The seminar covers core concepts and ideas in the general area of computer systems, ranging from software and hardware architectures to system design for operating systems, data processing systems, and distributed systems.

The seminar covers recent results in the increasingly important field of computing technologies’ impact on our environment. We will learn the impact of device manufacturing, energy consumption, and the role that workloads have. Most importantly, we will discuss what can be done to address this environmental impact.

The seminar will cover topics related to data processing using new hardware in general and hardware accelerators (GPU, FPGA, specialized processors) in particular.

The seminar covers heterogeneous systems, those that make use of different types of computing (GPUs, FPGA, ASICs, etc.) and/or memory (NVM/SCM). Our focus will be the systems and architectures that use these devices.