An Afternoon Discussion: Multicore Processors
DATE: March 4, 2008 @ Noon - 1:30 PM
LOCATION: Meshel Hall, Room 337
PRESENTATIONS
- Student Presentation: Programming Multicore Processors
- Special Presentation: Architecture of the UltraSparc T1 and T2
ARTIFACTS:
On March 4th the YSU-ACM held there 2nd colloquium on hardware. The student
presentation was given by Tracey Hughes, our website administrator. Her presentation
discussed programming multicore processors.
Each attendee was given a resource package that contained:
The special prize giveaway at the end of the presentation was two jump drives and an introductory book on Parallel Programming.
A special presentation was given by Dr. Kriss Schueller. He gave a 40 minute presentation on the achitecture of the Sun's UltraSparc T1 (RISC technology). He discussed the processor's target market being commercial servers applications. He also discussed the concerns for data centers, metrics and Sun's approach to multicore, cache, multiithreading and pipelines. He outlined the major breakkthroughs of Sun Multicores processors leading the industry in lowest power consumption, threaded software and chips.
Dr. Kriss Schueller is a professor of computer science. He teaches various courses of upper level computer science with an emphasis on Computer Organization and Architecture courses.
Each attendee was given a resource package that contained:
- Definition of Multicore Processors
- Diagrams of the Architectures of the Opteron, UltraSparc T1, Cell Broadband Engine and Cell Core 2 Duo
- Sample of a simple PTHREAD program
The special prize giveaway at the end of the presentation was two jump drives and an introductory book on Parallel Programming.
Dr. Kriss Schueller: UltraSparc T1 Architecture
A special presentation was given by Dr. Kriss Schueller. He gave a 40 minute presentation on the achitecture of the Sun's UltraSparc T1 (RISC technology). He discussed the processor's target market being commercial servers applications. He also discussed the concerns for data centers, metrics and Sun's approach to multicore, cache, multiithreading and pipelines. He outlined the major breakkthroughs of Sun Multicores processors leading the industry in lowest power consumption, threaded software and chips.
Dr. Kriss Schueller is a professor of computer science. He teaches various courses of upper level computer science with an emphasis on Computer Organization and Architecture courses.