I’ll be at Stanford for the next few days for Hot Chips 20, a symposium on high performance chips. Sessions I’m particularly interested in:
- D.E. Shaw’s specialized ASIC for molecular dynamics which I’ve written about earlier and IBM’s PowerXCell powering Roadrunner.
- Upcoming architectures: AMD’s 780G and Intel’s Nehalem (dot products of special interest to me.)
- Chips tuned for network or IO (Sun’s Rock, Fujitsu’s SPARC64VII and Intel’s Tukwila.)
- Algorithmic content: Roofline models for automatic tuning of kernels (good addition to Demmel’s talk on the future of linear algebra from MMDS.)
- Intel’s Larrabee: response to “the can of whoop-ass” (detailed architectural paper from SIGRAPH.)
- CUDA: useful for a class of algorithms (based on memory access.)
I’m going to be trying something new this time — live blogging. I’ll try to push constant updates to my twitter stream : gane5h.
I’ll be staying at the Sheraton in Palo Alto. Drop me a line if you want to meetup for a chat.