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Digitalization quickly accelerates energy consumption and is projected to stand for more than one-fifth of global electricity demand by 2030. This makes "performance per watt" critical. ZeroPoint technology for microchips delivers up to 50% more performance per watt by removing unnecessary information.

The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center has released a dataset containing more than a million jobs run on its TX-GAIA supercomputer, with the goal of using this data to feed AI research into optimizing data center resources. The team has kicked off the MIT Datacenter Challenge to mobilize this research.

DepGraph Supernode, started as a training project at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, was nearly twice as fast as nearest competitor. Secrecy of Chinese authorities regarding their large computers makes it difficult to accurately rank supercomputers from around the world, according to experts.

A small computer developed by Chinese students outperformed Japan’s most powerful machine in solving a major complex data problem related to artificial intelligence, according to the latest global ranking. Supercomputer Fugaku in Japan has nearly 4 million CPU cores, making it the second-largest computer ever built. DepGraph Supernode, which was started as a “training project” by graduate students at Huazhong...

Phase Change Materials (PCMs) have been used as passive coolers to boost processor performance while maintaining safe temperatures. This article presents a technique that increases the benefits of PCM by monitoring the PCM state and using this information to utilize PCM more efficiently.

2/3/2021 Illinois ECE CSL Professor Nam Sung Kim has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the worlds largest educational and scientific computing society. He is honored "for contribution to design and modeling of power-efficient computer architectures."   According to the ACM, “the Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of ACM Members for their outstanding accomplishments in computing and information technology and/or outstanding service to ACM and the larg...