{"613920":{"#nid":"613920","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Center for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies Explores Solutions from the Entire Stack","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe density of transistors in microchips can no longer be expected to double every year, but there are only a few researchers dedicated to solving the end of Moore\u0026rsquo;s law from all angles. They gathered at Georgia Tech for the second annual \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.crnch.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Research into Novel Computing Hierarchies (CRNCH)\u003C\/a\u003E Summit on Nov. 2.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore than 80 faculty members, industry partners, and students attended the all-day summit, which featured 10 plenary talks on the future of computingand concluded with a panel discussion of these suggestions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe day reflected how much CRNCH has set the agenda for new computing hierarchies for the entire stack since it was founded in 2016 by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/profiles.cc.gatech.edu\/thomas-conte\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETom Conte\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the schools of Computer Science (SCS) and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EElectrical and Computer\u003C\/a\u003E Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Three years ago, when Moore\u0026rsquo;s law was on its death bed, most architects went into mourning, but Tom was different,\u0026rdquo; College of Computing Dean \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/zvi-galil\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EZvi Galil\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said during his opening remarks. \u0026ldquo;Immediately after the funeral, he created CRNCH to actually do something.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECRNCH has grown ever since. Now the center has more than 30 dedicated faculty members from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E. This year, SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vivek-sarkar\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E was named co-director to offer his high performance computing and programming languages expertise. CRNCH\u0026rsquo;s first research lab \u0026mdash; the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/598660\/crnch-launches-summit-future-post-moore-computing\u0022\u003ERogues Gallery\u003C\/a\u003E , a collection of \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/595889\/crnchs-rogues-gallery-wants-bring-weirdest-hardware-campus\u0022\u003Enovel hardware\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; continues to add \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/605825\/crnch-hosts-neuromorphic-workshop\u0022\u003Enew hardware\u003C\/a\u003E and has pioneered industry connections with partners such as \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/596243\/georgia-tech-awarded-iarpa-contract-evaluate-emu-technology-system\u0022\u003EEmu Technologies\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Everyone is coming up with new architectures, but what happens when these architectures meet real programmers and real students?\u0026rdquo; \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~jriedy\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Riedy\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cse.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, said of the Rogues Gallery. \u0026ldquo;We\u0026rsquo;re trying to break the idea of \u0026lsquo;it\u0026rsquo;s too much work\u0026rsquo; to try something new.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECRNCH is all about trying something new, \u0026ldquo;the crazier the better,\u0026rdquo; as Conte said. The plenary talks covered a lot of innovations that could propel computing forward from architecture and artificial intelligence to quantum computing and algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESome research highlights:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/dana-randall\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in SCS and co-executive director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Science and Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, suggested using emergent computation, which she defines as predictable macro changes to system as the user modifies a few parameters.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/moin.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMoinuddin Qureshi\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in ECE, highlighted the potential of quantum computing.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Quantum computing is exotic and seems like something only physics and mathematics can touch, but it\u0026rsquo;s very important for the field that engineers are aware of this,\u0026rdquo; Qureshi said. \u0026ldquo;The real metric for success is reliability. If we can come up with good architectures and compilers that can reduce the error rate, that can be a big win.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAnother goal of the summit was to invite collaboration, and many presenters detailed how novel architectures could benefit their research, including:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ornl.gov\/staff-profile\/david-e-womble\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDavid Womble\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, director of Artificial Intelligence Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, discussed the lab\u0026rsquo;s efforts in AI for endeavors such as bioscience, material synthesis, and additive manufacturing that require thinking about computing in a new way to achieve success.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.pnnl.gov\/science\/staff\/staff_info.asp?staff_num=9441\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Ang\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, manager of Physical \u0026amp; Computational Sciences at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, presented the history and the future of high performance computing in the Department of Energy\u0026rsquo;s national labs.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/directory\/faculty\/poovey\/index.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJason Poovey\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a research scientist at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorge Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E, emphasized how the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chai.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Health Analytics and Informatics (CHAI)\u003C\/a\u003E needs new scalable architectures for the health data they work with.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA keynote from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engineering.nd.edu\/profiles\/pkogge\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Kogge\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a distinguished professor at Notre Dame and IEEE Computer Society Pioneer award winner, perhaps summed up best the challenges and opportunities of this post-Moore era that CRNCH is eager to take on.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Post-Moore is going to be heavily heterogeneous, lots of new technologies will show up first as accelerators, clock rates will continue to go flat meaning we will have billions of threads, and power efficiency is paramount,\u0026rdquo; he said. \u0026ldquo;We need some new thinking to get around this.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CRNCH hosted its second annual summit."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-11-06 16:04:02","changed_gmt":"2018-11-06 16:59:39","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-11-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613923":{"id":"613923","type":"image","title":"CRNCH Summit Poster","body":null,"created":"1541523553","gmt_created":"2018-11-06 16:59:13","changed":"1541523553","gmt_changed":"2018-11-06 16:59:13","alt":"CRNCH Summit poster session","file":{"fid":"233699","name":"0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":69515,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/0.jpg?itok=1udmY_b-"}}},"media_ids":["613923"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39461","name":"Manufacturing, Trade, and Logistics"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}