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SUMMARY:Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Co
 llision Course - Babak Falsafi\, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de
  Lausanne
DTSTART:20130918T133000Z
DTEND:20130918T143000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:Information technology is now an indispensable pillar of a mod
 ern-day society\, thanks to the proliferation of digital platforms in the 
 past several decades. We are now witnessing two inflection points\, howeve
 r\, that are about to change IT as we know it. First\, we are entering the
  Big Data or the Data Deluge era where demand on robust and economical dat
 a processing\, communication and storage is growing faster than technology
  can sustain. Second\, while forecasts indicate that chip density scaling 
 will continue for another decade\, the diminishing returns in supply volta
 ge scaling and the impending "energy wall"\, is leading server designers t
 owards energy-centric solutions and eventually Dark Silicon. In this talk\
 , I will motivate these two IT trends and present promising research avenu
 es to bridge the gap between Big Data IT resource demands and energy effic
 iency of server platforms.
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 21 Station Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB1 2FB
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