Title: A 384-way Java Appliance
Speaker: Cliff Click, Azul Systems
Date: 10/26/2005, 1pm, Packard 101

The Azul Java appliance is a throughput-oriented Java server.  At the
center is a very simple 3-address RISC CPU with a fair amount of
cache; it makes an ideal JIT target but doesn't directly execute
bytecodes.  Because the core is simple we can fit 24 on a die; up to
16 dies can be tied together in a cache-coherent UMA server.

Bio: 
Dr. Cliff Click, PhD
Senior Staff Engineer and Chief JVM Architect

With more than twenty-five years experience developing compilers Cliff
serves as Azul Systems' Chief JVM Architect. Cliff joined Azul in 2002
from Sun Microsystems where he was the architect and lead developer of
the HotSpot Server Compiler, a technology that has delivered dramatic
improvements in Java performance since its inception. Previously he
was with Motorola where he helped deliver industry leading SpecInt2000
scores on PowerPC chips, and before that he researched compiler
technology at HP Labs. Cliff has been writing optimizing compilers and
JITs for over 15 years. He is invited to speak regularly at industry
and academic conferences including JavaOne, JVM'04 and VEE'05 and has
published many papers about HotSpot technology. Cliff holds a PhD in
Computer Science from Rice University .