Title: Performance harvesting in the post Moore era
Abstract:
As long as Moore's law has been around, new computer applications have
blossomed, and everyday life nowadays is strongly based on some sort
of iteration with hidden or explicit computers. Technology scaling (or
Moore's law) allowed integration of more devices, with benefits in
speed and energy. As Moore's law loses steam, software development
faces new challenges, because the lack of faster and more efficient
processors can compromise the much needed evolution in new application
domains like self driven vehicles and service automation.
As the software problem increases, one must allow scalability of the
hardware to solve a bigger problem in a constant time, or to solve the
same problem in a shorter time, without changing the software base or
requiring extensive software modifications. In this talk we will
discuss Performance Harvesting, a way to sustain Moore's law even
without technology help, for the next generation computer
applications.
Bio: Luigi Carro received the
Electrical Engineering and the MSc degrees from Universidade Federal
do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, in 1985 and 1989, respectively.
From 1989 to 1991 he worked at ST-Microelectronics, Agrate, Italy, in
the R&D group. In 1996 he received the Dr. degree in the area of
Computer Science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
(UFRGS), Brazil. He is presently a full professor at the Applied
Informatics Department at the Informatics Institute of UFRGS, in
charge of Computer Architecture and Organization. He has advised more
than 20 graduate students, and has published more than 150 technical
papers on those topics. He has authored the book Digital systems Design and
Prototyping (2001-in Portuguese) and is the co-author of
Fault-Tolerance Techniques for SRAM-based FPGAs (2006-Springer),
Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent optimization
Techniques (2010-Springer) and Adaptive Systems (Springer 2012). In
2007 he received the prize FAPERGS - Researcher of the year in
Computer Science. His most updated resume is located in
http://lattes.cnpq.br/8544491643812450.
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