Transcript Anasim Presentation to NanoEquity 2008

Software,
Nano-Hardware
& Energy
Raj Nair, AnaSIM Corp.
NanoEquity Asia 2008, May 28, 2008
Redefining Software
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Intellectual Property (IP) is WARE:
Usually, wares. (from DICTIONARY.COM)
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IP is SOFT
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articles of merchandise or manufacture; goods
any intangible items, as services or products of artistic or
intellectual creativity, that are salable
IP is ware, and it is 'soft', in the form of ideas,
concepts, specifications, processes, methods and
descriptions of inventions.
Software is not just code, it is IP, Services, …!
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Manifestation of Intelligence
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CODE
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Software narrowly construed to imply code and
applications
But code defines everything!
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Very similar and simple genetic codes define all
animate life and determine evolutionary pathways
Codified language, conduct, material pursuits and
laws define societies and science
Code controls all manners of machines & systems
Software blurs the distinction between the animate
and inanimate… a manifestation of Intelligence
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Turing Test
(Wikipedia)
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Evolution
Hardware to Software!
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The Future is Software
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Man-Machine interfaces
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Knowledge Management
Applications & Automation
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Business Processes, Industry
Services
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Operating systems
SAAS (Service, by our definition, is Soft-ware)
Learning & Adaptation
Artificial Intelligence
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Future’s Closer than we Think
Honda® ASIMO
The hardware’s great, but it is software that
gives personality, drives utility…
Robotics and AI offer unlimited opportunities.
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Why is it Software?
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iPhone™
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Mobiles
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Apple®'s iPhone has shown that great software on
a robust, but not necessarily high-end hardware
system is what differentiates a product
Cell phone business shows generally that good
service, not the underlying hardware, is the
differentiator.
Is the combination a winner?
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SAAS? (A recent buzzword…)
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Picture courtesy: Apple®
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SAAS
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Multi-tenant architecture, single code base… one
size fits all?
Most suited for low-complexity, enterprise
applications such as CRM and HR
Predictions point to 25% of business software
spending by 2011
SAAS is an alternative to capital-intensive
captive deployment
Interesting to vendors too as a more resourceefficient model
References: Gartner, Web articles
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Good / Questionable Software
Blurry objects behind…?
Mouse click can close occluded window!
“Work expands to fill available capacity” Murphy’s Law
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The Tor of Cism
Tor of Cism (miCrosofT)
Map of Internet Growth, © 2007 Tim Berners-Lee
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Browsers: Search Facilitation
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Netscape® peaked market attention in ’95
IE appeared on the scene, tied to a near
monopoly OS… killing Netscape.
Open source brought about Firefox… generates
revenue through default Google® Search Box
On-track to 30% market share
Firefox 3 (June ‘08) is evolved, fast, lean (mem.
use), integrates “my finds” search
Which browser is more energy efficient?
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Browsers are one of the most used software applications…
Reference: Rory Cellan-Jones’s BBC blog dated 8 May 2008
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Flexible & Inflexible Intelligence
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Hardware processes information in a fixed,
inflexible fashion
Software allows intelligence to be flexible
Examples abound:
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Software defined Radio (a hardware bastion!)
Reconfigurable logic computing (also a hardware stronghold)
Operational mode shifts from performance to energy savings
through software at all levels…
Hardware moving to interconnected arrays of
efficient nano computing elements…
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Multi-core processors are just a start!
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Energy Management
Pic: Portelligent.com
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Software energy/function optimization and control
Nanoelectronics needs/uses this in all partitions of chips!
Battery technologies are improving…
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Silver-Zinc, Fuel-Cell systems have ~3X or more energy density
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Energy Efficient Software
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Algorithmic efficiency
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Functional efficiency
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Get the task done with least-energy-cost system resource
usage and shortest usage times possible
System Resource Management
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Exponential, Linear and Logarithmic complexity
Abstraction and Symmetry greatly improve efficiency*
“Analog” control of resources; Ramp up/down permitted by
hardware and managed by software
Data Management
Context Recognition
Reference * Information Theory and Entropy studies (Kolmogorov, Lin’s and Shannon’s laws of information theory etc.)
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Resource & Data Management
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Data movement
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Computation
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Specialized hardware/cores - matrix manipulations with
Matrix Processors…
Resource Management
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Reduce frequency and amount of data movement
Minimize DISK accesses, buffer data and spin disks down1
Use all available energy states1
Ramp down unused modules
DVD Playback
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Stopped optical drive=70% E1
Reference 1: Intel® Software & Solutions Group 2007 study
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Nanoelectronics Vectors
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Nanoscale CMOS not ‘energy efficient’
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Software MUST implement
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Scalable, low-cost integration technology, but…
At a definite “WALL”, Power, POWER INTEGRITY
As much (or more) energy is wasted in leakage as is spent in
useful work! Estimates are another decade of scaling…
Algorithmic efficiency, Functional efficiency and Resource
Management at all levels of system hardware
Needs to be leaner in computational and memory complexity
Parallelism is Key
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For multi-core processors, must parallelize compilers, code!
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Other Interesting Vectors
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Century for “Intellectual Estate”
transactions
IP (Soft-ware, by our def.) is the next gold rush…
 Nanotechnology is very broad, and applications are
almost innumerable…
 IP Creation, Protection
 Development & Defense
 IP Aggregation?
 IP Clearing, Brokering?
 Opportunity for eminent Tech.+Mktg.+Legal teams
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Connecting Communities
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Social & Professional
networking
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Ning® etc. facilitate…
Google® is on it too
Open-Source software
communities around
for ages
Leveraging benefits of
open-source is a cost
and TTM minimizer…
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Verizon® backs LiMo
Credit: Google®
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Artificial Intelligence
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Memristor, missing link?
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Neural nets possible
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Remembers charge conveyed
Time and energy-efficient
solutions for NP-Completes
AI using such hardware
and software could begin
to approach biological
energy efficiencies…
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Credit: Hewlett Packard® Labs
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Summary
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Software will take its place as a true
manifestation of intelligence
Focusing upon energy and cost efficiency,
software development will emulate natural
processes
Leading to accelerated evolution in
machines aiding life
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Backup
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