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From : Richard Carter <rwcarter@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:23:56 -0400

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� � � � Department of Computer Science Colloquium Series 2008-2009
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� � � � � � � � �The Parallel Revolution Has Started:
� � � � �Are You Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?
� � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � by
� � � � � �David Patterson, Computer Science, UC Berkeley
� � �Director, U.C. Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory (Par Lab)
�Director, U.C. Berkeley Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems Lab.
(RAD Lab)
� � � � � � � � � �http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/

� � Date: �Monday, April 06, 2009
� � Time: �04:00 PM (talk begins -- a telecast from UNC as part of the
� � � � � � � � � � �Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer
Series
� � � � � � � � � � �http://www.cs.unc.edu/Events/DistLectures/index.html)
� � Place: �3211 EB2, NCSU Centennial Campus


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ABSTRACT:
This talk will explain

� * Why the La-Z-Boy era of programming is over

� * The implications to the IT industry if the parallel revolution
should fail

� * The opportunities and pitfalls of this revolution

� * What Berkeley is doing to try to be near the forefront of this
revolution
� � power to the (manycore) processors!

SHORT BIO:
David Patterson was the first in his family to graduate from college
and he enjoyed it so much that he didn�t stop until he received a PhD
from UCLA in 1976. He then headed north to U.C. Berkeley. He spent
1979 at DEC working on the VAX minicomputer, which inspired him and
his colleagues to later develop a Reduced Instruction Set Computer
(RISC) and then Sun Microsystems to recruit him in 1984 to start the
SPARC architecture. In 1987, Patterson and colleagues tried building
dependable storage systems from the new PC disks. This led to
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID). He spent 1989 working on
the CM-5 supercomputer. Patterson and colleagues later tried building
a supercomputer using standard desktop computers and switches. The
resulting Network of Workstations (NOW) project led to cluster
technology used by many Internet services. In the past, he served as
Chair of Berkeley�s CS Division, Chair of the Computer Research
Association, and President of the Association for Computing Machinery.

All this resulted in 200 papers, 5 books, and about 30 of honors, some
shared with friends, including election to the National Academy of
Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Silicon Valley
Engineering Hall of Fame. He was named Fellow of the Computer History
Museum and both AAAS organizations. From the ACM, where as a fellow,
he received the SIGARCH Eckert-Mauchly Award, the SIGMOD Test of Time
Award, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Karlstrom Outstanding
Educator Award. He is also a fellow at the IEEE, where he received the
Johnson Information Storage Award, the Undergraduate Teaching Award,
the Mulligan Education Medal. Finally, he shared the IEEE the von
Neumann Medal and the NEC C&C Prize with his textbook co-author, John
Hennessy.