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SUMMARY:System-Level Management of Hybrid Accelerators - Prof. Katherine C
 ompton\, University of Wisconsin
DTSTART:20120315T113000Z
DTEND:20120315T123000Z
UID:TALK36988@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Prof Simon Moore
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Heterogeneous systems that incorporate one or more\n
 accelerators with one or more traditional CPUs have the potential to\nhave
  significantly improved performance and/or energy compared to\nhomogeneous
  systems. Homogeneity follows a "one size somewhat fits all"\ndesign parad
 igm\, whereas heterogeneity instead provides resources with\nvarious chara
 cteristics\, and the ability to implement a computation on\nthe system res
 ource best suited to that computation. My research group\nhas focused on s
 ystem-level management of these heterogeneous\naccelerators. In particular
  we examine the case where the accelerators\nare composed of reconfigurabl
 e logic similar to FPGAs. We examine\ntechniques to allocate and schedule 
 reconfigurable logic in a\nmulti-tasking system where multiple (possibly u
 nrelated) applications\nmay simultaneously compete for the resources. In t
 his talk I will give\nan overview of our approach and discuss some of the 
 issues involved in\nthis type of work. I will also present our efforts to 
 balance the\ncompute ability of applications in a system where those appli
 cations do\nnot benefit equally from the accelerator resources.\n\n\nBio: 
 Katherine Compton is an Associate Professor at the University of\nWisconsi
 n in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She\nreceived 
 her BS\, MS\, and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical\nand Compu
 ter Engineering at Northwestern University in 1998\, 2000\, and\n2003\, re
 spectively. Her research interests include heterogeneous\, GPGPU\,\nand re
 configurable computing systems--in particular the subject of\nresource man
 agement. She is also interested in the architecture of these\nsystems. She
  has been the program chair of the IEEE Conference on\nField-Programmable 
 Custom Computing Machines (FCCM)\, and the ACM/SIGDA\nSymposium on Field-P
 rogrammable Gate Arrays (FPGA). She was recently the\nGeneral Chair for FP
 GA as well\, and is currently one of the publicity\nchairs for the Interna
 tional Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and\nApplications (FPL) to b
 e held in Oslo in August.\n
LOCATION:SC04\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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