Weekly Colloquium | UW-Madison Computer Architecture

Weekly Colloquium

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, 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, 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

Fall 2010

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Tue, 10/12/2010 - 16:30	1221 CS	Andrew Nere	Is it time for an ISA for Neuromorphic Hardware?
Tue, 10/12/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Atif Hashmi	Cortical Microarchitecture: Computing by Abstractions
Fri, 10/08/2010 - 11:00	1240 CS	Emery Berger	Grace: Safe Multithreaded Programming for C/C++
Mon, 10/04/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Simha Sethumadhavan, Columbia University	Tamper Evident Microprocessors
Tue, 09/28/2010 - 11:00	1240 CS	Richard L. Sites, Google	Identifying Dark Latency
Tue, 09/07/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Matt Sinclair, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison	GRASSY: Leveraging GPU Texture Units for Asteroseismic Data Analysis

Summer 2010

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Tue, 06/15/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Yasuko Watanabe / Dan Gibson	ISCA Practice Talks (WiDGET / Forwardflow)

Spring 2010

Date	Location	Speaker	Talk Title	Talk Slides
Fri, 05/21/2010 - 11:00	1221 CS	Alexandra Fedorova	Joys of Scheduling on Multicore Processors
Tue, 04/27/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Seth Hain, Epic Systems	Configuring Systems for Epic’s Largest Customers
Thu, 04/22/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Derek Chiou, University of Texas at Austin	Converging Architecture, Implementation, and Software Development through Parallelized Simulators
Tue, 04/13/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Tony Gregerson, UW-Madison	Computing at a Big Bang Simulator: Real-time Processing for the Large Hadron Collider
Wed, 03/10/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Andrew Nere, UW-Madison / Marc Lupon, Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya	Cortical Architectures on a GPGPU / A Log-based Hardware Transactional Memory with Fast Abort Recovery
Tue, 03/02/2010 - 16:00	1221 CS	Stark Draper, UW-Madison	62 years of error-correction coding (efficient & reliable digital storage)
Thu, 02/18/2010 - 16:00	1221CS	Milo Martin, Univ of Pennsylvania	Secure Low-Level Programming via Hardware-Assisted Memory-Safe C	martin-talk-Fall-2009.pptx
Tue, 02/16/2010 - 16:00	1221CS	Dan Ernst, Univ of Wisconsin - Eau Claire	Parallelism Is Everywhere: So How Do We Make It Accessible?

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Summer 2009

Spring 2009