Yet for almost two decades, architecture research has focused on desktop or server machines. Thus the field is designing processors of the future with a heavy bias toward the past. To design successful processor architectures for the future, we first need to explore future applications and match their requirements in a scalable, cost-effective way. The talk next moves to the machines that provide the services to gadgets. Each brick is the size of a standard disk enclosure, and so the 80-node server under construction takes much less space than a cluster of PCs.
Teaching is more than information transfer.
It is also encouragement to take the next step, mentoring, and acting by example.