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Colloquium Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour
Colloquium: Toward Programmable High-Performance Multicores, Prof. Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA), Monday, July 1, 2013, 11:00-12:00 EET.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Colloquium entitled:
Toward Programmable High-Performance Multicores
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Speaker: Prof. Josep Torrellas |
Abstract:
One of the biggest challenges facing us today is how to design parallel
architectures that attain high performance while efficiently supporting
a programmable environment. In this talk, I describe novel organizations
that will make the next generation of multicores more programmable and
higher performance. Specifically, I show how to automatically reuse the
upcoming transactional memory hardware for optimized code generation. Next, I describe a prototype of Record&Replay hardware that brings program
monitoring for debugging and security to the next level of capability. I
also describe a new design of hardware fences that is overhead-free and
requires no software support. Finally, if time permits, I will outline
architectural support to detect sequential consistency violations transparently.
Short Bio:
Josep Torrellas is a Professor of Computer Science and
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. He is the
Director of the Center for Programmable Extreme-Scale Computing, a
center funded by DARPA, DOE, and NSF that focuses on architectures for
extreme energy and power efficiency. He also directs the Intel-Illinois
Parallelism Center (I2PC), a center created by Intel to advance parallel
computing in clients. He has made contributions to parallel computer
architecture in the areas of shared-memory multiprocessor organizations,
cache hierarchies and coherence protocols, thread-level speculation,
and hardware and software reliability. He received a Ph.D. from
Stanford University.
Sponsor: The CS Colloquium Series is supported by a generous donation from  |