hardware Faults through Software Techniques", by Prof Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia, Seminar in 40-200 at 2:00PM EDT
  • July 29: "Architectural and Compiler Techniques for Fine-Grained Helper Computing on Multicore Architectures", by Prof James Tuck, North Carolina State University, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EDT
  • July 8: "Hardware Architecture Support for Trustworthy Systems", by Prof G. Edward Suh, Cornell University, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EDT
  • June 11: "Exploring Emerging Technologies in the HPC Extreme Scale Co-Design Space", by Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Institute of Technology, Seminar in 20-001 at 9:30AM EDT
  • May 20: "Energy Efficiency in Embedded System Design", by Prof. Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, Irvine, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:30AM EDT
  • May 1: "Boosting the Energy-Efficiency of Computing", by Prof. Ulya Karpuzcu, University of Minnesota, Seminar in 20-001 at 9:30AM EDT
  • April 22: "Web Server on a GPU?  Not as Crazy as it Sounds", by Prof. Alvin Lebeck, Duke University, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EDT

2013

  • December 5: "Power Management at the HW-SW Interface and Its Decision Control Pitfalls", by Augusto Vega, IBM Research, Seminar in 20-059 at 1:00PM EST
  • December 4: "Modeling and Design for Composable, Accelerator-Centric Architectures", by Prof. David Brooks, Harvard University, Seminar in 40-100 at 1:30PM EST
  • December 2: "Scale-Out Processors", by Prof. Mike Ferdman, Stony Brook University, Seminar in 20-001 at 11:00AM EST
  • November 11: "Rethinking Memory System Design for Data-Intensive Computing", by Prof. Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EST
  • October 28: "Exploring computing in presence of hardware errors: Key lessons", by Prof. Rakesh Kumar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EDT
  • October 14: "sTrex and Slicc: Rethinking Instruction Cache Utilization for Transactional Workloads", by Prof. Andreas Moshovos, University of Toronto, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EDT
  • October 7: "Improving Irregular Execution on Architectures Tuned for Regularity", by Prof. Mattan Erez, University of Texas at Austin, Seminar in 20-001 at 11:00AM EDT
  • September 12: "Data Triggered Threads - Eliminating Redundant Computation", by Prof. Dean Tullsen, University of California San Diego, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:00AM EDT
  • August 19: "Towards Sustainable Computing: Innovative Design and Management Strategies Across the Computing Stack", by Prof. Ayse Coskun, Boston University, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EDT
  • June 17: "IBM Pure Data System for Analytics - A Programmer's View", by Balaji Veeraraghavan, IBM Software Group, Seminar in 20-001 at 11:00AM EDT
  • June 6: "Agile, Efficient Virtualization Power Management with Low-latency Server Power States", by Canturk Isci, IBM Research, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EDT
  • May 10: "Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware", by Prof. Luis Ceze, University of Washington, Seminar in 20-043 at 9:30AM EDT
  • April 18: "Efficient and Easily Programmable Accelerator Architectures", by Prof. Tor Aamodt, University of British Columbia, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EDT
  • April 3: "Codelet Model and SWARM: An Emerging Intelligent Runtime Technology", by Prof. Guang Gao, University of Delaware, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EDT
  • March 26: "Measuring Side Channel Vulnerability Using SVF", by Prof. Simha Sethumadhavan, Columbia University, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:30AM EST
  • March 7: "Efficiently Supporting Virtual Memory on Manycore Systems", by Prof. Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Rutgers University, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:30AM EST
  • February 7: "Future of Computing Systems", panel by Prof. Tarek Abdelzaher, Prof. Deming Chen, and Prof. Josep Torellas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 40-000 at 1:30PM EST
  • February 7: "Extreme Scale Computer Architecture: Energy Efficiency from the Ground Up", by Prof. Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:30AM EST


2012

  • November 8: "Beyond the Hill of Multi-cores lies the Valley of Accelerators", by Prof. Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:00AM EST
  • November 5: "Rethinking the Interface to Solid-State Storage", by Prof. Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:00AM EST
  • October 25: "Associative Computing with Emerging Nonvolatile Memories", by Prof. Engin Ipek, University of Rochester, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EST
  • October 24: "Foundations for Heterogeneous Datacenter Design and Management" by Dr. Benjamin Lee, Duke University, Seminar in 19-244 at 10:00AM ETS
  • October 18: "Exploiting 3D-Stacked Memory Devices", by Prof. Rajeev Balasubramonian, University of Utah, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:00AM EST
  • October 16: "An Analysis of Cache Performance for Tree Searches", by Dr. Thomas Puzak, RSM Emeritus, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Seminar in 20-043 at 10:00AM EST
  • October 2: "Active Management of Timing Guardband to Save Energy in POWER7", by Charles Lefurgy, IBM Research-Austin, Seminar Austin 904-6D-000, Simulcast to Yorktown 20-043, at 2:00-3:30PM EST
  • September 28: "Introduction of Koibuchi laboratory and their research", National Institute of Informatics, by Prof. Michihiro Koibuchi, Seminar in Toyosu 5F boardroom at 1:30PM JST
  • September 20: "Compiling for Niceness: A Static and Dynamic Approach for QoS in Warehouse Scale Computers", by Prof. Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EST
  • September 10: "Languages and compilers for parallel computing: Where do we go from here? Research directions at mid-century", University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, by Prof. David Padua, Seminar in Toyosu 5S-TW10 at 1:00PM JST
  • July 10: "Taming Heterogeneous Parallelism with Domain Specific Languages", by Prof. Kunle Olukuton, Stanford UnIverslty, Seminar in 26-014 at 10:00AM EST
  • June 26: "A Cross-layer Framework for Monitoring and Mitigating Wearout", by Bardia Zandian, University of Southern Caiiornia, Seminar is 20-043 at 10:00AM EST
  • June 21: "Decoupled Look-ahead Architectures: Towards a Self-Tuning System", by Prof. Michael Huang, University of Rochester/IBM, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EST
  • June 13: "Power and Thermal Aware Design in Future Systems", by Prof. Saibal Mukhopadyay, Georgia Tech University, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EST
  • June 5: "z4800: An FPGA-based multi-core platform", by Prof. Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island. Seminar in 20-043, 10:00AM EST
  • May 24: "Soft Error Modeling of Large Caches" by Prof. Murali Annavaram, University of Southern California, Seminar in 20-001 at 10:00AM EST
  • April 5: "Leveraging Renewable Energy in Data Centers" by Prof. Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University, Seminar in YKT 20-043 at 10:00 AM EST
  • April 4: "Raising the Level of Abstraction in Multi-Core Simulation" by Prof. Lieven Eekhout, Ghent University, Seminar in YKT 20-001 at 10:00 AM EST
  • March 20: "Toward energy-efficient computing" by Prof. Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University, Seminar in YKT 20-043 at 10:00 AM EST
  • February 23: "HPCA Warm-up Session:

          "Architectural Perspectives of Future Wireless Base Stations based on the IBM PowerEN Processor", by Augusto Vega, IBM Research

           "Cache Restoration for Highly Partitioned Virtualized Systems", by David Daly, IBM Research
           Seminar in YKT 20-043 at 10:00 AM EST

  • February 16: "System-Level Design Methods for Heterogeneous SoC Platforms" by Prof. Luca Carloni, Columbia University Seminar in YKT 20-001 at 10:00 AM EST

 




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