Speaking at the DAC 2016 Tuesday session on heterogeneous architectures, Professor Jason Cong of UCLA and cofounder of Falcon Computing Solutions, said: “Data center energy consumption is a very big deal. We are looking at having to build 50 additional large power plants by 2020 to support them.”
One of the problems in data-center computer design is, Cong claimed, “a pretty big mismatch between workloads in data centers and processor design”.
“The work we have been doing has been catching on. Microsoft, for example, has deployed a lot of FPGAs and their use now goes way beyond search,” Cong claimed.
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