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A Moore's Law Forecast: Cloudy with a strong chance of ML

Series: Department Seminar

Speaker: Dr. Partha Ranganathan Vice President and Technical Fellow at Google

Date/Time: Sep 01 19:30:00

Location: Microsoft Teams - ONLINE

Abstract:
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Growing volumes of data, smarter edge devices, and new, diverse workloads are causing demand for computing to grow at phenomenal rates. At the same time, Moore's law is slowing down, stressing traditional assumptions around cheaper and faster systems every year. How do you respond to the current opportunities, exponentially increasing compute capacity at a fixed cost? Specifically, we will discuss the innovations and trends shaping the future computing landscape -- more "out-of-the-box" designs that consider the entire datacenter as a computer for custom silicon and software-defined infrastructure, broader open innovation ecosystems, and a whole lot of machine learning (ML).

Speaker Bio:
Partha Ranganathan is currently a VP, technical Fellow at Google where he is the area technical lead for hardware and datacenters, designing systems at scale. Prior to this, he was a HP Fellow and Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs where he led their research on systems and data centers. Partha has worked on several interdisciplinary systems projects with broad impact on both academia and industry, including widely-used innovations in energy-aware user interfaces, heterogeneous multi-cores, power-efficient servers, accelerators, and disaggregated and data-centric data centers. He has published extensively (including being the co-author on the popular "Datacenter as a Computer" textbook), is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents, and has been recognized with numerous awards. He has been named a top-15 enterprise technology rock star by Business Insider, one of the top 35 young innovators in the world by MIT Tech Review, and is a recipient of the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award, Rice University's Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni award, and the IIT Madras distinguished alumni award. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, and is currently on the board of directors for OpenCompute.

Host Faculty: Arkaprava Basu