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Eyeing the future of smart cities
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/eyeing-the-future-of-smart-cities-2/Rambus principal research scientist Patrick Gill recently penned an article for Telecoms Tech about how lensless smart sensors (LSS) can potentially play an important role in building future smart cities. As Gill notes, LSS technology offers a fundamentally new approach to visual sensing by shifting the function of traditional optics to computation, thereby eliminating the […]
Managing memory more efficiently with Milk
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/managing-memory-more-efficiently-with-milk-2/Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have introduced a programming language extension known as Milk that allows app developers to manage memory more efficiently in programs with scattered data points in large data sets. To be sure, fetching data from memory banks is currently a major performance bottleneck, with cores grabbing […]
The role of FPGA acceleration in the data center and beyond
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/the-role-of-fpga-acceleration-in-the-data-center-and-beyond-2/The International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications recently convened in Lausanne, Switzerland. As Christoforos Kachris, a senior researcher at the National Technical University of Athens notes, exploring the role of FPGAs in the data center took center stage at the conference. “Christoph Hagleitne presented IBM’s view of the major applications where FPGAs can provide […]
Accelerating high performance computing systems
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/accelerating-high-performance-computing-systems-2/Esthela Gallardo and Patricia J. Teller have penned an article for HPC Wire that explores the various challenges associated with cross-accelerator performance profiling. As Gallardo and Teller note, high performance computing (HPC) systems are comprised of multiple compute nodes interconnected by a network. “Previously these nodes were composed solely of multi-core processors, but nowadays they also […]
Exploring future memory requirements for quantum computing
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/exploring-future-memory-requirements-for-quantum-computing-2/Quantum computing utilizes quantum-mechanical phenomena, including superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data. According to Wikipedia, quantum computers differ from traditional binary digital electronic systems based on transistors. To be sure, digital computing encodes data into binary digits (bits), each of which is always in one or two definite states: 0 or 1. In […]
Building a seismic supercomputer in the shadow of Dennard Scaling
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/building-a-seismic-supercomputer-in-the-shadow-of-dennard-scaling-2/Bert Beals of Cray Inc. recently told the Digital Energy Journal that the industry can no longer simply build an efficient supercomputer for seismic processing by simply adding more processors. Indeed, because Dennard Scaling no longer applies, advanced microprocessors now require more power and additional cooling for heat dissipation. Moreover, even though engineers might fit […]
Motherboard talks security and Rambus
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/motherboard-talks-security-and-rambus-2/Motherboard’s Michael Byrne recently covered a paper written by Rambus chief scientist Paul Kocher for Communications of the ACM. In the paper, Kocher observes that computer security issues have far exceeded the limits of the human brain. To illustrate his point, the chief scientist points to Ohio’s infamous Silver Bridge, which collapsed during rush hour […]
What if HAL 9000 had been lensless?
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/what-if-hal-9000-had-been-lensless-2/The fictional HAL 9000 is a sentient computer that made its infamous on-screen debut in Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the 1968 film directed by Stanley Kubrick, HAL is depicted in the form of multiple camera lenses containing a dot, which are scattered throughout the Discovery One spacecraft. According to HAL’s Legacy: […]
The growing demand for FPGAs in servers and data centers
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/the-growing-demand-for-fpgas-in-servers-and-data-centers-2/Jeff Dorsch of Semiconductor Engineering recently noted that there are a number of distinct advantages and drawbacks to various compute engines available on the market today. “[For example], CPUs offer high capacity at low latency. GPUs have the highest per-pin bandwidth. And FPGAs are designed to be very general,” writes Dorsch. “But each also has […]
Redesigning smart sensors for the IoT
https://www.rambus.com/blogs/redesigning-smart-sensors-for-the-iot-2/Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering observes that sensor technology is beginning to change on a fundamental level. Indeed, companies are now looking beyond the five senses – on which early sensors were modeled – to tailoring the versatile technology for specific applications. “In some cases, sensors don’t have to be as accurate as the sight, […]
