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Josep Torrellas
Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
TITLE: Multiprocessor Architectures for Speculative Multithreading
ABSTRACT: One of the biggest challenges facing computer architecture today is the design of parallel architectures that make it easy for programmers to write parallel codes. One of the architectural technologies that is showing great versatility and potential in this direction is Speculative Multithreading. In this talk, I will discuss the many uses of this technology in multiprocessors, and its remarkable potential for performance and programmability (Thread-Level Speculation, Speculative Synchronization, Transactional Memory, and BulkSC), hardware reliability (Paceline), and software dependability (ReEnact and Iwatcher).
BIO: Josep Torrellas (http://iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu) is a Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois. Prior to being at Illinois, Torrellas received a PhD from Stanford University. He also spent a year IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Torrellas's research area is multiprocessor computer architecture. He has been involved in the Stanford DASH and the Illinois Cedar multiprocessor projects, and lead the Illinois Aggressive COMA and FlexRAM Intelligent Memory projects.
