John Goodacre
Kaleao Limited, UK
Reusable Arm computational chiplet with 128bit shared global address space access
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Following on from a number of EU projects, the H2020 funded EuroEXA project includes an activity to tape out in 28nm an Arm computational chiplet. Adhering to the principles of a “compute unit” (DATE2013), this silicon module can be used in various multi-die SoC designs, including compute replication. In addition, through direct ISA maniputions, any node can be given access to read/write/atomic remote memory without the need for cache management on the remote node. This talk will recap the underlaying concepts, and open discussion to the mechanisms being developed to encapsulate and communicate across various interconnect.
Biography
Prof. John Goodacre holds a Professorship in Computer Architectures in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester having recently completing 17 years as the Director of Technology and Systems in ARM Ltd. He also co-founded and is Chief Scientific Officer at Kaleao Limited while also helping the UK government as interim Challenge Director for a major innovation fund to address the chronic insecurity of today’s digital infrastructure. His career has included the realisation of the first scalable commodity telephony platform, the introduction of the first real-time collaboration tools shipped in Microsoft Exchange 2000, while more recently, was responsible for the design and introduction of the ARM MPCore multicore processor and associated technologies. His roles today extend across both academic and industrial research topic, focused around web-scale servers, exascale efficient systems and ubiquitous computing, while also driving forwards the technological vision for the Kaleao systems roadmap. This gives him a unique hardware and software background with experience from embedded to the largest of big data and HPC systems. He sits on various advisory boards at both national and european level and is a frequent conference speaker.