Abstract

The future supercomputers on a chip, according to many research efforts, should include a small number of multi-cores (e.g., 4), a large number of many-cores (e.g., 4000), a fixed systolic array for the most frequent algorithms of the targeted application (e.g., Machine Learning), and a reconfigurable dataflow engine for a large plethora of less frequent algorithms (e.g., General AI). The crucial part is the dataflow engine, and it has to be carefully tuned to both the targeted applications and the implementation technology, which is the focus of this presentation.

Bio

Prof. Veljko Milutinovic received his PhD from the University of Belgrade in Serbia, spent about a decade on various faculty positions in the USA (mostly at Purdue University and more recently at the University of Indiana in Bloomington), and was a co-designer of the DARPAs pioneering GaAs RISC microprocessor on 200MHz (about a decade before the first commercial effort on that same speed) and was a co-designer also of the related GaAs Systolic Array (with 4096 GaAs microprocessors). Later, for almost three decades, he taught and conducted research at the University of Belgrade in Serbia, for departments of EE, MATH, BA, and PHYS/CHEM. His research is mostly in datamining algorithms and dataflow computing, with the emphasis on mapping of data analytics algorithms onto fast energy efficient architectures. Most of his research was done in cooperation with industry (Intel, Fairchild, Honeywell, Maxeler, HP, IBM, NCR, RCA, etc... ). For 10 of his books, forewords were written by 10 different Nobel Laureates with whom he cooperated on his past industry sponsored projects. He published 40 books (mostly in the USA), he has over 100 papers in SCI journals (mostly in IEEE and ACM journals), and he presented invited talks at over 400 destinations worldwide. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE since 2003 and a Member of The Academy of Europe since 2011. He is a member of the Serbian National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Montenegro National Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Host

Gerhard Klimeck, gekco@purdue.edu