Hot Chips

Morning Tutorial

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Part 2:

• Managing the Evolution of Flash: beyond Memory to Storage
  Tony Kim Director, Technical Marketing Mobile/Flash Solution Team Lead Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
• Forging a Future in Memory - NewTechnologies, New Markets, New Applications
  Ed Doller V.P. & Chief Memory Systems Architect
  Corporate Vice President
  Micron Technology, Inc.
• Status and Prospect for MRAM Technology
  Dr. Saied Tehrani, Chief Operating Officer
  Everspin Technologies, Inc.
• Metal Oxide RRAM as a Future Non-Volatile Memory Technology
  Dr. Paul Kirsch SEMATECH
• The Inevitable Rise of Nonvolatile Memory in Computing
  Jim Handy Founder/President Objective Analysis
• Storage Class Memory: Technology, Systems and Applications
  Dr. Richard Freitas, IBM Almaden Research Center

Afternoon Tutorial

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Part 2:

Optical Interconnect

Chairs: Ron Ho (Oracle) and Rick Hetherington (Oracle)

• Introduction
• Overview of silicon photonic technologies, from VCSELs to silicon nanophotonics
  Dr. Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Oracle.
• Case study #1: Silicon photonics in the data center
  Professor Al Davis, Utah/HP Labs.
• Case study #2: Silicon photonics and memories
  Professor Vladimir Stojanovic, MIT.
• Case study #3: Hybrid on-chip data networks
  Gil Hendry, Columbia University.
• Case study #4: Some design considerations
  Frankie Liu, PhD, VLSI Research Group, Sun Labs, Oracle.

Intro/Opening Remarks

Session 1

Session 1: High Performance Computing (Session chair: Bill Lynch, Huawei)

• Fermi GF100, A Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Architecture For Compute, Tessellation, Physics, And Computational Graphics
  Authors: Craig Wittenbrink, Emmett Kilgariff and Arjun Prabhu
  Affiliations: NVIDIA
• Surviving the End of Scaling of Traditional Microprocessors in HPC
  Authors: Olav Lindtjorn, Robert G. Clapp, Oliver Pell, Oskar Mencer and Michael J. Flynn
  Affiliations: Schlumberger, Stanford
• Harnessing the Adaptive Energy Management Features of the POWER7 chip
  Authors: Michael Floyd, Bishop Brock, Malcolm Ware, Karthick Rajamani, Alan Drake, Charles Lefurgy and Lorena Pesantez
  Affiliations: IBM

Keynote 1

Keynote 1: Searches originating Inside and Outside of your Head (Augmented Reality and Visual Search)

Speaker : Dr David Petrou, Google

Session 2

Session 2: SoCS (Session Chair: Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford)

• The New Xbox 360 SoC
  Authors: Rune Jensen
  Affiliations: Microsoft Corporation
• Extensions to the ARMv7-A Architecture
  Authors: David Brash
  Affiliations: ARM
• Transcede™: Solving 4G Challenges for Pico, Micro and Macrocell Platforms
  Authors: Jim Johnston, CTO, Communications Convergence Processing, Mindspeed Technolgies, Inc.
  Affiliations: Mindspeed Technologies Inc.
• GreenDroid: A Mobile Application Processor for a Future of Dark Silicon
  Authors: Nathan Goulding, Jack Sampson, Ganesh Venkatesh, Saturnino Garcia, Joe Auricchio, Jonathan Babb, Michael Taylor and Steven Swanson
  Affiliations: University of California, San Diego and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Session 3

Session 3: Networking & Data Center (Session Chair: Krste Asanovic, UC Berkeley)

• The IBM PowerEN™ Processor: 16 Power™ Cores With Hardware Acceleration
  Authors: Jeffrey Brown Charlie Johnson
  Affiliations: IBM
• Smart Memory for High Performance Network Packet Forwarding
  Authors: Bill Lynch and Sailesh Kumar
  Affiliations: Huawei Technologies, USA
• Demonstration of a High Speed 4-Channel Integrated Silicon Photonics WDM Link With Hybrid Silicon Lasers
  Speaker: Andrew Alduino
  Affiliations: Intel

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion (Chair: Forest Baskett, NEA)

Asia: Partner or competitor?

Chair: Forest Baskett, , General Partner, New Enterprise Associates

Panelists:

• Craig Barratt, President & CEO, Atheros Communications, Inc.
• Leo Li, President & CEO, Spreadtrum Communications Inc.
• Tom Malloy, SVP & Chief Software Architect, Advanced Technology Labs, Adobe Systems Inc.
• Ford Tamer, CEO, Telegent Systems, Inc.

Session 4

Session 4: FPGAs (Session Chair: Pradeep Dubey, Intel)

• Xilinx 28nm generation programmable families
  Authors: Brad Taylor, Rick Crotty, Greg Starr and Ralph Wittig
  Affiliations: Xilinx
• Stratix V with 28Gbps Transceivers in 28nm
  Authors: Dan Mansur
  Affiliations: Altera
• 3D FPGA for Improved Density, Power and Performance
  Speaker: Raminda Madurawe
  Affiliations: Tier Logic

Session 5

Session 5: Interconnects (Session chair: Bill Dally, Stanford/NVIDIA)

• Silicon Photonics: Optical Connectivity at 25 Gbps and Beyond
  Authors: Brian Welch
  Affiliations: Luxtera
• ICC: An interconnect controller for the Tofu interconnect architecture 
  Authors: Takashi Toyoshima
  Affiliations: Fujitsu Limited
• The IBM Hub Module in 45nm CMOS SOI: A Terabyte Interconnect Switch for High-Performance Computer Systems
  Authors: Scott Clark, Baba Arimilli, Ben Drerup, Jerry Lewis, John Irish, David Krolak, Kerry Imming, Joe McDonald and Andreas Koenig, Daniel Dreps, David Siljenberg, Steve Baumgartner, Glen Wiedemeier, Jim Strom, Dan OConnor, Andrew Maki, Dhaval Sejpal, Mark Ritter, Dave Friend and Charlie Geer
  Affiliations: IBM
• Spidergon STNoC: the technology that gives an added value to your System
  Authors: Marcello Coppola
  Affiliations: STMicroelectronics

Keynote 2

Keynote 2: Looking at Transportation in New Ways

What does mobility look like in the future?

Burkhard Huhnke, VWGoA, Electronics Research Lab, Palo Alto, CA

Session 6

Session 6: Servers (Session Chair: Alan Smith, UC Berkeley)

• Westmere-EX: A 20 Thread Server CPU
  Authors: Dheemanth Nagaraj and Sailesh Kottapalli
  Affiliations: Intel
• Architectural Innovations in WSM-EP
  Authors: Muntaquim Chowdhury, Derek Bachand, Dave Hill, Erik Hallnor, Barry Huntley, Brent Boswell and Rajesh Parthasarathy
  Affiliations: Intel
• GS464V: A High-Performance Low-Power XPU with 512-Bit Vector Extension
  Authors: Weiwu Hu and Yunji Chen
  Affiliations: Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Session 7

Session 7: New Processor Architectures (Session Chair: Bevan Baas, UC Davis)

• The Next-generation System z Micro-Processor
  Authors: Brian Curran
  Affiliations: IBM
• AMD "Bulldozer" Core - a new approach to multithreaded compute performance for maximum efficiency and throughput
  Authors: Mike Butler
  Affiliations: AMD
• AMD's "Bobcat" x86 Core - Small, Efficient and Strong
  Authors: Brad Burgess
  Affiliations: AMD

Closing Remarks