Elektronica en Informatiesystemen

De associatieonderzoeksgroep KIS nodigt u graag uit op de volgende gastvoordracht
The association research group KIS cordially invites you to the following guest presentation

Presentation by: Michael Hind (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

The Impact of Multicore Architectures on Software: Disaster or Opportunity?

When: December 13th, 14:00h - 15:00h
Where: Jozef Plateauzaal (J. Plateaustraat 22, 9000 Gent)

Abstract:

Mainstream computer venders have announced two dramatic changes in their future architectures.

First, the clock speed and the amount of cache memory per processor will
dramatically change. Namely, the exponential increase in clock frequency
we've experienced over the past decades will cease to occur, and in some
cases processor speeds will decrease.  Also, the relative amount of
cache memory for a processor will decrease.
Second, there will be exponentially increasing number of processor cores
on a chip.

These changes present two unprecedented challenges to the software
stack: 1) how does the software deal with the loss of single threaded
performance and cache memory, and 2) how does the software utilize the
additional capabilities provided by multiple cores on a chip? In this
talk, I will argue why these challenges present great opportunities for
software optimization and suggest some approaches to address these
fundamental problems.

Bio:

Michael Hind received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1991. From
1992-1998, Michael was an assistant and associate professor of computer
science at the State University of New York at New Paltz. In 1998,
Michael became a Research Staff Member in the Software Technology
Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, working on the
Jalapeno project, the project that produced the open source Jikes RVM.
In 2000, he became the manager of the Dynamic Optimization Group at IBM
Research, and in 2007, became Senior Manager of the Programming
Technologies Department at IBM Research. Michael is an associate editor
of ACM TACO, has served on over a dozen program committees, given talks
at top universities and conferences, and co-authored over 40
publications. His research interests include adaptive optimization,
program analysis, and software optimizations for multicore processors.

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Prof. Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, ELIS Department
Phone:  +32 (0)9 264 34 01
E-mail: Dirk.Stroobandt@elis.UGent.be
URL: http://www.elis.UGent.be/~dstrooba/

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