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When: October 18, 2023 7:00PM EDT (6:30PM for Q&A)<br>
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Topic: Short Takes: CXL in High Performance Computing; and the UCIe
Standard for Chip Design<br>
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Speaker: Kurt Keville, Shankar Viswanathan<br>
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Location: Online: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meet.jit.si/blu.org">https://meet.jit.si/blu.org</a><br>
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Live stream: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtube.com/live/DTcRPqLabxc?feature=share">https://youtube.com/live/DTcRPqLabxc?feature=share</a><br>
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Summary:<br>
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<blockquote
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developments in HPC and Chip Design, and various projects from the
2023 Student Cluster Competition</blockquote>
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Abstract:<br>
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There are new hardware processes and programming paradigms that
promise to dramatically improve process yields and performance. CXL
will unlock academic research computing disciplines that currently
have no solution path. These include deeply recursive codes and<br>
applications that require large memory blocks.<br>
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Unified Acceleration (UXL), was announced last month at the Linux
Foundation Open Source Summit with the goal of delivering a
multi-architecture and multi-vendor software ecosystem for all
accelerators based on open source standards. And Universal Chiplet
Interconnect Express (UCIe) is helping to build an open ecosystem of
chiplets for on-package<br>
innovations.<br>
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Bio:<br>
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Shankar Viswanathan is the lead performance architect for AMD's
Strategic Silicon products. He has worked on the design and
verification of several generations of AMD processors. Most
recently, he was on the design team for the SoCs that power game
consoles such as the PlayStation5 and the Steam Deck. His general
interests like at the intersection of performance and security in
hardware platforms.<br>
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Attachments:<br>
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<p><span
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Challenge Awards Competition at SC16: </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hpcchallenge.org/">https://hpcchallenge.org/</a><br>
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<p>CXL Forum @ HPC + AI on Wall Street:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.hpcaiwallstreet.com/cxl-forum/">https://www.hpcaiwallstreet.com/cxl-forum/</a></p>
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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a target="_blank"
href="https://www.studentclustercompetition.us/"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Student Cluster Competition
2023</a>: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.studentclustercompetition.us/">https://www.studentclustercompetition.us/</a><br>
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For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web
site: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.blu.org">http://www.blu.org</a><br>
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Jerry Feldman<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:gaf.linux@gmail.com"><gaf.linux@gmail.com></a>
Boston Linux and Unixhttp://www.blu.org
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