文档介绍：How to Get Into Graduate School in the USA: A Lecture and Workshop Bill Thies and Manish Bhardwaj ******@
Department of Electrical Engineering puter Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Birla Institute of Technology, Patna
October 21, 2008
Acknowledgments
Phil Agre, UCLA Advice for Undergraduates Considering Graduate School -
William B. Thompson, University of Utah Applying to Graduate School puter Science /~thompson/
Autonomous Vehicle Navigation
pliments of the MIT DARPA Grand Challenge Team, /
puters
Air conditioner
Continuous streams of data
- Laser range finders, camera arrays,
inertial measurement units, GPS, …
Demands real-time algorithms
- Feature detection & tracking, depth inference, mission planning, …
The Multicore Revolution
1985
1990
1980
1970
1975
1995
2000
4004
8008
8086
8080
286
386
486
Pentium
P2
P3
P4
Itanium
Itanium 2
2005
Raw
Power4
Opteron
Power6
Niagara
Yonah
PExtreme
Tanglewood
Cell
Intel
Tflops
Xbox360
Cavium
Octeon
Raza
XLR
PA-8800
Cisco
CSR-1
Picochip
PC102
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# of
cores
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
Opteron 4P
Xeon MP
Athlon
Ambric
AM2045
Tilera
The Multicore Revolution
1985
1990
1980
1970
1975
1995
2000
4004
8008
8086
8080
286
386
486
Pentium
P2
P3
P4
Itanium
Itanium 2
2005
Raw
Power4
Opteron
Power6
Niagara
Yonah
PExtreme
Tanglewood
Cell
Intel
Tflops
Xbox360
Cavium
Octeon
Raza
XLR
PA-8800
Cisco
CSR-1
Picochip
PC102
1480
20??
# of
cores
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
Opteron 4P
Xeon MP
Athlon
Ambric
AM2045
Tilera
Hardware was responsible for
improving performance
The Multicore Revolution
1985
1990
1980
1970
1975
1995
2000
4004
8008
8086
8080
286
386
486
Pentium
P2
P3
P4
Itanium
Itanium 2
2005
Raw
Power4
Opteron
Power6
Niagara
Yonah
PExtreme
Tanglewood