[HiPEAC-announce] Web seminar "Caches In the Many-Core Era" by Hillery Hunter, Wed 4, 11:00 (CET)

[Enric Morancho]

Dear colleague,

BSC-DAC-UPC invite you to attend the following talk:

Title: Caches In the Many-Core Era
Speaker: Hillery Hunter (IBM)
Date: Wed 4, 11:00 (CET)
URL: http://www.fib.upc.edu/sala-actes

If you would like to ask questions to the speaker, please send an e-mail 
to seminar at hipeac.ac.upc.edu

Enric Morancho

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Abstract

A key challenge in the field of computer architecture is "balanced" 
system design, in which computational capability is well-adjusted to the 
supply of data. In both academe and industry, computer architects are 
increasingly drawing system roadmaps which predict many-fold increases 
in raw computational throughput per chip -- hundreds of cores within the 
next three technology generations. At the same time, CMOS technologists 
have been warning of the "end of scaling," particularly for 
six-transistor SRAM. This is a disturbing forecast, since easily 50% of 
microprocessor silicon area is commonly occupied by SRAM caches. 
Reconciling these two divergent paths is the topic of this talk.

A particularly long-standing debate has surrounded one dense, resilient,
on-chip storage alternative: embedded DRAM. This talk will shed light on 
the technology causes of the infamous memory wall, provide a tutorial on 
the technology behind eDRAM, and abstract use of SRAM replacements into 
the system-level metrics of performance, capacity, and availability.

Bio

Hillery Hunter is a Research Staff Member in the Exploratory Systems
Architecture Department of IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown
Heights, NY. She is interested in cross-disciplinary research, spanning
circuits, microarchitecture, and compilers to achieve new solutions to
traditional problems. She has published in the area of embedded DRAM, 
and is currently engaged with IBM server and mainframe development as 
DDR3-generation end-to-end memory power lead. She received the Ph.D. 
degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, 
Urbana-Champaign.