[Quantum-ms] Mark your calendar 11/14: Ender’s Game: Architectural Techniques to Develop Scalable and Secure Memory Systems

[Columbia EE Events]

Hi all, this one is happening at 1pm. See you soon.

On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 16:58 Columbia EE Events <ee-events at ee.columbia.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This Thursday (November 14, 2024), Prashant Nair (
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__prashantnair.bitbucket.io&d=DwIFaQ&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=SD-9ztpHDQVkXLFc0zdc9RZWqGhdQ2vAJZ0O73eMlt0&m=XyQOwwB1AOGpyMIB1-oOgHWQMJ-nTno2aHWOWSU144rgeM7ezax7jnj3IvZEevKn&s=c-D5R1vShqpvp2suhlRY-_B8RhSeKbhn0LOcTF-yK8M&e= ) from the University of British
> Columbia (UBC) will be visiting and giving a talk at 1pm at EE
> conference room.
>
> Professor Tanvir Ahmed Khan is hosting this seminar (reach out to him if
> you have any questions.)
>
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> Title: Ender’s Game: Architectural Techniques to Develop Scalable and
> Secure Memory Systems
>
> Abstract: The emergence of new applications, especially in machine
> learning, has increased the demand for scalable memory systems. DRAM cells,
> the foundation of modern memory systems, face challenges to meet the
> capacity needs of next-generation applications. This scalability issue has
> led designers to rethink memory architectures by examining data semantics
> and communication costs. Additionally, this shift has prompted memory
> security to become a first-order design criteria.
>
> In this talk, I will discuss two recent initiatives from my research group
> to address these challenges. The first part of the presentation will
> introduce Hotline (ISCA 2024), an acceleration framework that reduces
> memory and communication overheads in the training of Deep Learning
> Recommendation Models by leveraging data access patterns. While Hotline
> effectively mitigates performance overheads, it does not tackle security
> vulnerabilities -- a growing concern as the memory footprint of
> applications increase. The second part of my talk will focus on memory
> security challenges, such as RowHammer, in high-capacity systems. I will
> present our work on Scalable and Secure Row Swap (Best Paper at HPCA 2023)
> that introduces the Juggernaut attack and proposes cost-effective defense
> mechanisms. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the broader
> research efforts in my group aimed at improving memory scalability for
> next-generation applications.
>
> Biography: Prashant Nair is an Assistant Professor at the University of
> British Columbia (UBC), where he leads the Systems and Architectures (STAR)
> Lab. Additionally, he serves as an Affiliate Fellow at the Quantum
> Algorithms Institute. His research primarily focuses on memory systems. In
> recognition of his contributions, he received the 2024 TCCA Young Architect
> Award and was inducted into the MICRO and HPCA Halls of Fame. He has also
> received the 2023 HPCA Best Paper Award, two IEEE MICRO Top Picks honorable
> mentions, and the ECE Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award from
> Georgia Tech.
>
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