La hoja de ruta de la ingeniería de computadores al final de la ley de Moore y el escalado de Dennard

  1. Julio Ortega 1
  2. Mancia Anguita 1
  3. Alberto Prieto 1
  4. Antonio Cañas 1
  5. Miguel Damas 1
  6. Antonio F. Díaz 1
  7. Javier Fernández 1
  8. Jesús González 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

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Journal:
Enseñanza y aprendizaje de ingeniería de computadores: Revista de Experiencias Docentes en Ingeniería de Computadores

ISSN: 2173-8688

Year of publication: 2019

Issue: 9

Pages: 5-28

Type: Article

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Abstract

This paper reviews the state of Computer Engineering at the beginning of the 2020s in order to outline some of the changes that should be established in higher education in this discipline. It is considered the great relevance of controlling energy consumption and applications related to classification and optimization that require huge amounts of data (big data) and response times difficult to achieve using traditional techniques of computer engineering, and given the reduction of the improvement rate set by Moore's law and the end of Dennard scaling. The article also provides recent bibliographical references on the situation of Computer Engineering, and identifies the new requirements of the interfaces present in the hierarchy of layers of computer systems, mainly those related to security, energy consumption, and the use of heterogeneous parallelism. It also reflects on the theoretical limits that can be established for computation and the expectations that quantum computation offers.

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