High performance system design
Network convergence over 10/40Gb Data Center Ethernet
• Protocols and standards
• Switch and NIC roadmaps
• FcoE and IBoE technologies
Cluster and I/O interfaces
• PCIe Gen 2 and Gen 3
• Intel I/OAT
• MPI, RDMA, Open Fabrics
SMP interconnects
• QPI and HyperTransport
• Multicore programming
Accelerator architectures and limitations
• GPGPU’s
• FPGA’s
• NPU’s
• OpenCL programming
Processors
• Intel roadmap
• AMD roadmap
H/W development
System Verilog, VHDL
Design tools: Xilinx, Altera, ASIC’s, Boards
Simulation: Modelsim/Questasim
Software development
C, Python, C++
Perl, Javascript, Bash
LAMP development
Linux, SVN, Bugzilla
Algorithm development
Matlab
Simulink, Sysgen
SKILLSET
© 2009 Robert Blau