Ep 22: Measuring Datacenter Efficiency and Visioning the Future of Computer Architecture with Dr. Babak Falsafi, EPFL

Dr. Babak Falsafi is a Professor at EPFL, the founding president of the Swiss Data Center Efficiency Association, and the founder of EcoCloud, an academic consortium focused on sustainable IT. His contributions to computer architecture include the invention of spatial and temporal memory streaming (SMS prefetchers) found in ARM cores and laying the groundwork for fence speculation by defining memory ordering requirements in modern CPUs. He is a key figure in cloud-native server design, with his work forming the foundation for the first-generation Cavium ARM server CPUs. He is a former chair of the SIGARCH Executive Committee, a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE.

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Ep 22: Measuring Datacenter Efficiency and Visioning the Future of Computer Architecture with Dr. Babak Falsafi, EPFL is an episode from Computer Architecture Podcast by comparchpodcast.

This episode is 63:20 long.

This episode was published on Dec 10, 2025.

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