As the computing landscape shifts toward domain-specific architectures to meet the performance, efficiency, and scalability demands of emerging applications, different aspects of the computer system can also be domain-specific, including both the hardware and the software. In this talk, I will discuss how the evolving hardware architecture (and domain-specific architectures) impact computer systems from memory management perspective, including NPU architectures as well as PIM architectures. In particular, I will argue that the viability of PIM might lie in answering the following question - is PIM an accelerator or a memory?

Bio: John Kim is a full professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, Korea. John Kim received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and B.S/M.Eng from Cornell University. His research interests include computer architecture, interconnection networks, security, and accelerators & PIM. He has received a Google Faculty Research Award and Microsoft-Asia New Faculty Fellowship. He is listed in the Hall of Fame for ISCA, MICRO, and HPCA and is an IEEE Fellow.