Abstract: The community (both industrial and academic) has acknowledged the shift to multi-core systems with a corresponding increased emphasis on software concurrency and concurrency features in hardware to achieve performance. I will discuss the implications of this shift on the already challenging process of building a correctly behaving system.

Bio: Ravi Rajwar is a microprocessor architect in the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation. His interests include theoretical and practical aspects of computer architecture and system design. As a researcher, he has investigated resource-efficient microprocessors and architectural support for improving programmability of parallel software. He received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2002, a MS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998, and a BE from the University of Roorkee, India, in 1994, all in Computer Science.

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