The ASPIRE Laboratory started in 2013 as a 5-year research project that recognized the shift from transistor-scaling-driven performance improvements to a new post-scaling world where whole-stack co-design is the key to improved efficiency. Our goal has been to use deep hardware and software co-tuning to … Continue reading →

Speaker: David Wentzlaff Title: Processors for the Data Center and Cloud of the Future Abstract: Current-day data centers and IaaS clouds (e.g. Amazon EC2, MS Azure, Google GCE) use microprocessors that are very similar to or the same as those … Continue reading →

Speaker: Boris Babayan, Intel Fellow, Software and Services Group, Director of Architecture, Intel Corporation Title: Computer Technology Basics: Past, Present, and Future Abstract: The speaker will propose a new approach to CPU architecture design, when only the algorithm and data … Continue reading →

Speaker: Zhangxi Tan Title: FlashBlade – The Cloud-Scale All-Flash Data Platform Abstract: Pure Storage FlashBlade is a recently announced all-flash rack-scale storage platform designed to store the biggest, the fastest unstructured data of today and tomorrow. FlashBlade is an elastic scale-out system … Continue reading →

Speaker: David Chisnall Title: Hardware-enforced memory safety for C (is hard) Abstract: The C specification is carefully designed to permit a variety of different implementations of memory, including those that use a fully copying garbage collector. Unfortunately, the range of … Continue reading →

Speaker: Steve Wallach Title: An Exascale Address Space (Unified Name Server & Protection Domains) Abstract: Bill Demmer (VP at Digital Equipment) once said, “It’s the addressing capability that has probably been, over history, the major driving force behind new computer … Continue reading →

REGISTER  HERE (This short course is offered through EdX and the pre-recorded lectures are available to view online. Click the link above to register and view the lectures) PROGRAM SUMMARY We will provide an introduction to parallel architectures and programming … Continue reading →

Please join us for the 3rd RISC-V workshop hosted courtesy of Oracle at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, CA, January 5-6, 2016. This workshop will be the first event run by the newly formed RISC-V Foundation. The goals … Continue reading →

Speaker: Emmanuelle Saillard Title: Static/dynamic analyses for validation and improvements of multi-models HPC applications Abstract: Supercomputing plays in important role in several innovative fields, speeding up prototyping or validating scientific theories. However, supercomputers are evolving rapidly with now millions of … Continue reading →

Speaker: Dr. Sehat Sutardja Title: Final Level Cache (FLC™) Abstract: FLC virtualizes big memory systems. An example is virtualizing DRAM main memory so that we could use cheaper but much slower memory devices such as Flash memory while at the … Continue reading →

Speaker: Noa Zilberman Title: Bridging the Gap between Networking and End-Host Computing Abstract: In the past 20 years, the interconnect rate of networking devices doubled every 18 months, whereas computing systems’ doubled approximately every 24 months. This led to an … Continue reading →

Speaker: Jose Renau, UC Santa Cruz Title: Going Live (a Computer Architect Perspective) Abstract: Professor Renau will talk about the still not published Live Simulation environment being developed by the University of California, Santa Cruz.  The Live Simulation environment is … Continue reading →

Registration Now Open! Please join us for the 2nd RISC-V workshop at The International House , Berkeley June 29-30, 2015. The goals of this workshop are for the community to share information about recent activity in the various RISC-V projects … Continue reading →

Speaker: Richard L. Sites – Google, Inc. Title: Datacenter Computers: Modern Challenges in CPU Design Abstract: Computers used as datacenter servers have usage patterns that differ substantially from those of desktop or laptop computers. We discuss four key differences in … Continue reading →

Speaker: Benjamin C. Lee, PhD. – Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University Title: Economic Mechanisms for Managing Risk in Datacenters Abstract: To increase datacenter capability within today’s megawatt-scale power budgets, we present the case for building datacenters using … Continue reading →

The next ASPIRE retreat will be held January 12-14, 2015, at the Monterey Marriot Hotel, Monterey, CA. This is the fourth of our semi-annual offsite meetings, gathering together lab members, sponsors and invited guests to present and review our current status and plans, and … Continue reading →

Speaker: Michael Anderson Title: A Framework for Composing High-Performance OpenCL from Python Descriptions Abstract: We would like to write programs in productivity languages such as Python or MATLAB, and achieve performance comparable to the best hand-tuned code. One approach toward … Continue reading →

Click Here to Register RISC-V (pronounced “risk-5”) is a new instruction set architecture (ISA) that was originally designed to support computer architecture research and education, but which we now hope will become a standard open architecture for industry implementations. RISC-V … Continue reading →

Speaker: Frank Uhlig, Auburn University Title: Francis’s QR Algorithm for the Eigen Problem Abstract: (I) Francis’ Algorithm, its inner workings a) Reduction to Hessenberg form b) Francis’ algorithm with implicit steps b1) Francis shifts b2) The shift(s) induced unitary similarity … Continue reading →

TALK: Gennady Pekhimenko, Wed, Sept 3rd at 3pm in 606 Soda Hall Speaker: Gennady Pekhimenko Title: Linearly Compressed Pages: A Low-Complexity, Low-Latency Main Memory Compression Framework Abstract:Data compression is a promising approach for meeting the increasing memory capacity demands expected … Continue reading →

Speaker: Torsten Hoefler Title: Slim Fly: A Cost Effective Low-Diameter Network Topology Abstract: We introduce a high-performance cost-effective network topology called Slim Fly that approaches the theoretically optimal network diameter. Slim Fly is based on graphs that approximate the solution … Continue reading →

Title: Short Course on Parallel Programming Dates: August 18- 20, 2014 Location: This short course is offered online through EdX. To access the pre-recorded lectures: EdX: Short Course on Parallel Programming Hands-on sessions: Hands-on sessions will be held 8/19 and … Continue reading →

Speaker: Christina Delimitrou Title: Improving Resource-Efficiency in Cluster Management Abstract: Cloud computing promises flexibility, high performance and low costs both for users and datacenter operators. Despite a shift from dedicated to shared clusters, most datacenters still operate at low utilization … Continue reading →

Speaker: Marcel Kornacker Title: Impala: A Modern, Open-Source SQL Engine for Hadoop Abstract: The Cloudera Impala project is pioneering the next generation of Hadoop capabilities: the convergence of fast SQL queries with the capacity, scalability, and flexibility of a Hadoop … Continue reading →

The next ASPIRE retreat will be held May 28-30 at the Chaminade in Santa Cruz. This is the third of our semi-annual offsite meetings, gathering together lab members, sponsors and invited guests to present and review our current status and … Continue reading →

SPEAKER: Fredrico Faggin TITLE: Microelectronics & Microprocessors: The Early Years  Date & time: Feb 19, 10:30am-12:00pm, 540A/B Cory Hall  Talk abstract: Today we are so used to the enormous capabilities of microelectronics that we can hardly imagine what it might … Continue reading →

TALK: Jignesh Patel, UW-Madison, on Tues, Jan 21 at 10am in 430/8 Soda Hall – Wozniak Lounge Speaker: Jignesh Patel, University of Wisconsin-Madison Title: Data @ Bare Metal Speed Abstract: Big data platforms today largely employ data processing kernels that … Continue reading →

The next ASPIRE retreat will be held January 8-10 at the Granlibakken resort in Tahoe City.  This is the second of our semi-annual offsite meetings, gathering together lab members, sponsors and invited guests to present and review our current status … Continue reading →

TALK: Ivan Godard, Oct 30 at 12pm in 250 Sutardja Dai Hall (242 SD Hall will be overflow room) Speaker: Ivan Godard, Out-of-the-Box Computing Title: Mostly Missless Memory in the Mill CPU Abstract: The Mill is a new CPU architecture … Continue reading →

Ben Recht – UC Berkeley, Wed, Oct 23 from12-1:30pm in 540AB Cory Hall Speaker: Ben Recht – UC Berkeley Title: Engineering Machine Learning Pipelines at Scale Abstract: Recent advances linking machine learning and systems research have enabled the rapid solution … Continue reading →

Wed, Oct 16 at 12pm in 540AB Cory Hall Speaker: Ali Rahimi Title: Auto-Tuning Programs and Designs Abstract: I’ve built a lot computer vision systems, machine learning software, digital hardware, low level system software, and some analog hardware. Building these … Continue reading →

Wed, Oct 9 at 10am in Wozniak Lounge/ 430 Soda Speaker: Julian Shun, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Ligra: A Lightweight Graph Processing Framework for Shared Memory Abstract: There has been significant recent interest in parallel frameworks for processing graphs due … Continue reading →

When: Wednesdays 11:00AM-12:00Noon Where: 380 Soda Hall Web: math.berkeley.edu/~mgu/LAPACKSeminar.htm Date: Oct. 2, 2013 Speaker: Prof. Jim Demmel, UC Berkeley Title: Communication Lower Bounds and Optimal Algorithms for Programs that Reference Arrays Abstract: Our goal is to minimize communication, i.e. moving … Continue reading →

Date: September 30, 2013 from 8:30am – 5pm Location: Banatao Auditorium – Sutardja Dai Hall   The main objective of the Chisel bootcamp is to get groups started using the Chisel hardware design infrastructure and to learn about the 2.0 … Continue reading →

Michael B. Taylor – UCSD,  Talk on Mon, July 29 at 12pm in 430 Soda Speaker: Michael B. Taylor, UC San Diego Title: A Landscape of the New Dark Silicon Design Regime Abstract: Due to the breakdown of Dennard scaling, … Continue reading →

The  first ASPIRE summer retreat will be held June 5-7 at the Chaminade in Santa Cruz.  This is the first of our semi-annual offsite meetings, gathering together lab members, sponsors and invited guests to present and review our current status … Continue reading →