[UCI-Calit2] EECS/CS Seminar: Todd Austin, Friday 4/11 at 11am, in DBH 6011

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Title:                  On the Rules of Low-Power Design (and Why You Should Break Them)
Speaker:           Prof. Todd Austin, EECS, University of Michigan

Location:          Donald Bren Hall, Room 6011

Time:                 11 a.m. (refreshments at 10:45 a.m.)

Date:                 Friday April 11, 2014


ABSTRACT:

Energy and power constraints have emerged as one of the greatest lingering challenges to progress in the computing industry. In this talk, Austin will highlight some of the "rules" of low-power design and show how they bind the creativity and productivity of architects and designers. He believes the best way to deal with these rules is to disregard them, through innovative design solutions that abandon traditional design methodologies. Releasing oneself from these ties is not as hard as it might seem. To support his case, Austin will highlight two rule-breaking design technologies from his work. The first technique (Razor) combines low-power designs with resiliency mechanisms to craft highly introspective and efficient systems. The second technique (Subliminal) embraces subthreshold voltage design, which holds great promise for highly energy efficient systems.
BIO:

Todd Austin is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests include computer architecture, robust and secure system design, hardware and software verification, and performance analysis tools and techniques. Currently he is director of C-FAR, the Center for Future Architectures Research, a multi-university SRC/DARPA funded center that is seeking technologies to scale the performance and efficiency of future computing systems. Prior to joining academia, Austin was a senior computer architect in Intel's Microcomputer Research Labs, a product-oriented research laboratory in Hillsboro, Ore. Austin is the first to take credit (but the last to accept blame) for creating the SimpleScalar Tool Set, a popular collection of computer architecture performance analysis tools. He is co-author (with Andrew Tanenbaum) of the undergraduate computer architecture textbook, "Structured Computer Architecture, 6th Ed." In addition to his work in academia, Austin is founder and president of SimpleScalar LLC and co-founder of InTempo Design LLC. In 2002, he was a Sloan Research Fellow, and in 2007 he received the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award for "innovative contributions in Computer Architecture including the SimpleScalar Toolkit and the DIVA and Razor architectures." Austin received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Wisconsin in 1996.

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