[Crib-list] TODAY: Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar (CRIBB) -- Friday, October 1, 2010 -- 12:30 PM -- Room 32-124 (fwd)

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .

 	COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND Seminar


DATE:		Friday, October 1, 2010
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 124  (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:10 PM outside Room 32-124.)


TITLE:		Compromised Computihg:  The Practical Approach to Energy
 		Efficient System Design


SPEAKER:	ANDREAS OLOFSSON  (Adapteva, Inc.)


ABSTRACT:

The last 40 years has seen incredible improvements in computing performance, 
power efficiency, density and cost.  Unfortunately, it looks like the free ride 
is over and we are now faced with some serious issues to keep this trend going. 
Single-threaded performance stopped scaling years ago and chip designers are 
now having serious power issues as process technology scales to 28nm and 
beyond.  As an industry we are now faced with a tough choice. Do we continue 
with the traditional programming model for high performance applications and 
accept the fact that the processing budget will be strictly limited by our 
battery/electricity budget or do we adopt a radical new programming model that 
would allow us to significantly reduce the hardware overhead associated with 
traditional Von Neumann architectures.  We present a "compromised computing" 
approach to the problem, which combines a new C-programmable floating point 
math accelerator with traditional silicon architectures to enable real 
applications with an immediate order of magnitude better energy efficiency.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

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