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John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · 149.7K views · 2018-06-05 · 1:19:38

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Overview

Hennessy and Patterson's 2018 Turing Award lecture at ISCA, A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture. It covers domain-specific hardware, security, open instruction sets and agile chip development.

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HN repeatedly recommends it as the best overview of the past, present and future of chip performance after Moore's law.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

Topics

Computer architecture & CPUs
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What people said

trimbo · 2020-08 · Strong recommendation

I consistently recommend Hennessy and Patterson's Turing Award Talk[1] as a good overview of the past, present and future of chip performance. [1] - This will take you directly to the meat of the discussion: [VIDEO]

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rudedogg · 2020-07 · Recommendation

When you posted about joining Oxide I couldn't quite figure out what they (now you) do by looking at the homepage. I stumbled across this other lecture ( [VIDEO] ) that is along the same line of thinking, and it started to make sense.

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trimbo · 2019-05 · Recommendation

I recommend watching the Turing Award speech by Patterson and Hennessey which covers this topic. Spoiler: the way out is "Domain Specific Architectures". [VIDEO]

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