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"The Beagle Board is a low-power, low-cost Single-board computer produced by Texas Instruments in association with Digi-Key, designed with open source development in mind, to demonstrate the Texas Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-a-chip. The board was developed by a small team of TI engineers." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Board

Date

December 5, 2009 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Links

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Date

November 24, 2009 - 4:00pm

Links

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/abstracts/1352.html

Location

In the near term, Moore's law will continue to provide an increasing number of transistors and therefore an increasing number of on-chip cores. Limited pin bandwidth prevents the integration of a large number of memory controllers on-chip. With many cores, and few memory controllers, where to locate the memory controllers in the on-chip interconnection fabric becomes an important and as yet unexplored question. In this paper we show how the location of the memory controllers can reduce contention (hotspots) in the on-chip fabric and lower the variance in reference latency. This in turn provides predictable performance for memory-intensive applications regardless of the processing core on which a thread is scheduled. We explore the design space of on-chip fabrics to find optimal memory controller placement relative to different topologies (i.e., mesh and torus), routing algorithms, and workloads. 

Date

October 13, 2009 - 3:30pm

Links

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/abstracts/1330.html

Location

  Companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo are building  several
  large  data  centers containing tens of thousands of machines to provide the
  computational capability to support  a  variety  of  web  services  such  as
  search,  email,  and online shopping. Energy costs for operating and cooling

Date

July 22, 2009 - 11:00am - 1:00pm

Links

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/abstracts/1296.html

Location

Computational requirement is characterized by a wide range of diverse appli-
  cations. This wide range of applications is  applicable  to  all   computing
  markets  (e.g. Mobile, Desktop and Server). In many cases these applications
  coexist and run simultaneously on a specific system. The applications differ
  from  each  other  by  their  practical  requirements  e.g. performance, BW,
  latency, power limitation, performance/power requirement, QoS,  differential
  services  etc.  Essentially, these requirements are asymmetric/Heterogeneous
  and calls for reciprocal HW/OS implementation to enable a better response to
  the applications' need.

  On  the  other hand, device's power limitation will drive for Asymmetric HW.

Date

June 18, 2009 - 11:00am

Links

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/abstracts/1281.html

Location