Kurs ist verfügbar

clean-IT: Towards Sustainable Digital Technologies

Angeboten von clean-IT Initiative

Dieses Video gehört zum openHPI-Kurs clean-IT: Towards Sustainable Digital Technologies. Möchten Sie mehr sehen?

Prof. Christian Plessl (Paderborn University) - Approximate Computing: A Paradigm for Energy Efficient Computations

Zeitaufwand: etwa 48 Minuten

Beim Laden des Videoplayers ist ein Fehler aufgetreten, oder es dauert lange, bis er initialisiert wird. Sie können versuchen, Ihren Browser-Cache zu leeren. Bitte versuchen Sie es später noch einmal und wenden Sie sich an den Helpdesk, wenn das Problem weiterhin besteht.

Über dieses Video


Read a blog-post version of this openXchange live talk here on Medium!

How can we sacrifice correctness, reliability, and precision of an algorithm to increase its efficiency, while still producing useful results? Approximate computing takes a different view of the role and effect of approximations in computations. Instead of considering approximations as a necessary evil of digital computers, one tries to allow application-specific admissible approximations in order to reap significant improvements in energy efficiency. A cross-layer view of applications, numerical methods and computer architecture opens up new perspectives and research questions.

Christian Plessl is professor (W3) for High-Performance Computing at the department of Computer Science at Paderborn University. He is also managing director of the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing (PC²), which is a central scientific institute of Paderborn University and a National High-Performance Computing center in the NHR alliance. In the last years, he has been dealing with different aspects and application fields of Approximate Computing.