End to End Cognitive workflows span varying degrees of granularity of parallelism. Accelerating such workflows using a single accelerator type usually provides speedup only for a limited set of stages. IBM's next-generation POWER9 systems will support a large collection of accelerator types switched through a high bandwidth on-chip crossbar switch. This will allow a large class of workloads and multi-granular workflows to be accelerated using a single platform. This workshop will explore acceleration opportunities in existing and upcoming workflows. We will also explore the creation of a community & ecosystem around POWER9 acceleration technology for academics and industry practitioners. This workshop is co-located with the 50th International Symposium for Microarchitecture (MICRO - 2017)


Date:

14th October, 2017

Time:

8:30 AM to 5:30 PM

Venue:

Cambridge, MA (co-located with MICRO 2017)

Keynote talks

1. University Keynote:

"C3SR Cloud Tools and Libraries for Exploiting Heterogeneous Cognitive Computing Systems"

Prof. Wen Mei-Hwu (University of Illinois and Urbana Champaign)

2. Industry Keynote:

"Systems Design: IBM Power9 and Beyond"

Steve Fields (IBM Fellow)


Organizers:

Rajaram Krishnamurthy, IBM Systems
Peter Hofstee, IBM Research
Ganesan Narayanasamy, IBM Systems