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SUMMARY:Clouds\, Things and Robots: the need for innovation in Architectur
 e and Software - Prof David May - University of Bristol
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CONTACT:David Greaves
DESCRIPTION:The two major architectures in use today were both designed\nf
 or personal computers. But now\, personal computers are disappearing.\nIn 
 their place is a rapidly growing Internet of Things interfacing to a Cloud
  of\nmassively parallel computing systems - along with an emerging new\nsp
 ecies - Robots\, or 'cyber-physical-systems'.\n\nClouds need energy-effici
 ent computers\; they account for a rapidly\nincreasing proportion of world
 -wide energy consumption. They\nwill also need to support a diverse range 
 of applications using\nthousands of processors in both data intensive and 
 high-performance\ncomputing. 'Things' need low-power processing along with
  real-time\ninterfaces to the physical world. Robots need everything - eff
 icient systems\nthat combine real-time interfacing with embedded concurren
 t computing for\ncontrol and intelligence.\n\nI will explore the limitatio
 ns of our current architectures in\nthese new systems and the problems the
 y create for software - tools and\napplications. I will suggest some innov
 ations that could overcome these\nlimitations both in new architectures or
  in modifications to the existing\nones. Some of these 'innovations' date 
 from the 1980s!\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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