Seminar Series on Bus Protocols and Switch Fabric Interconnects

04.11.2002

Foredragsholdere
Bruce D. Shriver

This seminar series consists of three 2-hour seminars on bus protocols and switch fabric interconnects from high-performance microprocessors and systems-on-a-chip. The evolution of bus protocols from simple tenured bus protocols using connected transactions to split-transaction protocols using optionally deferred reply transactions and supporting multiple outstanding transactions will be explored. The complications that coherence transactions introduce in shared memory systems and multi-level systems will be discussed, as well as some of the approaches to deal with them. Switch-fabric-based architectures will also be discussed and contrasted with bus-based solutions. Infiniband, RapidIO, PLX and on-chip switch schemes such as SuperHyway will be presented. These seminars are intended to give those attending an understanding of issues confronting computer architects and computer systems architects in achieving high-bandwidth, low latency communications within processors and systems. Some comments will also be made concerning standards, consortia, and patents related to buses and switched fabrics.

Lecturer:
Bruce D. Shriver bruce@cs.uit.no

Seminar meetings:
Monday 4th of November 08:15 - 10:00, Lille Aud., Realfagsbygget
Wednessday 6th of November 08:15 - 10:00, Lille Aud., Realfagsbygget
Friday 8th of November 08:15 - 10:00, Store Aud., Realfagsbygget

Biography:
Shriver received his PhD in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has published extensively and has lectured throughout the US and abroad in the design and implementation of computer hardware and software systems. In 1990, Shriver was made an IEEE Fellow for his work in Computer Systems Organization and Microprogramming. He has been the editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer and IEEE Software, and an editorial board member of a number of other periodicals. He has been General Chair and/or Program Chair of over forty technical conferences. Shriver was a Research Staff Member at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in the 1980s. He has served as Vice-President for Research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he also held an Eminent Scholar Chair in Computer Science. He has also held an endowed chair at the University of Hawaii and was an adjunct professor at a number of Universities, including, the University of Aarhus in Denmark. He currently is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tromsø in Norway and a Visiting and Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He was president of the IEEE Computer Society in 1992.