Category Archives: Lectures

Interview with Damla Senol Cali: about her work, experience in SAFARI, and her future directions

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Damla Senol Cali is a PhD student with SAFARI at CMU co-advised by Onur Mutlu and Saugata Ghose.
We recently interviewed Damla about her work, her experience as a PhD student in SAFARI, and her future directions.  Damla’s interview appears as the first video contribution to the SAFARI Meet our Members section in our January 2021 newsletter.

Watch Damla’s video interview here    |    Read the transcript here 

Damla Senol Cali, Gurpreet S. Kalsi, Zulal Bingol, Can Firtina, Lavanya Subramanian, Jeremie S. Kim, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Mohammed Alser, Juan Gomez-Luna, Amirali Boroumand, Anant Nori, Allison Scibisz, Sreenivas Subramoney, Can Alkan, Saugata Ghose, and Onur Mutlu, GenASM: A High-Performance, Low-Power Approximate String Matching Acceleration Framework for Genome Sequence Analysis, Proceedings of the 53rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Virtual, October 2020.

Full paper link | Talk Video (18 mins) | Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf) |
Lecture Video (37 mins) | Lecture Slides (pptx) (pdf) | GenASM Source Code |
More information here

Damla Senol Cali, Jeremie Kim, Saugata Ghose, Can Alkan, and Onur Mutlu, Nanopore Sequencing Technology and Tools for Genome Assembly: Computational Analysis of the Current State, Bottlenecks and Future Directions, Briefings in Bioinformatics (BIB), 2018.

Paper link | Paper PDF | AACBB’19 Talk Video | Slides (ppt) (pdf) |
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Read the latest edition of our SAFARI Newsletter

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Dear SAFARI friends,

Happy New Year!  We are excited to share our group highlights with you in this second edition of the SAFARI newsletter: https://safari.ethz.ch/safari-newsletter-january-2021/

In this second edition of the SAFARI newsletter, we share our research, teaching and outreach highlights from 2020, and look ahead to a new and inspiring future in 2021.

We wish you a wonderful 2021, in all aspects of your lives!

Onur Mutlu

Talk: Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Machines Oct 7

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Join Onur for his online talk in the HKUST Engineering x HKSTP Distinguished Speaker Series on Oct 7 at 11:00 CEST (Zurich time).

You can register here: https://calendar.ust.hk/events/hkust-engineering-x-hkstp-distinguished-speaker-series-webinar-intelligent-architectures

Computing is bottlenecked by data. Large amounts of application data overwhelm storage capability, communication capability, and computation capability of the modern machines we design today. As a result, many key applications’ performance, efficiency and scalability are bottlenecked by data movement.

Jointly hosted by SENG, HKUST AI Chip Center for Emerging Smart Systems and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, this webinar features a renowned computer architecture expert, Prof. Onur Mutlu from ETH Zurich. We will discuss the major shortcomings of modern architectures, the recent research that could enable computation close to data, as well as the guiding principles for future computing architecture and system designs. (Please click here for more information.)

Moderated by Prof. Tim Cheng, Dean of Engineering, register to get more insights on how intelligent architecture could be designed to handle data well.

Keynote talk: How can we make computing architectures intelligent? VLSI-TSA/VLSI-DAT 2020

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Onur Mutlu gave a keynote talk and paper on “Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Machines” at VLSI-TSA and VLSI-DAT 2020:

Onur Mutlu,
“Intelligent Architectures for Intelligent Machines”
Plenary Keynote Talk at the 2020 International Symposia on VLSI (VLSI), Virtual, 11 August 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Talk Video (55 minutes)]
[Keynote Paper]

Keynote talk: Designing more principled system architectures: DAC2020

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How can we design more principled system architectures to solve the data handling problem? Onur Mutlu talked this week during the Design Automation Conference Tutorial on “Toward New Era of Compute-in-Memory: From Memory Devices to Applications“:

Onur Mutlu,
“Computation in Memory: An Architectural Perspective”
57th Design Automation Conference Tutorial on New Era of Compute-In-Memory (DAC), Virtual, 20 July 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]

 

Talk: How to Build an Impactful Research Group: DAC Early Career Workshop

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Do you want to learn “How to Build an Impactful Research Group”? Onur Mutlu joined Tulika Mitra, Jürgen Teich, and Helen Li for the panel discussion at the Design Automation Conference Early Career Workshop and shared his insights:

Onur Mutlu,
“How to Build an Impactful Research Group”
57th Design Automation Conference Early Career Workshop (DAC), Virtual, 19 July 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]

Papers: We are at ISCA 2020 this week (virtually)!

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We are attending ISCA 2020 this week, 29 May – 3 June, online: https://iscaconf.org/isca2020/.

Congratulations to Nastaran Hajinazar on winning the photo contest!

We are excited to be presenting several papers this year — join us for our talks, or watch the recordings any time:

Jeremie S. Kim, Minesh Patel, A. Giray Yaglikci, Hasan Hassan, Roknoddin Azizi, Lois Orosa, and Onur Mutlu,
“Revisiting RowHammer: An Experimental Analysis of Modern Devices and Mitigation Techniques”
Proceedings of the 47th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Valencia, Spain, June 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Talk Video (20 minutes)]

Haocong Luo, Taha Shahroodi, Hasan Hassan, Minesh Patel, A. Giray Yaglikci, Lois Orosa, Jisung Park, and Onur Mutlu,
“CLR-DRAM: A Low-Cost DRAM Architecture Enabling Dynamic Capacity-Latency Trade-Off”
Proceedings of the 47th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Valencia, Spain, June 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Talk Video (20 minutes)]

Nastaran Hajinazar, Pratyush Patel, Minesh Patel, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Saugata Ghose, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Geraldo Francisco de Oliveira Jr., Jonathan Appavoo, Vivek Seshadri, and Onur Mutlu,
“The Virtual Block Interface: A Flexible Alternative to the Conventional Virtual Memory Framework”
Proceedings of the 47th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Valencia, Spain, June 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]
[Talk Video (26 minutes)]

Jawad Haj-Yahya, Mohammed Alser, Jeremie Kim, A. Giray Yaglikci, Nandita Vijaykumar, Efraim Rotem, and Onur Mutlu,
“SysScale: Exploiting Multi-domain Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling for Energy Efficient Mobile Processors”
Proceedings of the 47th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Valencia, Spain, June 2020.
[Slides (pptx) (pdf)]