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John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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John Hennessy and David Patterson deliver their Turing Lecture on the future of computer architecture, focusing on domain-specific hardware and open instruction sets.

2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients John Hennessy and David Patterson delivered their Turing Lecture on June 4 at ISCA 2018 in Los Angeles. The lecture took place from 5 - 6 p.m. PDT and was open to the public. Titled “A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Domain-Specific Hardware/Software Co-Design, Enhanced Security, Open Instruction Sets, and Agile Chip Development,” the talk will cover recent developments and future directions in computer architecture. Hennessy and Patterson were recognized with the Turing Award for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.”

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What people say. Recommended as a great overview of the past, present, and future of chip performance and the shift toward domain-specific architectures.

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trimboon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Intel’s 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake SoC Detailed”

I consistently recommend Hennessy and Patterson's Turing Award Talk1 as a good overview of the past, present and future of chip performance. 1 - This will take you directly to the meat of the discussion: link to this video

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A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture (2017) John Hennessy and David Patterson on: 1. History of Architecture - Mainframes - Minicomputers - Microprocessors 2. Current Architecture Challenges - Ending of Dennard Scaling and Moore's Law - Security 3. Future Architecture Opportunities - Domain Specific Languages and Architectures - Open Architectures (mostly RISC-V) - Agile Hardware Development Skip to 6:00 to get to the meat.

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John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture
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On “Another Step Toward the End of Moore’s Law”

I recommend watching the Turing Award speech by Patterson and Hennessey which covers this topic. Spoiler: the way out is "Domain Specific Architectures". link to this video

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On “The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer [video]”

When you posted about joining Oxide I couldn't quite figure out what they (now you) do by looking at the homepage. I stumbled across this other lecture ( link to this video ) that is along the same line of thinking, and it started to make sense.

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John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

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On “John Hennessy and David Patterson Turing Award Lectures (2018) [video]”

Interesting off-the-cuff comments1 about quantum computing in the question period: Patterson: You may get a question "Won't quantum computing ..." — No! Quantum computing is a really exciting; it's not going to happen tomorrow. Hennessy: It's about on the same time-scale as fusion design. 1 link to this video

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On “The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-Design by Chris Lattner”

Presentation slides: link Related - John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture: link to this video

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On “I hate almost all software”

They are. Patterson & Hennessy at their Turing Award lecture back in 2017, when they started talking about where future opportunities for increased speed were going to come from, the very first thing they took a (polite) dump on was how software was written very inefficiently: link to this video The old canard that programmer time was worth more than processing time that bad coders quote is less and less true by the year; SWEs who are able to wring better performance out of less hardware resources are going to become more valuable in the future.