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Professor Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Queen's University of Belfast, UK

When:Nov 12,2015, 10:30AM

Where:E & CS Auditorium, First Floor

What:New Approaches to Energy-Efficient and Resilient HPC

Email:d.nikolopoulos@qub.ac.uk

Homepage:| http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/~D.Nikolopoulos/

ABSTRACT

This talk explores new and unconventional directions towards improving the energy-efficiency of HPC systems. Taking a workload-driven approach, we explore micro-servers with programmable accelerators; non-volatile main memory; workload auto-scaling and structured approximate computing. Our research in these has achieved significant gains in energy-efficiency while meeting application-specific QoS targets. The talk also reflects on a number of UK and European efforts to create a new energy-efficient and disaggregated ICT ecosystem for data analytics.

250pxProfessor Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

Bio: Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos is Professor in the School of EEECS, at Queen's University of Belfast and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Fellow. He holds the Chair in High Performance and Distributed Computing and directs the HPDC Research Cluster, a team of 20 academic and research staff. His research explores scalable computing systems for data-driven applications and new computing paradigms at the limits of performance, power and reliability. Dimitrios received the NSF CAREER Award, the DOE CAREER Award, and the IBM Faculty Award during an eight-year tenure in the United States. He has also been awarded the SFI-DEL Investigator Award, a Marie Curie Fellowship, a HiPEAC Fellowship, and seven Best Paper Awards including some from the leading IEEE and ACM conferences in HPC, such as SC, PPoPP, and IPDPS. His research has produced over 150 top-tier outputs and has received extensive (£10.6m as PI/£39.5m as CoI) and highly competitive research funding from the NSF, DOE, EPSRC, SFI, DEL, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society, European Commission and private sector. Dimitrios is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, Senior Member of the IEEE and Senior Member of the ACM. He earned a PhD (2000) in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras.