Impressions of @Scale 2018 conference – Becoming Human: Artificial Intelligence Magazine

The day started with 3 keynotes. David Patterson received a Turing Award in 2017 for his contribution in design and evaluation of computer architectures. In the talk he speaks about the end of Moore's law and it's impact on the industry. Given that hardware alone is not providing that much speed up anymore David Patterson sees a potential solution in creating Domain-Specific Architectures (DSA) and using Domain-Specific Languages (DSL) as a way to get high performance computation. As an example, he showed matrix multiplication in Python which can be speed up about 63000 times(!) if written in C and takes advantage of memory optimizations and vectorized instructions.