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SUMMARY:Using Cellphone Technology to Build AI Servers
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DESCRIPTION:Peter Hsu\, Technical Consultant\nIt is said artificial intell
 igence is going to change the way we live\, work and play in 2018.  Certa
 inly the market for AI technology is growing rapidly.  Some of us believe
  excessive energy consumption is holding back even more revolutionary adva
 nces in AI software.  This talk begins by looking at how energy is consum
 ed in the IBM AC922 server\, marketed for enterprise AI computing and used
  in the world’s fastest supercomputer\, US DOE Summit.  The AC922 is a 
 CPU+GPU data-streaming architecture.  This talk proposes a near-data proc
 essing architecture using low-power consumer cellphone technology. By comb
 ining several architecture and 3D SoC/DRAM chip layout/packaging co-design
  ideas\, I suggest may be possible to improve energy efficiency by an orde
 r of magnitude within one process generation.  This talk presents work-in
 -progress I hope to continue during my visit to EPFL University.\n \nBio:
   Peter Hsu was born in Hong Kong and moved to the United States as a tee
 nager. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota at Minne
 apolis in 1979\, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Ill
 inois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983 and 1985\, respectively\, all in Compute
 r Science. His first job was at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 1985
 -1987\, working on code generation techniques for superscalar and out-of-o
 rder processors with the 801 compiler team. He then joined one of his form
 er professor at Cydrome\, which developed an innovative VLIW computer. In 
 1988 he moved to Sun Microsystems and tried to build a water-cooled galliu
 m arsenide SPARC processor\, but the technology was not sufficiently matur
 e and the effort failed. He joined Silicon Graphics in 1990 and designed t
 he MIPS R8000 TFP microprocessor. The R8000 was released in 1994 and shipp
 ed in the SGI Power Challenge servers and Power Indigo workstations. Fifty
  of the TOP500.org list of supercomputer systems used R8000 chips in 1994.
  Peter became a Director of Engineering at SGI\, then left in 1997 to co-f
 ound his own startup\, ArtX\, best known for designing the Nintendo GameCu
 be. ArtX was acquired by ATI Technologies in 2000. He left ArtX in 1999 an
 d worked briefly at Toshiba America\, where he developed advanced place-an
 d-route methodologies for high frequency microprocessor cores in SoC desig
 ns\, then became a visiting Industrial Researcher at the University of Wis
 consin at Madison in 2001. Throughout the 2000’s he consulted for variou
 s startups\, attended the Art Academy University and the California Colleg
 e of the Arts in San Francisco where he learned to paint oil portraits\, a
 ttended a Paul Mitchell school where he learned to cut and color hair. In 
 the late 2000’s he consulted for Sun Labs\, which lead to discussions ab
 out the RAPID research project\, a power-efficient massively parallel comp
 uter for accelerating big data analytics in the Oracle database. He was wi
 th Oracle Labs as an Architect from 2011 to 2016.  In 2017 Dr. Hsu founde
 d CAVA Computers\, Inc. in an unsuccessful attempt to bring hyper-converge
 d storage with integrated compute to market.\n 
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