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SUMMARY:A landscape of the new dark silicon design regime
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DESCRIPTION:Michael B. Taylor\, University of California\, San Diego\nThe 
 rise of dark silicon is driving a new class of architectural techniques th
 at “spend” area to “buy” energy efficiency. In this talk I examine
  two new frameworks employed by computer architects to understand the chal
 lenges and opportunities that await us. The first is the utilization wall\
 , a simple model that architects use to understand how technology scaling 
 under post-Dennard assumptions will affect hardware design. The second fra
 mework is the four horsemen taxonomy that comprises four key approaches th
 at future chip designers will use to attack the dark silicon problem. I wi
 ll describe recent research projects that typify these approaches\, includ
 ing GreenDroid\, a massively heterogeneous 28 nm processor being developed
  at UCSD. Finally\, I conclude with some directions (and non-directions) t
 hat the human brain could offer for refactoring the computational stack fo
 r dark silicon.\nBio: I have been a professor in the Department of Compute
 r Science and Engineering at the University of California\, San Diego sinc
 e 2005. I received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science fr
 om MIT. I was lead architect of the 16-core MIT Raw tiled multicore proces
 sor\, one of the earliest multicore processors\, which was commercialized 
 into the Tilera TILE64 architecture. I co-authored the earliest published 
 research on dark silicon\, including a paper that derives the utilization 
 wall that causes dark silicon. More recently\, I wrote the first academic 
 paper on Bitcoin mining chips. My research on dark silicon fed into the IT
 RS 2008 report that led Mike Mueller of ARM to coin the term "dark silicon
 ".
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