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Speaker:

Prof. Gerhard P. Fettweis, TU Dresden, Germany

Title:

The HAEC Research Center: Highly Adaptive Energy Efficient Computing

Abstract:

Massive Computing is on the horizon, with billions of cores to be embedded in any car, robot, and many other devices. If we were to connect N cores with a fully connected interconnect we were in need of implementing N*(N-1)/2 communications links. This clearly is unfeasible. However, what can be reasonably well done? To harvest the computing power we need to implement a level of connectivity among cores which is unheard of today. However, we also need to develop technology from application software via operating system down to hardware to adapt computing systems towards low energy consumption.
At TU Dresden we are addressing these needs within a collaborative research center. A novel holistic approach is followed that considers hardware as well as software resources to significantly increase energy efficiency, while suitably addressing application demands. The research is divided in two closely connected research groups encompassing more than 25 principal investigators and their teams. They comprise research challenges requiring leading expertise from electrical engineering and computer science. HAEC-A focuses on hardware architectures that offer high adaptivity and monitoring capabilities, required for systems to be highly tunable towards energy efficiency. In this context, a novel highly adaptive and energy-efficient interconnection architecture is being be explored. HAEC-B focuses on the software side that needs to make use of the new degrees of hardware adaptivity, while hiding complexity from application developers and that needs to be able to monitor energy consumption in order to maximize efficiency with run-time measures. The HAEC center has already started (Jul 1st 2011). We believe it can significantly add to the advancement of energy efficient computing, and provide solutions for embedded systems of the future. www.tu-dresden.de/sfb912

Bio:

Gerhard P. Fettweis earned his Ph.D. under H. Meyr's supervision from RWTH Aachen in 1990. After one year at IBM Research in San Jose, CA, he moved to TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA. Since 1994 he is Vodafone Chair Professor at TU Dresden, Germany, with 20 companies from Asia/Europe/US sponsoring his research on wireless transmission and chip design. He coordinates 2 DFG centers at TU Dresden, namely cfaed and HAEC. Gerhard is IEEE Fellow, member of the German academy acatech, and his most recent award is the Stuart Meyer Memorial Award from IEEE VTS. In Dresden he has spun-out eleven start-ups, and setup funded projects in volume of close to EUR 1/2 billion. He has helped organizing IEEE conferences, most notably as TPC Chair of ICC 2009 and of TTM 2012, and as General Chair of VTC Spring 2013 and DATE 2014.



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