Keynote

Speaker:
Kevin Kissell

Kevin D. Kissell

Technical Director for HPC and Quantum Computing
Office of the CTO at Google, USA

Title: The Challenges of Hybrid Computing

Abstract:

It has been clear for some time that the future of high-performance computing is hybrid, and “hybrid” in multiple senses of the word. Hybrid CPU/GPU, hybrid physics based/ML, and hybrid on-prem/cloud are just the most obvious cross-fertilizations of technology in pursuit of higher performance, lower cost, and greater ease of use for researchers. This talk will explore the fruits of these hybridizations, the challenges they create for operating systems, and some of the solutions that we’ve found so far.

Biography:

Before joining Google Cloud’s office of the CTO, Kevin Kissell was by turns both a senior staff hardware engineer and software engineer at Google, developing interconnect architectures and accelerator virtualization schemes. Prior to Google, his work ranged from supercomputers to smart cards: Systems and software architecture for decoupled access/execute supercomputers at ACRI, massively parallel distributed memory computers at nCUBE, large-scale shared-memory supercomputers at Evans & Sutherland, and, at the opposite extreme, embedded architectures for chip card security/cryptography and multi-threaded I/O processing cores, at MIPS Technologies. He holds several dozen patents in computer architecture and a degree in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.