Accelerator-Level Parallelism

While past information technology (IT) advances have transformed society, future advances hold great additional promise. For example, we have only just begun to reap the changes from artificial intelligence--especially machine learning--with profound advances expected in medicine, science, education, commerce, and government. All too often forgotten, underlying the IT impact are the dramatic improvements in the programmable hardware. Hardware improvements deliver performance that unlocks new capabilities. However, unlike in the 1990s and early 2000s, tomorrow's performance aspirations must be achieved with much less technological advancement (Moore's Law and Den-nard Scaling).