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Ort: Seminar room OMZ (U013, INF 350, floor -1)
Title: Towards Scalable High Performance Computing by Integrating Computing into the Communication Fabric
Abstract: Since the days of Zuse and Turing computers have been divided into the broad functional components of calculation, storage, and interconnect. For almost as long engineers have been trying to gain performance by attempting to integrate these components. Modern data centers are exemplifying this theme with a move from “compute-centric” to “data-centric,” i.e., where computation and communication are no longer localized to CPUs and routers. In the first part of the talk I will give an overview of our work in computing in the network. Broadly, our goal is to expand the frontier of application-oriented communication capabilities, starting with augmenting collectives and advancing to ever more complex network-centric control. Various projects involve SmartNICs and SmartSwitches. In the second part of the talk, as time allows, I will give highlights of our work using long timescale Molecular Dynamics as a strong-scaling case study.
CV: Martin Herbordt received the BA degree in Physics and in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania (where his studies included a year at the LMU in München), and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. His dissertation was on computer architectures for artificial intelligence, but after finding that this topic made him unemployable, he shifted to more general topics in computer systems, often using scientific applications as case studies. Since 2001 Martin has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University where he directs the Computer Architecture and Automated Design lab.