1. Advanced Computing Solutions
July 2017
John Watson

2. It’s Not All Fun & Games…
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3. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our
If You Believe…
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one.
Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our
limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
— Sir William Cecil Dampier Recent Development of Physical Science (1904), 10
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4. Then, We Can Use Your Help
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5. Computing Today CLOUD DRAM CPU FPGA GPU 1966 1971 1984 1993
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6. Machine Learning Changes Everything
“Just as electricity 100 years ago transformed industry after industry after industry, I think AI powered by deep learning will now do the same.”
Andrew Ng - Stanford Professor - Chief Scientist of Baidu
“A breakthrough in machine learning could be worth 10 Microsoft’s.”
Bill Gates - Microsoft Board Advisor
“Machine learning is the next Internet.”
Tony Tether - Director, DARPA
“In software development terms, AI is becoming a third ‘run time’ – the next platform… the system on top of which programmers build and execute applications.”
Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft
“Machine learning is the next layer of programming that sits on top of the platforms… ML will serve as the basis for the biggest companies within five years.”
Eric Schmidt - Chairman of Alphabet
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7. … ? Computing Tomorrow CLOUD MIST Mainframe Computer Era Burroughs NCR
Sperry
Univac
Honeywell …
CLOUD
MIST ?
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8. What Will Computing Look Like
What compute structure/s
What memory architectures
What memory subsystems
What application tools?
What networks? …
MIST
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9. Modular Research “Starter Kit”
AC-Series HMC Module EX-Series Backplane
HPC Desktop System
Software Framework
Software drivers, FPGA loading over PCIe, DMA engines, HMC controllers, hardware drivers, streaming models, multiple-FPGA partitioning, activity monitors, reference designs, test suites, etc.
Systems easily upgradable to all future Micron technology

10. 2017 Information Technical Papers
Packet Matching on FPGAs Using HMC Memory; Towards 1M Rules
Daniel Rozhko, Dr. Paul Chow; Univ of Toronto
Boosting the Performance of FPGA-based Graph Processor using HMC; A Case for Breadth First Search
Jialiang Zhang, Dr. Jing Li; UW-Madison
Genomic Data Clustering on FPGAs for Compression
Enrico Petraglio, Rick Wertenbroek, Flavio Capitao, Nicolas Guex, Christian Iseli and Yann Thoma; HEIG-VD
Mapping Programmable Network Packet Pipelines to HMC-Enabled FPGAs
Dr. Peter Athanas; Virginia Polytechnic
K-mer Counting Using Blook Filters with an FPGA-Attached HMC
Nathaniel McVicar, Chih-Ching Lin and Scott Hauck; University of Washington
FPL ‘17 Workshop (Sept 4-8; Ghent Belgium)
SC ‘17 Workshops (Nov 12-17; Denver CO)
Birds of a Feather on memory-centric data centers & on memory systems for AI/ML/DL
So in the kernel code there are some concepts.
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11. …But, Really, It Is
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