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SUMMARY:Design\, Compilation and Runtime Solutions for Energy-Efficient Mi
 croprocessors - Timothy M. Jones - School of Informatics\, University of E
 dinburgh
DTSTART:20081013T130000Z
DTEND:20081013T140000Z
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CONTACT:Mateja Jamnik
DESCRIPTION:For the last 30 years\, Moore's law has delivered an exponenti
 al growth in the number of transistors on an integrated circuit\, enabling
  higher clock frequencies and better processor performance. However\, as t
 ransistor sizes have shrunk\, the amount of energy consumed by each proces
 sor has been increasing steadily. Power is now a first-class design constr
 aint\, requiring sophisticated packaging and cooling systems to be provide
 d that can remove the generated heat from the processor.\n\nThis talk will
  examine recently-proposed schemes to tackle this energy problem at three 
 different stages in a system's life cycle: at design\, compilation and run
 time. It will consider the use of machine learning to design energy-effici
 ent architectures and predict the performance that an optimising compiler 
 can achieve on them. It will also examine a hybrid compilation / runtime s
 cheme that saves energy in the instruction cache through a profile-directe
 d code placement strategy.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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