![]() “We’re building a unified hardware that can bridge the gap between computation and storage.” “There’s a huge bottleneck when classical computers need to move data between memory and processor,” says Li. ![]() The high-speed number-crunching of processors and the data warehousing of big storage memory in modern computers usually fall to two entirely different types of hardware. We want to target a lot of very interesting and data-intensive applications, including facial or voice recognition, natural language processing, and graph analytics.” ![]() “You can have a supercomputer in a box if you want. It is a collaborative software/hardware technique,” says Li. “Liquid means software and silicon means hardware. Jing Li, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison, is creating computer chips that can be configured to perform complex calculations and store massive amounts of information within the same integrated unit - and communicate efficiently with other chips. Stephanie Precourt/UW–Madison College of EngineeringĬomputer chips in development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison could make future computers more efficient and powerful by combining tasks usually kept separate by design. Software written by Jing Li, right, and her students - including Jialiang Zhang, left -allows programmers to directly use existing coding languages with the new Liquid Silicon chips.
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