Advantages of Near Flash Computing with Arvind

In this episode

PRODUCED BY: Nate Caldwell

CSAIL Professor Arvind details his work in Near-storage computing. He explains how he's using flash storage instead of massive amounts of DRAM for big data problems.

Podcast transcript can be accessed here.

About the speakers

Arvind -

Professor, MIT CSAIL

Arvind is the Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Arvind’s group, in collaboration with Motorola, built the Monsoon dataflow machines and its associated software in the late eighties. In 2000, Arvind started Sandburst which was sold to Broadcom in 2006. In 2003, Arvind co-founded Bluespec Inc., an EDA company to produce a set of tools for high-level synthesis. In 2001, Dr. R. S. Nikhil and Arvind published the book "Implicit parallel programming in pH". Arvind's current research focus is on enabling rapid development of embedded systems.

Arvind is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences