1. Lecture 14 Put It All Together at Work
Graduate Computer Architecture
Fall 2005
Shih-Hao Hung
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University

2. Hopefully…
In the future, you know how to apply what you have learned in this class:
Write good software
Design a good system
Analyze a complicated system
Understand other’s work

3. My Advices Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Even a Ph.D. shouldn’t confine himself/herself in an Ivory Tower by just working on very narrow topics
Who knows what will be the hot topics 5 years from now?
Always look at the big picture
Try to connect the big picture with your job functions.

4. Life after Graduation Repeat Find a good company Find a good manager
Find a good team
Find your place in a team
Find your place in the company
Find your company’s place in the business
Find your heart
Find important things in your life

5. My Work Experience (1) Find a good company Find a good manager
Sun Micro was among the top in Year 2000
Find a good manager
I was lucky
Find a good team
Top talents may not work well together
Chemistry to bind a team
Need all kinds of skills
Share the same goal

6. My Work Experience (2) Find your place in a team
Technical leader
Special expert
Work horse
Find your place in the company
Building up your credit
Become an expert in certain areas
Promotion and visibility will come
Find your company’s place in the business
Will Sun rise again?
Sun needs to win with vision and technology

7. My Work Experience (3) Find your heart
To be or not to be a manager
Career goals
Rewards
Challenges
Mental health
Find important things in your life
Family
Friendship
Have a life

8. Career Brief
[2000.9] Join Sun’s Performance and Availability Engineering Group as a MTS
[ ] Gigabit Network performance characterization on Sun servers
[ ] Performance analysis of Sun Crypto Accelerator I
[ ] Performance analysis of TPC-W benchmark on Sun servers
[ ] Performance tuning of Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000
[2001.5] Internet bubble burst
[ ] 911 Attack, Stock all time low
[2002.4] World record server-side SSL performance
[2002.8] Promoted to Staff Engineer
[ ] Performance tuning of Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000
[ ] SSL & IPsec performance on Sun servers
[2003] SSL performance: competitive analysis
[2004] Contributing to Solaris Crypto Framework
[2004] Jupiter: Next-generation low-cost CMT processor w/SSL & XML acceleration
[2005.2] Left Sun to join NTU

9. Work Style Work smart Work with people Do useful work
Put useful work together
Methodology
Organize and present results
Expand your expertise and domain knowledge
Get work done with help from people
Work with people
Learn from people
Exchange favors
Responsive
Respect
Trust
People skill
Resolve/accept political issues

10. Project Example Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000
Participated in early development phase
Specific performance requirement
Complicated HW design
Complicated performance issues
Experiences from SCA1 & SCA1000
Constantly changing firmware & software
Remote collaboration
Work from application to driver

17. Conclusion
Over the last 50+ years computer architecture is a rapidly changing
Science and engineering
Hardware and software
Consider this a historical course which took you to visit the key architecture concepts and designs in the history of computers.
The more you know, the more tools in your box when you need to solve a problem. No need to invent new wheels.
What is also important is to learn the way problems were solved. Your success at work has a lot depend on your problem solving skills and methodology.