Computer Architecture Podcast
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A show that brings you closer to the cutting edge in computer architecture and the remarkable people behind it. Hosted by Dr. Suvinay Subramanian, who is a computer architect at Google in the Systems Infrastructure group, working on designing Google’s machine learning accelerators (TPU), and Dr. Lisa Hsu who is semi-retired and works part-time in Reality Labs Research at Meta on optics and display technologies for AR.
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Oct 21, 2020 • 54min
Ep 2: Domain-specific Accelerators with Dr. Bill Dally, Nvidia
Dr. Bill Dally is the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at Nvidia, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Dr. Dally has had a storied career with contributions to parallel computer architectures, interconnection networks, GPUs, accelerators and more. He has a history of designing innovative and experimental computing systems such as the MARS accelerator, the MOSSIM simulation engine, the J-Machine and M-machine, to name a few. He talks to us about computing innovation in the post-Moore era, domain-specific accelerators, and technology transfer in computing.
May 28, 2020 • 1h 2min
Ep 1: Systems for ML with Dr. Kim Hazelwood, Facebook
Dr. Kim Hazelwood is the west coast head of engineering at Facebook AI Research (FAIR). Prior to Facebook, Kim has donned several hats from being a tenured professor at the University of Virginia, directory of systems research at Yahoo Labs, and a software engineer at Google. Today, she joins us to discuss systems for Machine Learning (ML), and share her insights on having an agile career.
