What's in the Next Generation Box:The Shift to Multicore Processors
Tuesday 4th September 2007
6.00pm - 8.00pm
(Doors open 5.30pm for a light buffet and refreshments)
Technium CAST
Parc Menai, Bangor
Guest speaker : Ade Fewings from Technium CAST Ltd
Modern computer processors and systems are going through a period of fundamental change. The amount a computer can process simultaneously reflects directly in an enhanced user experience.
However, where once speed was gained through ever-increasing raw clock speed, (over 3200 times faster in the last 20 years from 1MHz to 3.2GHz), now parallelism is the key to maximising
performance. Multi-core processors are soon to become the standard in all PCs. They have already found a home in games systems, high-end workstations and servers - with architectures from a
number of vendors including Intel, AMD, Sun, IBM and STI.
This presentation will consider what has necessitated this fundamental change, in what ways the architectures differ and the challenges this might present to software development in the future.
About the speaker
Ade Fewings followed up his first degree at the University of Wales, Bangor, with a PhD in the High Performance Visualisation and Medical Graphics group at the university, completed in February
2006. His PhD work was in the area of visualisation within distributed systems, particularly involving Grid and parallel graphics technologies, and has been presented at the Eurographics and
SuperComputing conferences. At Technium CAST, Ade is responsible for maintaining, supporting and developing the hardware behind the advanced facilities available, including the PowerWall,
computer cluster and storage area network. He has additionally worked on development of visualisation applications in a number of areas and continues to try to push the boundaries of what the
technology is doing, at present particularly in the area of remote visualisation.
This event forms part of the ITWales Software Developers programme, which is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government.
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