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SUMMARY:PERCS 
DTSTART:20121205T020000
DTEND:20121205T031500
DTSTAMP:20260406T185357Z
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DESCRIPTION:Ram Rajamony\nIBM Research\nAbstract: \nIn 2001\, the U.S. Def
 ense Advanced Research Projects Agency called for the creation of commerci
 ally viable computing systems that would be both highly productive and hig
 h performing. IBM's response to this challenge was called the Productive E
 asy-to-use Reliable Computing System (PERCS) and is offered by IBM as the 
 P775 high-performance computing system. PERCS achieves significantly highe
 r efficiencies when compared to other state-of-the-art high-performance co
 mputing systems\, especially on workloads that require communication. It d
 oes so through tight integration of compute\, interconnect\, storage\, and
  software elements. This talk will describe the PERCS architecture\, some 
 of the design decisions that went into its creation\, and illustrate syste
 m characteristics that can be exploited for high performance and productiv
 ity.\n\nBiography\nRam Rajamony is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research
  in Austin TX. He received a B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from 
 the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1989\, and a Ph.D. degree fro
 m Rice University in 1998. Ram is the primary lead for performance on the 
 DARPA-sponsored PERCS project and has had a significant role in its design
 \, implementation\, test\, as well as in application development. He has r
 eceived multiple awards from IBM for his work on high-performance computin
 g and has authored or coauthored more than 25 patents and 25 technical pap
 ers. Dr. Rajamony was designated an IBM Master Inventor in 2008 and is a m
 ember of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is also coaching a te
 am of 9-year old kids for a First Lego League competition\, a task that is
  proving to be considerably harder than all the PERCS work he has done.
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
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