Mastering the Design of Modern Complex Distributed Systems
Event details
| Date | 07.03.2014 |
| Hour | 10:00 |
| Speaker | Dr. Iuliana Bacivarov, ETHZ |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Ever-increasing needs of society for richer functionality have catalyzed the emergence of novel highly-distributed, highly-parallel systems. On-chip multi- and many-core systems embedding up to hundreds of heterogeneous cores are nowadays a reality. Other paradigms such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Autonomous Sensor Networks and Swarms may foster as yet unforeseen applications, by providing ubiquitous, distributed sensing, processing, communication, and actuation. Smart medical devices, smart houses, intelligent environmental and energy monitoring, intelligent transportation, social networks, interconnected together and interacting with each other may soon become standard applications governing our lives. The potential economical and societal impact of such systems is huge, and major investments are being made worldwide to develop the technology.
The past 10 years of my research cover advances on embedded many-core systems. Specifically, system-level design strategies for specifying, analyzing, and optimizing such complex distributed systems were investigated. The key challenge is how to effectively exploit the entire available computational power, and optimize together timing, temperature, and power consumption objectives. Two main aspects were considered (1) when hardware parallelism cannot be fully exploited due to unpredictable, dynamic applications competing for resources or due to a sub-optimal mapping caused by the huge dimensionality of the design space and (2) when computational power does not necessarily translate into high performance as the system runs into the thermal wall. The presentation will answer to these two challenges and will present practical implications when integrating the proposed aspects in a complete and automatic system-level design flow, namely the Distributed Application Layer (http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~euretile) that we have developed at ETH Zürich. My ambition for the next 10 years is to make Cyber-Physical Systems (including Autonomous Systems, Swarms, Smart Systems, and so on) a reality that would drastically improve our lives, relying on new technological advances.
Bio: Dr. Iuliana Bacivarov is a senior research scientist in the Computer Engineering and Networks Lab at ETH Zürich, which she joined as a post-doc in 2006. Before that, she received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in micro and nano-electronics from National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and her B.Sc. in electrical engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 2002.
Dr. Bacivarov’s main research interests are focused on the optimization of applications distributed onto massively parallel architectures, targeting both embedded systems and high performance computing systems. Her work addresses system-level models and methods for programming, analyzing the performance, and optimizing such systems as part of large scale EU-funded projects: SHAPES, EURETILE, PRO3D, COMBEST, and PREDATOR and Swiss nano-tera.ch founded projects: Ultrasound To Go and Extreme. She is coordinating project activities in SHAPES (January 2006-December 2009), EURETILE (started January 2010), and PRO3D (January 2010 – December 2012). Dr. Bacivarov has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications, of which two have received best paper awards and two have been nominated. She is an established researcher in her community, having given more than 35 talks at prestigious international conferences such as DAC, DATE, and ES Week, of which 26 have been invited.
The past 10 years of my research cover advances on embedded many-core systems. Specifically, system-level design strategies for specifying, analyzing, and optimizing such complex distributed systems were investigated. The key challenge is how to effectively exploit the entire available computational power, and optimize together timing, temperature, and power consumption objectives. Two main aspects were considered (1) when hardware parallelism cannot be fully exploited due to unpredictable, dynamic applications competing for resources or due to a sub-optimal mapping caused by the huge dimensionality of the design space and (2) when computational power does not necessarily translate into high performance as the system runs into the thermal wall. The presentation will answer to these two challenges and will present practical implications when integrating the proposed aspects in a complete and automatic system-level design flow, namely the Distributed Application Layer (http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~euretile) that we have developed at ETH Zürich. My ambition for the next 10 years is to make Cyber-Physical Systems (including Autonomous Systems, Swarms, Smart Systems, and so on) a reality that would drastically improve our lives, relying on new technological advances.
Bio: Dr. Iuliana Bacivarov is a senior research scientist in the Computer Engineering and Networks Lab at ETH Zürich, which she joined as a post-doc in 2006. Before that, she received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in micro and nano-electronics from National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and her B.Sc. in electrical engineering from National Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 2002.
Dr. Bacivarov’s main research interests are focused on the optimization of applications distributed onto massively parallel architectures, targeting both embedded systems and high performance computing systems. Her work addresses system-level models and methods for programming, analyzing the performance, and optimizing such systems as part of large scale EU-funded projects: SHAPES, EURETILE, PRO3D, COMBEST, and PREDATOR and Swiss nano-tera.ch founded projects: Ultrasound To Go and Extreme. She is coordinating project activities in SHAPES (January 2006-December 2009), EURETILE (started January 2010), and PRO3D (January 2010 – December 2012). Dr. Bacivarov has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications, of which two have received best paper awards and two have been nominated. She is an established researcher in her community, having given more than 35 talks at prestigious international conferences such as DAC, DATE, and ES Week, of which 26 have been invited.
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- Yusuf Leblebici
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