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The Blue Gene/Cyclops Project: from Supercomputers to Network Processors

Christos J. Georgiou
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10583
Friday, April 4, 2003, 11:00am - 12:00pm
LC 102, Brooklyn Campus, Polytechnic University

This talk will present the Blue Gene/Cyclops architecture and project activities at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Cyclops is a cellular processor and system architecture that involves the on-chip integration of many simple, general purpose RISC processor cores, shared I-caches, multiple banks of embedded memory, and network interfaces connected through a high-performance on-chip crossbar switch. Originally targeted for building supercomputers for scientific/engineering applications, the Cyclops architecture has many attributes that make it also ideally suitable for high-performance network processors. The talk will address both aspects of the Cyclops project.

Biography
Dr. Christos Georgiou received a Ph.D. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, at Santa Barbara, in 1981. Since 1982, he has been with IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he has held various management positions conducting research in the areas of high-speed system interconnections, and RISC microprocessor architectures and their performance measurement and analysis. Currently, he is the manager of the Multithreaded Architecture group. Dr. Georgiou has received 3 IBM Outstanding Innovation awards and holds more than 30 U.S. Patents. He is an IBM Research Division Master Inventor. In 1992, he was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow.