Beyond Multicore

Over the last decade the evolution of parallel computer architectures has led to the dominance of commercial multi-core systems with up to 8 or so cores on single chip. At one point people speculated about having dozens or even thousands of conventional cores on a chip, but it’s far from clear that such a device could be powered, cooled, or usefully supplied with data. This session will focus on alternative visions of the future and investigate the programming models that they support in hardware and the challenges that targetting these will offer for software designers.

Speaker Details

Dr. Avi Mendelson is the manager of the Academic outreach and external research programs in Microsoft R&D Israel and served as an adjunct professor in the CS and EE departments, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Before, he was a principal engineer at Intel’s Mobile Platform Group in Haifa, Israel. While at Intel, he served as the “CMP architect” of the Core Due and Core Due-2 processors, the first mobile dual core architectures Intel produced. As part of his work in Intel, he also performed different research activities in the areas of power management, new SW/HW interfaces and future computer architectures.

Dr. Avi Mendelson is a member of the ACM Europe council and serves as a member of the advisory board on HiPEAC; European Network of Excellence. He published more than 60 papers in Journals, chapters of books and refereed conferences. His work and research interests are in computer architecture, low power design, parallel systems, OS related issues and virtualization.

Simon Moore is Reader in Computer Architecture at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where he undertakes research and teaching in the general area of computer design with particular interests in massively parallel computer architecture and associated algorithm issues. Dr Moore is the senior member of the Computer Architecture research group.

Date:
Speakers:
Avi Mendelson and Simon Moore
Affiliation:
Technion and Microsoft Israel, University of Cambridge
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