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SUMMARY:Toward server efficiency in the post-Dennard era
DTSTART:20160701T160000
DTEND:20160701T180000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Arash Pourhabibi\nEDIC Candidacy Exam\nExam President: Prof. P
 aolo Ienne\nThesis Director: Prof. Babak Falsafi\nCo-examiner: Prof. Chris
 tos Kozyrakis\nBackground papers:Is Dark Silicon Useful? by M. Bedford Tay
 lor. The ACM Digital Library.Toward Dark Silicon in Servers\, by N. Hardav
 ellas\, et al.Web Search Using Mobile Cores\, by V. Janapa Reddi\, et al. 
 The ACM Digital Library. Abstract:\nThe popularity of online services driv
 es need for bigger datacenters with more server processors. As Moore's law
  continues\, the number of transistors on chip rises exponentially\, enabl
 ing us to have CMPs with hundreds of cores. However\, due to the breakdown
  of Dennard's scaling\, we cannot power up all of them at the same time. H
 ence\, soon we will enter an era of "dark silicon"\, in which we cannot po
 wer up our fast and dense processors. In this work\, we explore the potent
 ial directions to improve energy efficiency of server processors in the po
 st-Dennard era. Moreover\, we investigate the hardware- and software-relat
 ed constraints of designing a server processor for modern cloud services\,
  and we propose an approach to design energy efficient server processors.
LOCATION:BC 229 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20229
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