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Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering Seminar

The Live Simulation Environment

Friday April 3rd 4 pm – 5 pm EEB248

Dr. Jose Renau of U.C. Santa Cruz

Short bio:
Jose Renau (http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~renau) is an associate professor of computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements, low-power and thermal-aware designs, process variability, thread level speculation, and FPGA/ASIC design. Renau has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Short Abstract:
Professor Renau will talk about the still not published Live Simulation environment being developed University of California, Santa Cruz. The Live Simulation Environment is a collaborative environment with statistical sampling for very fast
computer architecture simulations. The talk will present the philosophy and a live demo of the setup. The setup can run SPEC benchmarks in few seconds with accurate sampling.

Unlike other statistical simulation simulators, the user does not specify sampling parameters. The user just sets the acceptable simulation error, a set of benchmarks, and the architecture configuration. The Live environment is able to automatically adjust the sampling parameters guaranteeing that the error is within the requested confidence interval.
By adapting the sample parameters per application, benchmark, and core automatically it is possible to accurately run SPEC 2006 in a few seconds.

This is a link of a video showing the "goal"
http://masc.soe.ucsc.edu/livedemo/livedemo.mp4

Host: Dr. Timothy Pinkston

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Shane Goodoff