Submitted by Jorge Ejarque on
The current computing ecosystem is becoming more and more heterogeneous. On the one hand, trends in computer architectures focuses on providing different computing devices (CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs) and memories in a single chip or computing node, with the aim of providing better computing devices for the different types of algorithms and applications.
Submitted by Karim Dejemame on
“In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, but aspects of a single trend – mainstream computers from desktops to ‘smartphones’ are being permanently transformed into heterogeneous supercomputer clusters. Henceforth, a single compute-intensive application will need to harness different kinds of cores, in immense numbers, to get its job done.
The free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle.”
