Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: AMD
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The IT Ecosystem and Global Competitiveness
I recently chaired a U.S. National Academies study on the issues surrounding the end of Dennard scaling and its implications for U.S. industry, defense capabilities and national security. The report, The New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing: Implications for U.S. Competitiveness and National Security, was just released. It is a cautionary tale about the Gordian…
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ManyCore: Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba
As I write this, I am attending the ETH LASER summer school on concurrency, which is being held on the island of Elba. As I prepare to deliver six lectures on multicore and cloud computing, the geographic irony of grand ambition, hubris and ignominious defeat is not lost on me. We have been struggling for…