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Computing News
02 26 12
Personal Computing
• Super iPad
• Virtual reality contact lens
• 30% saving in laptop power consumption
• 3D camera for cell phones
• 55 inch OLED TV
• 3D TV without glasses
• First netbooks, then tablets, now ultrabooks
• NVIDIA Tegra 2 (soon 3) smartphones
F-Bomb throwaway hacking
• Cheap surveillance computer package
• Dropped from planes or drones
Societal Impactors
• $10M Medical Tricordor XPRIZE
• Voice understanding
• Supercomputing on demand from the Cloud
• Helping the poor via technology– Medical
– Education
– Knowledge
– Market access
– computation
Printable high-performance electronics
Swarming formations of quadcopters
Exascale computing
• How fast is exasclace?– Global data storage is aroung 300 exabytes (2007)
– So processing of entire global data store in 5 minutes?
• GPU based exascale computing
• The problem of software for 100 – 1000 cores
• Europe funds exascale research at higher level than US
nVIDIA Echelon architecture