Datacenters of the Future (UT)

Submitted by matt on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 6:06pm.
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04/14/2008 - 3:15pm
04/14/2008 - 5:00pm

Event: Computer Architecture Seminar Series
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch
held jointly with the ECE Distinguished Lecture Series
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/

Speaker: Tilak Agerwala, IBM Research

Title: "Datacenters of the Future"

Date: Monday, April 14, 2008

Time: 3:45 pm

Place: ACES 2.302 **different location**

Coffee: 3:15 pm

Host: Yale Patt

ABSTRACT:

New workloads are creating opportunities for novel optimized computing platforms in the datacenter. Furthermore, modern data centers are growing due to economies of scale and are facing significant challenges around power,
underutilization, and high management cost.

The first part of this presentation will focus on how the requirements of
workload consolidation, real world aware and network optimized computing will
result in a diversity of platforms optimized for power and cost. I will discuss optimal SMP design points, stream processing, and the role of massive muticore and hybrid architectures.

The second part of the presentation will focus on the simplification of systems management. A new "datacenter architecture" is emerging to support massive application growth. This trend, coupled with some key technology trends such as virtualization and autonomic-homogeneous server-ensembles, will lead to fundamental changes in traditional enterprise datacenters. I will describe an exciting "living-lab" we have created IBM Research to explore this new data center architecture.

See:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/cart/arch/
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/