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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Enabling Hyperscale Web Services
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DESCRIPTION:By: Akshitha Sriraman - University of Michigan\nIC Faculty can
 didate\n\nAbstract\nCurrent hardware and software systems were conceived a
 t a time when we had scarce compute and memory resources\, limited quantit
 y of data and users\, and easy hardware performance scaling due to Moore's
  Law. These assumptions are not true today. Today\, emerging web services
  require data centers that scale to hundreds of thousands of servers\, i.e
 .\, hyperscale\, to efficiently process requests from billions of users. 
 In this new era of hyperscale computing\, we can no longer afford to build
  each layer of the systems stack separately. Instead\, we must rethink the
  synergy between the software and hardware worlds from the ground up.\n \
 nIn this talk\, I will focus on re-thinking (1) software threading and co
 ncurrency paradigms and (2) data center hardware architectures. First\, 
 I will describe μTune\, my software threading framework that is aware of
  the overheads induced by the underlying hardware's constraints. Then\, I 
 will discuss SoftSKU and Accelerometer—my proposals to answer the que
 stion of: How should we build data center hardware for emerging software p
 aradigms in the post-Moore era? Finally\, I will conclude by describing m
 y ongoing and future research towards re-designing the systems stack to en
 able the hyperscale web services of tomorrow.\n\nBio\nAkshitha Sriraman is
  a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University o
 f Michigan. Her research bridges computer architecture and software system
 s\, demonstrating the importance of that bridge in realizing efficient hyp
 erscale web services via solutions that span the systems stack. Her system
 s solutions to improve hardware efficiency have been deployed in real hype
 rscale data centers and currently serve billions of users\, saving million
 s of dollars and meaningfully reducing the global carbon footprint. Additi
 onally\, her hardware design proposals have influenced Intel's Alder Lake+
  CPU architectures.\n \nSriraman has been recognized with a Facebook Fell
 owship\, a Rackham Merit Ph.D. Fellowship\, and was selected for the Risin
 g Stars in EECS Workshop. Her work has been recognized with an IEEE Micro
  Top Picks distinction and has appeared in top architecture and systems ve
 nues like OSDI\, ISCA\, ASPLOS\, MICRO\, and HPCA. \n\nMore information\n
  
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81525883989?pwd=SCs4YlhMdisvM1FtOFk2NS9sRy
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