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SUMMARY:The next resource war: computation vs. communication - Simon Moore
  &amp\; Dan Greenfield\, Computer Lab.
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CONTACT:Prof Simon Moore
DESCRIPTION:Scaling of electronics technology has brought us to a pivotal 
 point in the design of computational devices. Technology scaling favours t
 ransistors over wires which has led us into an era where communication tak
 es more time and consumes more power than the computation itself. This tec
 hnology driver inevitably pushes us toward a communication-centric approac
 h to computer system design from both hardware and software perspectives. 
 As a consequence the data movement in time and space exhibited by algorith
 ms will need to be understood to undertake system-level performance predic
 tions. We demonstrate that algorithms exhibit fractal like communication b
 ehaviour which is likely to help with such an analysis.
LOCATION:SS03\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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