Computer Architecture Podcast

Sep 03 2024 17 ep. 60 mins 99
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A show that brings you closer to the cutting edge in computer architecture and the remarkable people behind it. Hosted by Dr. Suvinay Subramanian, who is a computer architect at Google in the Systems Infrastructure group, working on designing Google’s machine learning accelerators (TPU), and Dr. Lisa Hsu who is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft in the Azure Compute group, working on strategic initiatives for datacenter deployment.

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Ep 17: Architecture 2.0 and AI for Computer Systems Design with Dr. Vijay Janapa Reddi, Harvard University

Sep 03 2024 59 mins  
Dr. Vijay Janapa Reddi is an Associate Professor at Harvard University, and Vice President and Co-founder of MLCommons. He has made substantial contributions to mobile and edge computing systems, and played a key role in developing the MLPerf Benchmarks. Vijay has authored the machine learning systems book mlsysbook.ai, as part of his twin passions of education and outreach. He rec

Ep 16: Sustainability in a Post-AI World with Dr. Carole-Jean Wu, Meta

Jun 19 2024 66 mins  
Dr. Carole-Jean Wu is a Director of AI Research at Meta. She is a founding member and a Vice President of MLCommons – a non-profit organization that aims to accelerate machine learning innovations for the benefits of all. Dr. Wu also serves on the MLCommons Board as a Director, chaired the MLPerf Recommendation Benchmark Advisory Board, and co-chaired for MLPerf Inference. Prior

Ep 15: The Hardware Startup Experience from Business Case to Software with Dr. Karu Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin-Madison/Nvidia

Mar 28 2024 63 mins  
Dr. Karu Sankaralingam is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an entrepeneur, inventor, as well as a Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA. His work has been featured in industry forums of Mentor and Synopsys, and has been covered by the New York Times, Wired, and IEEE Spectrum. He founded the hardware startup SimpleMachines in 2017 which developed chip designs app

Ep 14: System Design for Exascale Computing and Advanced Memory Technologies with Dr. Gabriel Loh, AMD

Dec 06 2023 65 mins  
Dr. Gabriel Loh is a Senior Fellow at AMD Research and Advanced Development. Gabe is known for his contributions to 3D die-stacked architectures, memory organization and caching techniques, and chiplet multicore architectures. His ideas have influenced multiple commercial products and industry standards. He is a recipient of ACM SIGARCH's Maurice Wilkes Award, is a Hall of Fame mem

Ep 13: Energy-efficient Algorithm-hardware Co-design with Dr. Vivienne Sze, MIT

Sep 27 2023 58 mins  
Dr. Vivienne Sze is an associate professor in the EECS department at MIT. Vivienne is recognized for her leading work on energy-efficient computing systems spanning a wide range of domains: from video compression, to machine learning, robotics and digital health. She received the DARPA Young Faculty Award, Edgerton Faculty Award, faculty grants from Google, Facebook and Qualcomm, a

Ep 12: 50th Anniversary of SIGARCH Special Episode with Dr. David Patterson, Dr. Norm Jouppi and Dr. Natalie Enright-Jerger

Jun 10 2023 62 mins  
This is a special episode to commemorate the 50th anniversary of SIGARCH. We have three leaders from our community who have served as SIGARCH chairs -- Dr. David Patterson, Dr. Norm Jouppi and Dr. Natalie Entright-Jerger -- reflect on the evolution of the computer architecture field as well as our community over half a century, and share their perspectives on opportunities and exci

Ep 11: Future of AI Computing and How to Build & Nurture Hardware Teams with Jim Keller, Tenstorrent

Feb 13 2023 82 mins  
Jim Keller is the CTO of Tenstorrent, and a veteran computer architect. Prior to Tenstorrent, he has held roles of Senior Vice President at Intel, Vice President of Autopilot at Tesla, Vice President and Chief Architect at AMD, and at PA Semi which was acquired by Apple. Jim has led multiple successful silicon designs over the decades, from the DEC Alpha processors, to AMD K7/K8/K1

Ep 10: Physically-constrained Computing Systems with Dr. Brandon Lucia, Carnegie Mellon University

Nov 18 2022 66 mins  
Dr. Brandon Lucia is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Lucia has made significant contributions to enabling capable and reliable intermittent computing systems, developing techniques that span the hardware-software stack from novel microarchitectures, to programming models and tools. He is a recipient of the IE

Ep 9: Hyperscale Cloud and Agile Hardware Design in China with Dr. Yungang Bao, Institute of Computing Technology

Aug 06 2022 52 mins  
Dr. Yungang Bao is a professor at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the deputy director of ICT-CAS. Prof. Bao founded the China RISC-V Alliance (CRVA) and serves as the secretary-general of CRVA. His research interests include open-source hardware and agile chip design, datacenter architecture and memory systems. Prof. Bao’s contri

Ep 8: Durable Security and Privacy-enhanced Computing with Dr. Todd Austin, University of Michigan

May 07 2022 60 mins  
Dr. Todd Austin is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research interests include robust and secure system design, hardware and software verification, and performance analysis tools and techniques. Todd has donned multiple hats, being a senior processor architect at Intel’s Microprocessor Research Labs, a prof