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Fall 2008 Research Exchange Seminar Series

Citris researcher Tingrui Pan has created a "smart" lense.

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Computing of the Future

Crowne Plaza Hotel, San Francisco Airport
February 29, 2008

This workshop addresses key opportunities and challenges of Future Computing, in the architecture, nanotechnologies, interconnection, and systems areas.

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Ultra-high Performance, Low Power, and Ubiquitous Data Centers on a Chip

Today’s computing has been a great success. Healthcare, financial, communication, and entertainment industries rely heavily on data centers. By some estimates, the amount of data processed in data centers is doubling every year. At this pace, there will be needs for many ultrahigh-performance data centers processing 1000 times more data in the next decade. However, today’s data centers typically consume ~ Megawatts of power, require > 100 racks, and weigh many tons. Scaling to a larger scale and higher performance data centers and supercomputing centers is fundamentally difficult even if the Moore ’s law successfully continues to realize highly-integrated computing chips. In fact, the Moore ’s law is already facing significant challenges due to the fundamental issues such as atomic dimensions, impedance, and power dissipation (the power-per-processing ratio is not improving). On the other hand, recent advances in nano- and micro-photonics promises great potentials for interconnecting and switching information on the same platform as electronics.