INTEL RESEARCH SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, October 6, 2005
TIME: 12.00 noon – 1.00 pm
PLACE: Intel Seminar (CIC Suite 410)
INTEL
EVENTS PAGE: http://www.intel-research.net/pittsburgh/events.htm
SPEAKER:
Kunle Olukotun
Computer Systems Lab,
Stanford University
TITLE:
Transactions: A New Approach to Programming and Prototyping Parallel
Systems
ABSTRACT:
The most important issue facing future parallel systems is the
difficulty of writing parallel programs to run on them. Transactional
Coherence and Consistency (TCC) is a new way to implement cache
coherency in shared-memory parallel systems by using programmer defined
transactions as the fundamental unit of parallel work, communication,
coherence, consistency and failure atomicity. TCC has the potential to
simplify parallel programming by providing a smooth transition from
sequential programs to parallel programs. In this talk, I will describe
TCC and explain how to develop parallel applications using the TCC
programming model.
I will also briefly describe the architecture of the Stanford Flexible Architecture Research Machine (FARM). FARM is a scalable system based on commercial high-density blade server technology from IBM. FARM is designed to improve the capability of architects and applications developers to experiment with large-scale parallel systems.
BIO:
Kunle Olukotun is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science. Olukotun received his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan.
Olukotun led the Stanford Hydra single-chip multiprocessor research
project which was one of the first microprocessors with multiple
processors on a single silicon chip.
Olukotun founded Afara Websystems to develop commercial server systems with chip multiprocessor technology. Afara was acquired by Sun Microsystems; the Afara microprocessor technology, called Niagara, is now the core of Sun's "Throughput Computing" initiative. Olukotun is actively involved in research in computer architecture, parallel programming environments and scalable parallel systems.
For Further
Seminar Info:
Contact Kim Kaan, 412-605-1203,
or visit http://www.intel-research.net.
SDI / LCS Seminar Questions?
Karen Lindenfelser, 86716, or visit www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/