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SUMMARY:Specialized Evolution of the General Purpose CPU
DTSTART:20161006T120000
DTEND:20161006T130000
DTSTAMP:20260407T183729Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Ravi Rajwar is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation wh
 ere he works on various aspects of CPU and SOC architecture and developmen
 t. Ravi received his M.S. and  Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from th
 e University of Wisconsin-Madison. \nCommodity General Purpose CPUs remai
 n the computing platform of choice for servers. However\, these CPUs conti
 nuously evolve\, incorporating increasingly specialized primitives to keep
  up with the evolving need of critical workloads. Specialization includes 
 support for floating point and vectors\, compression\, encryption\, and sy
 nchronization and threading. These CPUs now have sufficient specialized su
 pport that the term "general purpose" can often be misleading.  This talk
  will discuss the evolution of specialization in general-purpose CPUs\, th
 e trade-offs from an industrial perspective\, and some opportunities for s
 oftware going forward
LOCATION:BC 01 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%2001
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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