The Bulk Multicore Architecture for Programmability

One of the biggest challenges facing us today is how to design parallel architectures that efficiently support a highly-programmable environment. In this talk, I will present the Bulk Multicore Architecture, a new architecture that is highly programmable, while delivering high performance and keeping the hardware simple. The Bulk Multicore is based on the idea of eliminating the commit of individual instructions. It supports sequential consistency and offers advantages for new software environments and new tool development.

Speaker Details

Josep Torrellas (http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu) is a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois. Prior to being at Illinois, Torrellas received a PhD from Stanford University.He also spent a year IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. Torrellas’s research area is multiprocessor computer architecture. He leads the Illinois Aggressive COMA Multiprocessor group. He has been involved in the Stanford DASH and the Illinois Cedar multiprocessor projects. He has contributed extensively in the area of shared-memory multiprocessor architecture, thread-level speculation, debugging and programmability tools, hardware reliability, and software dependability. He received an NSF Young Investigator Award and several best-paper awards. He is an IEEE Fellow.

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Josep Torrellas
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign