Tutorial on 3D Integration for Computer Architects

To be held at ISCA 2008, Date: Saturday, June 21st, 2008, Afternoon (half-day)

Tutorial Materials now posted. Click on the "(pdf)" below. Thanks to all who presented and attended for making this second tutorial a great success!

3D die-stacking integration is a new fabrication technology that is already in use in the embedded industry, and is likely to play a major role in future high-performance microprocessor design. However, industry may be reluctant to accept the risk of this new technology as there are currently no 3D processor designs, and architects may not wish to invest the effort in designing a new microarchitecture if 3D might not be implemented in the target process technology. The goal of this tutorial is enable the community to pursue relevant and impactful 3D architecture research by educating computer architects on the following topics:
  • Industrial Presentations and Perspectives
    • IBM Corporation (pdf)
    • Intel Corporation (pdf)
  • The State of 3D Research
    • 3D Tools/CAD/EDA (pdf)
    • 3D Computer Architecture (pdf)
Speaker Bios
Dr. Jian Li, IBM Corporation   Jian Li is a research staff member at the Novel System Architecture group, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas. He received his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University (Beijing) and Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. He has worked in the areas of architectural support for power- and variation-aware computing, interconnection network design for high-performance computing systems and workload-driven 3D architecture evaluation, with a strong emphasis on entertaining his two female family members in Austin.
Jerry Bautista, Intel Corporation   Jerry Bautista is the Director of Technology Management for Intel's Microprocessor Research Laboratory and is chartered with driving the transfer of the lab's research into product development and helping to set Intel.s strategic research agenda for future microprocessors. He co-leads the Intel Tera-scale Computing Research program, driving technologies for highly parallel, compute intensive applications and platforms. In addition, he leads a cross-Intel effort to explore memory/interconnect bandwidth challenges/solutions for future server and client platforms. Previous to joining Intel, Jerry was the CTO of an optical device start-up and spent 13 years at Lucent Technologies in the field of optical components and communication systems/networks, with assignments ranging from basic research (at Murray Hill Bell Labs) to development, operations and strategic marketing. He received his B.S. from Stanford University and PhD from Princeton University.
Prof. Jason Cong, UCLA   Jason Cong received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is a professor and the chairman of the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a co-director of the VLSI CAD Laboratory. Dr. Cong's research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems, design and synthesis of system-on-a-chip, programmable systems, novel computer architectures, nano-systems, and highly scalable algorithms. He has published over 250 research papers and led over 30 research projects in these areas. Dr. Cong received a number of awards and recognitions, including t the Ross J. Martin Award for Excellence in Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993, the Northrop Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award from UCLA in 1993, the ACM/SIGDA Meritorious Service Award in 1998, and the SRC Technical Excellence Award in 2000. He also received four Best Paper Awards selected for the 1995 IEEE Trans. on CAD, the 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), the 2005 ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, and the 2008 International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), respectively. He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in 2000.
Prof. Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, Georgia Tech   Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. His research interests include computer architecture, power-efficient circuits, cyber security, 3D graphics, and 3D integrated circuits (a different kind of 3D). Prior to joining academia, he was a senior computer architect at Intel Corporation in both product design teams (MD6) and the microprocessor research labs (MRL). He later joined as the architecture manager of StarCore DSP Technology Center, a joint center of Lucent/Agere Systems and Motorola. Dr. Lee's doctoral thesis was awarded the Horace H. Rackham School Distinguished Dissertation Award at the University of Michigan. He has co-authored three papers that won the Best Paper Awards in MICRO-33, CASES-04, and IBM PAC2-05 and two papers nominated for the Best Paper Award in HPEC-2007 and FPL-2007. Dr. Lee received the Department of Energy Early CAREER PI Award in 2005, the 2006 ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Member Award at Georgia Tech, and the NSF CAREER Award in 2007. Dr. Lee holds 4 U.S. patents in the area of memory subsystems and 3D graphics. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE.
Organized by
  Gabriel Loh (loh <at> cc . gatech . edu)
  Yuan Xie (yuanxie <at> cse . psu . edu)
Feel free to contact either of us with any questions or for further information.


Program at a Glance
1pm Jian Li (IBM) 60 min.
2pm Jerry Bautista (Intel) 60 min.
3pm break 30 min.
3:30pm Jason Cong (UCLA) 45 min.
4:15pm Hsien-Hsin S. Lee (GaTech) 45 min.


We have posted all of the presentations from the MICRO-2006 tutorial here. Hopefully this will be of use to all of you interested in 3D integration research.



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