Revitalizing Computer Architecture Research

Prof. Mary Jane Irwin
Penn State University. USA

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
1:30PM-2:30PM California Time
4:30PM-5:30PM New York Time
9:30PM-10:30PM UK Time
10:30PM-11:30PM Central Europe Time
11:30PM-12:30AM Eastern Europe Time
5:30AM-6:30AM Japan Time, August 16
6:00AM-7:00AM Adelaide/Australia Time, August 16

The third in the series of Computing Research Association (CRA) Conferences on “Grand Research Challenges” in Computer Science and Engineering was held on December 4-7, 2005, co-chaired by John Shen from Intel and Mary Jane Irwin from Penn State University. This GRC conference focused on the theme of “Revitalizing Computer Architecture Research.” There were a total of 55 participants (15 from industry, 33 from academia, 7 from CRA and NSF) in attendance. The goal of the CRA grand challenge conferences is to determine what are the “grand research challenges” that should be motivating researchers (and funders) in a particular subdiscipline of computer science and engineering. The grand challenges in computer architecture that emerged from this conference were 1) a 1W featherweight supercomputer, 2) popular parallel programming, 3) dependable systems, and 4) new computing models. This talk will briefly define each of the four grand challenges and outline some of the research challenges that computer architects face in meeting them.

Slides (PowerPoint, 2.7MB)