Multi-core, Multiprocessor, and Memory Hierarchies: * 4:15PM, Wed May 09, 2007 in Gates B01

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Hierarchies: * 4:15PM, Wed May 09, 2007 in Gates B01
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             Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium

                 4:15PM, Wednesday, May 09, 2007
        HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01
                   http://ee380.stanford.edu[1]

Topic:    Multi-core, Multiprocessor, and Memory Hierarchies:
          An Application Developer's View of Next Generation Systems
          Enablement

Speaker:  Catherine H. Crawford, PhD
          IBM System and Technology Group

About the talk:

Current advances in microprocessor and system technology have led
to a surprising array of scale out system enablement at a
commodity level driven by the inherent Moore's Law limitations of
simple frequency scaling to meet performance needs. Massively
multi-threaded technology, scale out clusters on commodity
networks, and heterogeneous "systems on a chip" (SoC) with
advanced memory hierarchy performance are currently available to
a wide array of industry application developers. However,
although systems are available with increasing scalability and
advaced/dedicated performance components, many applications, even
in technical computing, do not scale beyond 8 way for even a
single ISA/Operating System architecture. Current "scalable"
applications are often limited to pure distributed or
"embarassingly parallel" workloads where the application is not
necessarily "re-written" or re-architected for the new processors
or systems, but more copies of the same executable are merely
just mapped to the new numbers of threads or processors in a
network. This approach in software development and applications
enablement will hardly yield the performance boosts as silicon
advances for a majority of applications.

In this talk, we review a history of programming paradigms along
with programming models as well as discuss workloads and
subsequent programming issues from current market growth
segments. We combine this review of the applications and
programming issues with a software view of technology and system
advances to develop a sense of "whats missing" in current art for
developers to engage in pragmatic parallelism in application
development. Finally, an example of such enablement will be
presented with the Accelerator Library Framework (ALF) and Data
and Communication Synchronization (DaCS) components of the hybrid
system under development with Cell Broadband Engine and x86 based
environments; thus summarizing with an implementation view of how
complex multi-core, multi-process, multi-ISA and memory hierarchy
systems can be rendered usable by a broad audience of application
developers.

About the speaker:

Catherine H. Crawford has a decade of experience in various IBM
research and development teams, with deliverables ranging from
low level C systems code to J2EE based applications for long term
research projects as well as critical revenue stream products.
She has been an architect, developer, performance analyst, and
customer engagement consultant. She has led teams from 4 to 100
both in one location and globally dispersed. She is a respected
industry expert in Financial Services Sector/Capital Markets Rich
Media Systems and Government/Scientific Research. Currently, Cait
is the Chief Architect for Next Generations Systems Software &
Solutions in the Quasar Design Center, responsible for overall
technical leadership for the Software Development Kit (SDK) for
Cell Broadband Engine (BE) system technology. This includes Linux
kernel enablement, programming model technologies (compilers,
runtime, IDEs, debug tools), performance/benchmarking, optimized
libraries and standards development for AMP/SoC systems. Cait
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in
1991 with an SB in Mechanical Engineering. She completed MSE and
PhD degress in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from
Princeton University in 1994 and 1996; her research and
dissertation work focused on simulation of complex turbulent
flows on scale out computer architectures. She currently resides
in New Hampshire with her family.

Contact information:

Catherine H. Crawford
catcraw () us ibm com


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