Dr. Solihin performed an analysis of data center architecture landscape for Intellectual Ventures during his recent sabbatical. The goal of the analysis was to identify areas of technology that may increase in importance in the future. In the talk, he will discuss: 

1. Why energy efficiency is the most pressing problem in data center chip architecture

    Power wall/Dark Silicon phenomenon
    Why we have power wall
    New rule of technology scaling
    Avenues to achieve scaling: abundance of die area but scarcity of power

2. Bandwidth distance wall

    How it relates to Power Wall
    Data movement is expensive
    Avenues to achieve scaling

3. System-level changes

    What inefficiencies are there with current mechanisms such as copy on write, page size, process forking

4. Solid State Drive/SSD (if time permits)

    Challenges in using SSD in data centers