【海韵讲座】2023年第52期-Developing, Synthesizing, and Automation Domain-specific Accelerators
报告题目：Developing, Synthesizing, and Automation Domain-specific Accelerators
主讲人： 翁健 阿卜杜拉国王科技大学 助理教授
报告时间：2023年11月8日（星期三）10:00-11:00
报告地点：翔安校区西部片区2号楼109
报告摘要：
In reaction to the waning benefit of transistor scaling and the increasing demands on computing power, specialized accelerators have drawn significant attention from both academics and industry because of their orders-of-magnitude performance improvement and energy efficiency. All these accelerators require non-trivial human efforts, from designing the architecture to having a full-stack implementation. Therefore, the software/hardware co-designed innovations are often monopolized by several large teams in large companies. In this talk, I will first discuss how my research democratizes the accelerator designs and unifies the hardware/software innovations by automating the accelerator design process under a unified programming paradigm. By taking advantage of the compiler’s awareness of the program behaviors that profit from hardware specialization, accelerators can be automatically synthesized by searching through a well-defined design space. These automatically designed accelerators achieve comparable cost/performance efficiency compared with prior handcrafted designs. In the rest of the talk, I will also cover how this work inspires me to develop techniques to accelerate emerging application domains by orders-of-magnitude speedup, including digital signal processing and DNN inference,and how I take advantage of this work to revolutionize the FPGA programming paradigm.
报告人简介：
Jian Weng earned his PhD degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2023. His research interests span designing and analyzing specialized hardware accelerators, as well as their associated software/hardware interfaces and compilation techniques. His works have been accepted by HPCA (CCF-A), ISCA (CCF-A), MICRO (CCF-A), and CGO (CCF-B), and were awarded as IEEE Micro Top Picks, and Best Paper Runner-up.
邀请人：计算机科学与技术系 刘向荣教授