Towards Next Generation Computing

A National Strategic Computing Initiative
WEBINAR Series Event 

25Electrical and Physical Characterization of Nano- and Non-Linear Devices for Future Computing

SPaFRutgers University's Office of Advanced Research Computing (OARC) and Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) are pleased to collaborate as one of the nation's few host sites for the limited-seat National Strategic Computing Initiative webinar series by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Please join us on Tuesday, April 25th from 1:00 - 3:00 pm as we present the NSCI WEBINAR Series Event "Towards Next Generation Computing" with speaker Heike Riel of IBM (Please note, our events have moved to Room 601 in the CoRE Building and are limited-access simulcast.)

About the presentation:" “In the past 50 years computing was driven by “smaller & denser” resulting in “faster & cheaper”. Cost per function has decreased tremendously, while system performance and reliability have been improved significantly. Dimension scaling alone is no longer sufficient and various paths are pursued to increase system performance. In order to further extend core logic and memory technology roadmaps significant innovation in materials, devices and architectures is required. 

We are investigating key technologies to continue the roadmap, e.g., gate-all-around nanowires, III-V semiconducting nanowires for high-mobility field-effect transistors (FETs), III-V heterostructure tunnel FETs as steep slope devices or carbon nanotube FETs. In parallel other technologies to build new systems such as heterogeneous integration, 3D packaging, system-on-chip, silicon photonics and others are pushed to increase system level performance. 

Yet despite all of these innovative technologies, the speed of increasing the density of transistors has slowed down. This raises the fundamental question of what is next? What is the future of information technology beyond scaling and traditional computing? In that regard completely new computing paradigms are developed such as quantum computing and non-von Neumann computing. The latter is also driven by the fundamental changes of the workloads in cognitive computing and IoT. Accelerating machine learning and deep learning is a key requirement for new compute systems. 

In this presentation I will give an overview of our research activities in the field of extending the core logic/memory technology roadmaps and in the new paradigms of cognitive hardware technologies and quantum computing." (Heike Riel)

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