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Ty

pe of Talk: UTCS Colloquium/Architecture

Speaker/Affiliation: Davi

d Brooks/Harvard

Date/Time: Monday September 8 2008 3:30 p.m.

Location: ACES 2.402

Host: Steve Keckler

Talk Title: C

omputer Design in the Nanometer Scale Era: Challenges and Solutions

Talk Abstract:
Technology scaling has enabled tremendous growth
in

the computing industry over the past few decades.
However recent tren

ds in power dissipation reliability
thermal constraints and device v

ariability threaten to
limit the continued benefits of device scaling

curtail
performance improvements and cause increased
leakage powe

r in future technology generations.
The temporal and spatial scales of
these effects
motivate holistic solutions that span the circuit
a

rchitecture and software layers. In this talk I will
describe severa

l ongoing projects that seek to address
technology scaling issues. Th

ese projects include efforts
in the areas of a) power and performance m

odeling and
design space optimization for future chip-multiprocessor systems b) variability- tolerant design of memory hierarchies
and c

issues for embedded and high-performance computer systems.