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Low Power Computing

Submitted by sputtagu on Tue, 2010-10-19 16:12
Program Summary
Program Length: 
2-days
Program Fee: 

$895

Location: 
Arizona State University - Tempe Arizona
Overview: 

From recharging iPhone everyday, to gaming desktops creating too much noise, inability to keep laptops on your lap, and data centers consuming power equivalent to a medium sized coal power plant, power consumption is now at the central stage in the design of computer systems. In battery operated mobile handheld devices, batteries are the primary determinant of the shape, size, weight, charging frequency and ultimately the usability of the device. In high performance computing solutions, high power consumption is severely limiting the performance of processors due to temperature and their affordability due to costly cooling solutions. Data centers that house the compute farms of Google, HP, Merrill Lynch consume electricity equivalent to some medium sized cities, cause CO2 emissions that significantly contribute towards global warming. While the need for computing grows in every sphere of our lives, including bio-sensors inside our body, to wearable computers, ubiquitous computing (computers in cars, refrigerators), genome decoding, weather forecasting, nuclear bomb simulations, the only way out is to develop solutions for power-efficient computing. Power-efficient computing starts right from the design and fabrication of transistors, to the heating/cooling solution of the building in which the computing solution is housed. While we will cover fundamental techniques for power reduction at the transistor and hardware design, the focus of this course will be at software and higher level techniques.

Program Sections:

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Course Topics

The course takes a holistic approach in understanding the different levels of computer system design, right from the transistor to the highly abstracted software layers, and explores techniques to achieve low-power computing at all levels. Concentrating more on the software layers of the design, this course attempts to break the myth that low-power is headache of only hardware designers.

Topics discussed in this course include:

  • Motivation for Low-Power Computer Design

  • Short Tutorial on Computer Design

     

  • Transistor-level Power Modeling and Optimization

  • Circuit-level Power Modeling and Optimization

  • Micro-architecture-level Power Modeling and Optimization

  • Instruction-level Power Modeling and Optimization

  • Processor-level Power Modeling and Optimization

  • Multi-threading for Low Power

  • Multi-Processors for Low Power

  • Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Architectures for Low Power

  • Data Centers

Instructors

Dr. Aviral Shrivastava joined ASU in 2006, soon after receiving his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine. Dr. Shrivastava is a well recognized expert in microarchitectures and compilers of embedded processors, with a focus on low-power computing. Dr. Shrivastava heads the Compiler-Microarchitecture Lab at ASU, with a mission to investigate novel compiler, microarchitectural and cooperative compiler-microarchitecture solutions to the challenges faced by embedded system designers and programmers.

Dr. Shrivastava has developed several novel schemes to reduce power consumption of embedded and high performance processors at both the hardware and software levels. His current research has 3 focuses, power-efficient multi-core computing, reliable software on unreliable hardware, and investigating Coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures. His research is funded by NSF, SFAz, Intel, Microsoft Research, and Raytheon Missile Systems.

Who Should Attend

Students, researchers and computer professionals who are involved in hardware, software or system design of embedded to high performance computer systems will benefit from this course. Audience will benefit from increased awareness of power consumption of the hardware, software or system level design decisions.

About the ASU School of Computing and Informatics

The School of Computing and Informatics (SCI) at Arizona State University (ASU) is home to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI). The school supports the evolution of computing and informatics as discrete disciplines and responds to the need for partnership and collaboration between computer and information sciences and a broad range of disciplinary areas at ASU. Learn more about SCI.

Registration, Refunds and Cancellations

The registration fees for Engineering Global Outreach & Extended Education courses held at Arizona State University include instruction, handouts, refreshment breaks and meals as noted in the schedules found in the course schedule (agenda). Hotel accommodations are not included.

Fees may be paid by check, money order or purchase order. Please make all remittances payable, in U.S. funds, to Arizona State University. Payments by VISA, MasterCard and American Express also are accepted. Seating at the course is limited. Fax or e-mail the enrollment form as soon as possible to assure your space, even though payment may come later. Do not rely on your buyer or business office to send the form. Putting the enrollment form in the U.S. mail is only necessary if you will be enclosing a check or purchase order form. A confirmation letter will be faxed or mailed to you shortly after receipt of your enrollment.

Should you register and then need to cancel, please note that there is a cancellation fee. The rate of the fee is determined by how far in advance of the program/module start date the written request for cancellation is received by Global Outreach & Extended Education (please see below). Written requests for cancellation may be received via either mail or fax.

  • Four or more weeks prior - 10% of program fee

  • Three weeks prior - 50% of program fee

  • Within two weeks - 75% of program fee

Transfer to another program or module is subject to a $250 administrative fee if made within six weeks of the program/module start date. Registrants who do not attend and do not cancel are subject to the complete fee. Participant substitutes may be made by submitting in advance a written request. We reserve the right to change instructors or cancel or reschedule a program in the event of insufficient enrollment or unforeseen circumstances.

For more information contact: 

Layla Reitmeier
Coordinator-Professional and Executive Programs
layla@asu.edu
480-965-8515