Specialized Evolution of the General Purpose CPU
Event details
| Date | 06.10.2016 |
| Hour | 12:00 › 13:00 |
| Speaker | Dr Ravi Rajwar is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation where he works on various aspects of CPU and SOC architecture and development. Ravi received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Commodity General Purpose CPUs remain the computing platform of choice for servers. However, these CPUs continuously 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 synchronization and threading. These CPUs now have sufficient specialized support that the term "general purpose" can often be misleading. This talk will discuss the evolution of specialization in general-purpose CPUs, the trade-offs from an industrial perspective, and some opportunities for software going forward
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Professor Anastasia Ailamaki
Contact
- Dimitra Tsaoussis-Melissargos