Dr. Tilak Agerwala

Vice President, Systems, IBM Research Division

Talk Title: Future Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

Date: Nov 13

Time：4:30 PM

Venue: Room 1-312，FIT building

Abstract:

Today, massive amounts of data are being produced in areas from financial analysis to physics to biology to meteorology. Accelerating discovery in these areas will require innovative system designs and advances in computational sciences. Building such systems is the challenge of deep computing, as deep computing systems must be cost effective, power efficient, and general enough to support multiple workloads. IBM has long been a leader in developing technology to support these goals. However, in the end, it's not about the technology. It's what you do with it that counts. Thus, today we are employing our expertise to the design of deep computing systems. This talk will explore some of our technology and some of the deep computation to which it is being applied.

Tilak Agerwala’s Bio：

Dr. Tilak Agerwala is Vice President, Systems at IBM Research. He is responsible for developing the next-generation technologies for IBM’s systems, from microprocessors to commercial systems and supercomputers, as well as novel supercomputing algorithms and applications. Tilak joined IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Center and has held executive positions at IBM in research, advanced development, development, marketing, and business development. His research interests are in the area of high performance computer architectures and systems. Tilak received the W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE in 1998 for “outstanding contributions to the development of high performance computers”. He is a founding member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.