arch-beerWeekly Reading |
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Nate is presenting... "Research Directions" Webpage Consumers will always demand more performance from their computer systems. Real-time ray tracing and speech recognition are just two of the many compelling applications that remain outside of the computational capabilities of current computers. Recently, however, the traditional method of attaining performance through higher processor clock frequencies has driven power consumption to a point where it is too expensive to cool the processors. This trend, known as The Power Wall, has led to a focus on computational efficiency (getting the most work out of each joule) as a key metric in computer system designs. This talk will describe some of my previous work on making computation more efficient in processors through architectural customization. I will also discuss future directions I plan to explore in this area, in the hopes of recruiting a really good PhD student or two :) |