1. Embedded Computing Lab Chia-Lin Yang Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University

2. Embedded Computing Lab 8 Ph.D students, 9 master students Research Directions Architecture Design Low-power architecture Memory hierarchy design Multicore/GPU architecture design System-Level Synthesis ESL for platform-based SOC (DATE’09) Task scheduling/placement for FPGAs (ASP-DAC’04, ICCAD’04, TODAS’09x2) Task scheduling/routing for microfluidic biochips (ICCAD’07, DAC’08, TCAD’09)

3. The Bridge Connecting Hardware and Software

4. Mission Innovative system architectural design to meet the performance/power demands for future mobile cloud computing

5. ECO System of Virtualized Mobile Cloud Computing Cloud virtualization Computation Storage GPUs Server virtualization Game console Smart Phone E-bookReader Tablet PC

6. Storage Architecture for Data-Centric Computing • The amount of data being created is growing significantly faster than Moore’s law, e.g., from 5 exabytes (10^18), in 2002 to 280 exabytes in 2009 • From Micro-processors to Nanostores: rethinking data-centric systems Fusion Memory Architecture

7. GPU Virtualization • Our goal is to design hw/sw approaches for efficient GPU virtualization Cycle-accurate GPU simulator

8. Performance/Power Optimization of Mobile Devices • Performance characterization of graphics performance on integrated CPU/GPU platform, e.g., AMD fusion, intel Sandy bridge, Nvidia Tegra2 • Hierarchical Power Management for Virtualized Devices • Architectural Support for Live Migration • HW-assisted dirty memory pages bookkeeping • Sub-paging • HW memory compressor

9. 專題生題目 • Analyze the interactions between Hadoop and SSD • storage though prototyping/simulation • Performance Characterization of Android RenderScript on • integrated CPU/GPU platform • Cloud-based gaming Intel Sandy Bridge AMD Fusion

10. Why Join Embedded Computing Lab? • What’s missing in Taiwan’s Industry? Application, e.g., smart phone app. Platform/System Architecture Design System Software SW/HW Co-Design System-on-Chip China HPC. 天河一號 No #1 Super Computer -> Intel Xeon, Nvidia Tesla -> Next-generation -> GodSon CPUs ASIC, e.g., mpeg decoder DRAM chips Flash memory chips

11. Why Join Embedded Computing Lab? • Strong industrial alliance 工研院 IBM, Austin Research Lab 鈺創 資策會 晨星 旺宏 Intel, Architecture Researach Lab

12. 成為一個炙手可熱的人才! Why Join Embedded Computing Lab? System Software 最前瞻的研究 ! IEEE Micro’10, first paper from Taiwan in 10 years ISLPED’09Best Paper Award ICCAD’09 Best Paper Nomination VLSI-CAD’09 Best Paper Nomination 與世界接軌! Internship at International Research Lab e.g., IBM Austin Research Lab, Intel research lab

13. Join Us !!!! Please stop by at my office CSIE 411, yangc@csie.ntu.edu.tw