Weekly Colloquium | UW-Madison Computer Architecture

Weekly Colloquium

Spring 2014

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Tue, 05/13/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Theo Dahlen and Daniel Ross	Soul of a new 552 machine
Tue, 05/06/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Dileep Bhandarkar	My 40-Year Journey from Mainframes to Smartphones
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 16:30	CS 1240	Professor Karin Strauss	Tolerating Holes in Wearable Memories
Tue, 04/29/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Professor Luis Ceze	Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware, and Beyond
Tue, 04/08/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Professor Engin Ipek	Associative Computing with Emerging Nonvolatile Memories
Tue, 04/01/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Professor Jignesh Patel	Towards hardware-software co-design for data processing: A plea and a proposal
Tue, 03/25/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Professor Karu Sankaralingam	Memory Access Dataflow
Tue, 03/11/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Professor Margaret Martonosi	Power-Aware Computing: Then, Now, and into the Future
Tue, 03/04/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Prof Yoav Etsion	Single-Graph Multiple Flows: A Dataflow Architecture For Massively Parallel Programming Models
Tue, 02/25/2014 - 16:00	CS 1240	Mike Marty	Toward Microsecond Computing In The Warehouse

Fall 2013

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Tue, 12/03/2013 - 16:30	CS 1221	Jason Powers	[MICRO Practice talk] Heterogeneous System Coherence for Integrated CPU-GPU Systems
Tue, 12/03/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Raghuraman Balasubramanian	[MICRO Practice talk] Virtually-Aged Sampling DMR: Unifying Circuit Failure Prediction and Circuit Failure Detection
Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:30	CS 1221	Arslan Zulfiqar	[MICRO Practice Talk] Wavelength Stealing: An Opportunistic Approach to Channel Sharing in Multi-chip Photonic Interconnects
Tue, 11/26/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Somayeh Sardahsti	[MICRO Practice Talk]Decoupled Compressed Cache: Exploiting Spatial Locality for Energy-Optimized Compressed Caching
Tue, 10/29/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Professor Martha Kim	The Design and Implementation of a Database Processing Unit
Tue, 10/15/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Professor Michael Ferris	Some things a Computer Architect needs to know about Mathematical Optimization
Tue, 10/08/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Professor Milo Martin, Professor Thomas Wenisch	Computational Sprinting
Fri, 09/27/2013 - 12:00	CS 1240	Professor Arvind	Dangers Of Simplified Architectural Models In Multicore Research
Tue, 09/10/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Professor Mark D. Hill	21st Century Computer Architecture
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Venkatraman Govindaraju	Breaking SIMD Shackles With An Exposed Flexible Microarchitecture And The Access Execute PDG

Spring 2013

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Tue, 03/12/2013 - 16:00	CS 1240	Prof. Kathryn Mckinley	The Yin and Yang of Hardware Heterogeneity: Can Software Survive?
Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:00	CS 1240	Newsha Ardalani	Linear Regression Models
Tue, 02/19/2013 - 16:00	CS 1240	Andrew Nere	HPCA Practice talk : Bridging the Semantic Gap: Emulating Biological Neuronal Behaviors with Simple Digital Neurons
Tue, 02/12/2013 - 16:00	CS 1221	Jai Menon	Power Struggles: Revisiting the RISC vs. CISC Debate on Contemporary ARM and x86 Architectures

Fall 2012

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Tue, 12/18/2012 - 12:00		Kerry	Test
Tue, 10/23/2012 - 16:00	1240 CS	Mark Hill	Why On-Chip Cache Coherence is Here to Stay
Tue, 10/09/2012 - 16:00	1240 CS	David Hansquine	Computing Trends & The Mobile Experience
Tue, 10/02/2012 - 16:00	1240 CS	Boris Grot	Scale out Processors
Tue, 09/25/2012 - 16:00	1240 CS	Karu Sankaralingam	Brave new world of Arduino
Thu, 09/13/2012 - 16:00	1221 CS	Greg Wright	Mobile = low power? A server guy's journey to the low end

Spring 2012

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Tue, 12/18/2012 (All day)		Matthew Perry	End of Moores law
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Arka Basu	Reducing Memory Reference Energy with Opportunistic Virtual Caching - ISCA Practice talk
Tue, 03/27/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Emily Blem, Jai Menon	ISA Wars
Tue, 03/20/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Joel Hestness	Netrace
Tue, 03/06/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Lena Olson	Address Translation in Virtualized Systems
Tue, 02/28/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Jayneel Gandhi	FabScalar: Composing Synthesizable RTL Designs of Arbitrary Cores within a Canonical Superscalar Template
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Atif Hashmi	A case for abstract yet accurate cortical models
Tue, 02/14/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Derek Hower	Acoherent Shared Memory
Tue, 02/07/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Karu Sankaralingam	The DySER Architecture: Continuing the Faster, Smaller, Greener Paradigm of Microprocessors
Tue, 01/31/2012 - 16:00	CS 1221	Emily Blem	Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling.

Fall 2011

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Wed, 11/30/2011 - 16:00	CS 1221	Marc de Kruijf and Gagan Gupta	Practice MICRO Talks Round 2
Tue, 11/29/2011 - 16:00	CS 1221	Mark Hill	Efficiently Enabling Conventional Block Sizes for Very Large Die-stacked DRAM Caches (MICRO talk)
Thu, 11/17/2011 - 16:00	CS 1221	Atif Hashmi	Cortical Columns: A Non Von Neumann Computational Abstraction (Practice Defense Talk)
Thu, 11/10/2011 - 11:00	1240 CS	Rajit Manohar	Asynchronous Computer Arithmetic
Tue, 10/18/2011 - 16:00	1240 CS	Eftychios Sifakis	Hardware-conscious algorithm design for interactive physics simulation: Are theoretical research directions and software practices influenced by architectural traits of parallel platforms? (or can they afford not to?)
Wed, 10/12/2011 - 16:00	1240 CS	John Davis	AMMP: Accurately Modeling and Managing Power for the Data Center
Tue, 10/11/2011 - 16:00	1240 CS	Edward Suh	Hardware-Assisted Run-Time Program Monitoring for Trustworthy Computing Systems
Tue, 09/27/2011 - 16:00	1240 CS	José Martínez	Self-Optimizing Microprocessors: A Machine Learning Approach
Thu, 09/22/2011 - 16:00	1240 CS	Min Xu	Building Datacenter Servers Using Cell Phone Chips
Tue, 09/20/2011 - 16:00	1240 CS	Jai Menon and Raghu Balasubramanian	Summer RA Talk 2

Spring 2011

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 16:00	1240 CS	Mark D. Hill	The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?
Tue, 02/08/2011 - 16:00	CS 1221	Polina Dudnik & Chen-han Ho	Calvin: Deterministic or Not? Free Will to Choose

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Spring 2010