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SUMMARY:The Future of Computer Architecture - Gavin Stark\, Visiting Fello
 w\, Computer Laboratory
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DTEND:20161129T163000Z
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CONTACT:Robert Mullins
DESCRIPTION:The silicon industry is struggling to push process technology 
 to get smaller\, faster transistors\, and the past trajectory is not being
  followed. It is also struggling\, though\, in making use of the transisto
 rs that it can produce today. It is not unreasonable to suggest 10 billion
  transistor devices in 14nm\, and there may come a point where 100 billion
  transistors can be used in a single die\; coupling multiple dice will pro
 vide even larger problems. So even without a reignition of Moore's Law\, c
 omputer architecture has real problems to solve\, and these are not necess
 arily being addressed today.\n\nConsider also that computer architecture h
 as two masters to please - the hardware engineers that must make it a real
 ity\, and the software engineers that must make use of it\; and further\, 
 that software engineering struggles to develop use of computer architectur
 e that has not been realized in hardware - there can be a large time gap b
 etween evolutionary architectural steps and their benefit.\n\nIn this semi
 nar I will cover the scale of the architectural problem\, some of the phys
 ical limitations that silicon engineers face\, and the subsequent opportun
 ities for innovation (and some pointers on how to progress...).\n\n   ----
 ---------\n\nGavin Stark is a Visiting Fellow at the Computer Laboratory a
 nd is responsible for silicon architecture and Netronome\, a high speed co
 mmunications processing company. He read CompSci at Cambridge\, before wor
 king at Acorn Computers at the birth of ARM\, returning to do a PhD in com
 munications with Prof. Hopper. Starting a career in silicon design and arc
 hitecture at Virata and then Cirrus Logic\, he led Basis Communications as
  CTO before its acquisition be Intel in 2000. Leaving Intel in 2003\, he r
 eturned to Cambridge in 2006 and took on silicon architecture at Netronome
 . Through the years he has architected and designed six generations of net
 work processors\, the latest supporting hundreds of cores in 22nm designs 
 with billions of transistors.\n
LOCATION:SW01\, Computer Laboratory
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