System Performance: From Enterprise to AI
Aatish Kumar, L. Chang, Gustavo E. Tellez, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Jeffrey L. Burns · 2018
System performance has shown many decades of continuous improvement. After first reviewing historical trends and the current outlook, in this paper we discuss the challenges and opportunities in future computing systems due to the disruptive confluence of stalled scaling and emerging AI workloads. Heterogeneous integration is highlighted as a key means to future systems performance growth.