The Challenge of the Multicores 报告人：Fran Allen，IBM Fellow Emerita，IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
时 间：2010年10月18日上午10:00
地 点：科技馆二楼报告厅 Abstract：
Computers have traditionally used complex “cores” to manage and execute computations and, over the years, these computers have achieved ever increasing levels of performance. However fundamental limitations of size, heat and energy have emerged. To overcome these limitations simpler, cooler “multicores” that work in parallel are being used. But how will users and applications take advantage of the potential parallelism to deliver performance? This talk will review some of the history of languages and compilers for high performance systems and consider opportunities for performance on multicore systems. The talk is intended to encourage the exploration of new approaches.  Bio：Fran Allen is an IBM Fellow Emerita at the T. J. Watson Research Laboratory with a specialty in compilers and program optimization for high performance computers. This work led to Fran being named the recipient of ACM’s 2006 Turing Award “For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution.” She has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Philosophical Society and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, ACM, IEEE, and the Computer History Museum. Fran is an active mentor and is especially interested in encouraging women Computer Scientists. Fran first visited China in 1973 when she and husband Jack Schwartz were invited to lecture on computing. Since then she has made numerous visits, including a 1983 trip as part of a Chinese-American mountaineering expedition in western China. I look forward to my first visit to Nanjing!!
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