Fourth Workshop on

Computer Architecture Research Directions

CARD 2015

Held in conjunction with the 42^nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/calcm/isca2015/

Sunday, June 14 2015, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.

Description

CARD 2015 presents three mini-panels consisting of three experts in the field, two as panelists and the third as a moderator/panelist. The purpose of this workshop is to serve as a forum in which experts in each field can debate the state of the field and future directions. The format is designed to quickly focus on areas of disagreement, rather than expounding on areas of agreement which, presumably, have ceased to be controversial, at least between the two panelists.

The hope is that the workshop will be useful to a diverse audience from a graduate student looking for good thesis topic areas to a senior researcher who wants to hear the opinions of other area experts.

Each 60 minute panel will consist of an opening statement from each panelist (10 minutes each, 20 minutes total), discussion between the moderator and panelists (5 to 10 minutes), and questions from the audience (30 to 35 minutes).

More specifically, this workshop consists of following three 60 minute mini-panels:

TIME	Mini-Panel	Moderator	Panelists
1:30pm-2:30pm	Open-source versus Proprietary ISAs (Watch Panel Video)	Mark Hill University of Wisconsin — Madison	Dave Patterson University of California — Berkeley	Dave Christie AMD
2:30pm-2:40pm	BREAK
2:40pm-3:40pm	FPGAs versus GPUs for Datacenters (Watch Panel Video)	Babak Falsafi EPFL	Desh Singh Altera	Bill Dally Stanford / NVIDIA
3:40pm-4:00pm	BREAK
4:00pm-5:00pm	Impact of Future Technologies (a.k.a Effect of the End of Moore's Law) (Watch Panel Video)	Trevor Mudge University of Michigan — Ann Arbor	Fred Chong University of Chicago	Igor Markov University of Michigan — Ann Arbor

Visit CARD 2007, CARD 2009 and CARD 2011 sites. Previous CARD panel video/audio files have been downloaded more than 30,000 times. Read the mini-panel articles, which were published in special issues of IEEE MICRO magazine in December 2007 and June 2010.

Organizers
Derek Chiou	Resit Sendag	Joshua J. Yi
University of Texas — Austin	University of Rhode Island	Dechert

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