Advance Program

Tutorials: Sunday, August 25, 2024

Title Presenters
Breakfast/Registration
 
Tutorial 1: AI Assisted Hardware Design - Will AI Elevate or Replace Hardware Engineers?

Chair: Bryan Chin, UCSD
 
Introduction
Bryan Chin, UCSD
Overview of AI in Chip Design
Mark Ren, NVIDIA
Model Customization and Inference
Stelios Diamantidis, Synopsys
Coffee Break (1/2 hr)
 
Tutorial 1: AI Assisted Hardware Design - Will AI Elevate or Replace Hardware Engineers?

Chair: Bryan Chin, UCSD
 
AI assisted RTL Design
Hanxian Huang, UCSD
Increasing Chip Design Productivity
Hans Bouwmeester, PrimisAI
Future Directions & Panel Discussion
 
Lunch (1 hr 15 min)
 
Tutorial 2: The Cooling of Hot Chips: How thermal technology is keeping up with the AI revolution

Chair: Seshu Madhavapeddy, Frore Systems
 
Thermal techniques for higher data center compute density
Tom Garvens, Supermicro
Thermal challenges of Edge Devices
Nader Nikfar, Qualcomm
Coffee Break (1/2 hr)
 
Tutorial 2: The Cooling of Hot Chips: How thermal technology is keeping up with the AI revolution

Chair: Seshu Madhavapeddy, Frore Systems
 
Solid-state active cooling helps maintain Moore’s Law
Prabhu Sathyamurthy, Frore Systems
Applications for thermo-electric cooling
Jesse Edwards, Phononic
Reception
 

Conference Day 1: Monday, August 26, 2024

Title Presenters
Breakfast/Registration
 
Welcome
 
General Chair Welcome
Ron Diamant, General Chair
Progam Co-Chairs Welcome
Rob Aitken & Larry Yang, PC Co-Chairs
High-Performance Processors Part 1

Chair: Doug Carmean
 
Snapdragon X Elite Qualcomm Oryon CPU: Design & Architecture Overview
Gerard Williams, Qualcomm
Lunar Lake: Powering the Next Generation of AI PCs
Arik Gihon, Intel
The next-generation ~5.5GHz IBM Z Processor and AI Inferencing Accelerator chipset
Christian Jacobi, IBM
Coffee Break
 
Specialized Processors

Chair: Renu Raman
 
Envise-Beta: a light-based AI inference accelerator
Darius Bunandar, Lightmatter
SK Hynix AI-Specific Computing Memory Solution: From AiM device to Heterogeneous AiMX-xPU System for Comprehensive LLM Inference
Guhyun Kim, SK Hynix
Built for the Edge: The next generation Granite Rapids D
Praveen Mosur, Intel
Lunch (1 hr 15 min)
 
Keynote #1

Chair: Ralph Wittig
 
Keynote
Trevor Cai, OpenAI
AI Processors Part 1

Chair: Pradeep Dubey
 
NVIDIA Blackwell GPU: Advancing Generative AI and Accelerated Computing
Ajay Tirumala and Raymond Wong, NVIDIA
SambaNova SN40L RDU: Breaking the Barrier of Trillion+ Parameter Scale Gen AI Computing
Raghu Prabhakar, SambaNova
Coffee Break (1/2 hr)
 
AI Processors Part 2

Chair: David Weaver
 
Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator: Architected for Gen AI Training and Inference
Eitan Joshua, Intel
AMD Instinct MI300X Generative AI Accelerator and Platform Architecture
Alan Smith and Vamsi Krishna Alla, AMD
An AI Compute ASIC with Optical Attach to Enable Next Generation Scale-up Architectures
Manish Mehta, Rajiv Pancholy, Sheng Zhang, Anand Ramaswamy and Greg Winn, Broadcom
RNGD: A Tensor Contraction Processor
Sang Min Lee and Minho Kim, Furiosa
Reception
 

Conference Day 2: Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Title Presenters
Breakfast/Registration
 
AI Processors Part 3

Chair: Yasuo Ishii
 
Next Generation AMD Versal AI Edge Series for Vision and Automotive
Jeffrey Chu, Tomai Knopp and Sagheer Ahmad, AMD
Onyx: A Programmable Accelerator for Sparse Tensor Algebra
Kalhan Koul, Stanford
Next Gen MTIA - Meta’s Recommendation Inference Accelerator
Olivia Wu, Meta
Coffee Break
 
Networking Processors

Chair: Jae W. Lee
 
DOJO: An Exa-Scale Lossy AI Network using the Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE)
Eric Quinnell, Tesla
ACF-S: An 8-Tbit/s SuperNIC for High-Performance Data Movement in AI & Accelerated Compute Networks
Rochan Sankar, Enfabrica
4 Tbit/s Optical Compute Interconnect Chiplet for XPU-to-XPU Connectivity
Saeed Fathololoumi, Intel
Lunch (1 hr 15 min)
 
Keynote #2

Chair: Ian Bratt
 
Keynote
Victor Peng, AMD
High-Performance Processors Part 2

Chair: Nhon Quach
 
Impactful Silicon for Near Memory Compute and Memory Expansion
Howard Borchew and Wilson Snyder, Marvell
XiangShan: An Open-Source Project for High-Performance RISC-V Processors Meeting Industrial-Grade Standards
Kaifan Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Coffee Break (1/2 hr)
 
High-Performance Processors Part 3

Chair: Lingjie Xu
 
AmpereOne: Sustainable Computing for AI & Cloud Native Workloads
Atiq Bajwa and Matthew Erler, Ampere Computing
Inside MAIA 100
Sherry Xu, Microsoft
AMD Next Generation “Zen 5” Core
Brad Cohen and Mike Clark, AMD
MN-Core 2: Second-generation processor of MN-Core architecture for AI and general-purpose HPC applications
Jun Makino, Preferred Networks
IEEE TCMM Awards
 
IEEE TCMM Awards
Gabriel Southern, TCMM Chair
Closing Remarks
 
Closing Remarks
Jan-Willem van de Waerdt, Vice Chair