Look out Below! Computing on the Small Scale

A talk from the 2015 UNM Shared Knowledge Conference. I ended up receiving second place in the speaking competition.

Screencast available via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72eUtvNhmyU

Transcript

1. C O M P U T I N G O N T H E S M A L L S C A L E L O O K O U T B E L O W ! T R AV I S L S C H O LT E N ! C E N T E R F O R C O M P U T I N G R E S E A R C H S A N D I A N AT I O N A L L A B O R AT O R I E S U N M S H A R E D K N O W L E D G E C O N F E R E N C E ! 2 0 1 5 A P R I L 2 4 Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-program laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
2. O F C O M P U T I N G ? T H E F U T U R E Novel systems to compute on… …why?
3. O U R T E C H N O L O G I C A L D E V E L O P M E N T R E L E N T L E S S M I N I A T U R I Z A T I O N P O W E R S E N I A C - 1 9 4 6
4. O U R T E C H N O L O G I C A L D E V E L O P M E N T R E L E N T L E S S M I N I A T U R I Z A T I O N P O W E R S A P P L E I I C - 1 9 8 4 S O N Y VA I O - 1 9 9 7
5. O U R T E C H N O L O G I C A L D E V E L O P M E N T R E L E N T L E S S M I N I A T U R I Z A T I O N P O W E R S G O O G L E G L A S S - 2 0 1 3 I P H O N E - 2 0 0 7
6. T H E E N D O F M I N I A T U R I Z A T I O N : M O O R E ’ S L A W E V E RY 1 8 M O N T H S , T W I C E A S M A N Y T R A N S I S T O R S A R E P U T O N E A C H I N T E G R AT E D C I R C U I T.
7. T H E E N D O F M I N I A T U R I Z A T I O N : M O O R E ’ S L A W Typical feature size of IC = ~10 nm (a hundred atoms) ! Quantum-mechanical effects become important. ! GAME OVER? 20 um - hair 4 um - yeast 1 um - bacteria
8. B E Y O N D M O O R E C O M P U T I N G : P U T T I N G Q U A N T U M T O W O R K End of Moore’s Law Embrace quantum mechanics
9. B E Y O N D M O O R E C O M P U T I N G : P U T T I N G Q U A N T U M T O W O R K Quantum computers require rethinking architecture, design, and manufacture of computers. Good questions for engineers….
10. B E Y O N D M O O R E C O M P U T I N G : P U T T I N G Q U A N T U M T O W O R K Quantum computers can speed up solving some problems, but (probably) not all. Searching a List Factoring Numbers Planning a road trip Good questions for computer scientists….
11. B E Y O N D M O O R E C O M P U T I N G : P U T T I N G Q U A N T U M T O W O R K The difficulty of simulating systems might tell us something about nature. Good questions for physicists….
12. O F C O M P U T I N G ? T H E F U T U R E End of Moore’s Law Embrace quantum mechanics A new way of computing
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