HiPEAC Vision 2021
Résumé
Our world is evolving very rapidly, both
from the technological point of view – with
impressive advances in artificial intelligence
and new hardware challenging longstanding PC hardware traditions, for example –
and as a result of unexpected events. The
year 2020 was quite exceptional, an annus
horribilis, according to some. It is hard to
disagree with this statement, but every dark
cloud has a silver lining. 2020 was also the
year that accelerated digital transformation
beyond what could have been imagined
in 2019. Vaccine development happened
faster than would ever have been conceivable a year ago, digital payment became the
norm for many people and e-commerce
and online sales threatened brick and
mortar shops. Employees were encouraged
to work from home – with its advantages
and disadvantages, videoconferencing
became the de facto way to interact with
both family and colleagues, schools were
forced to experiment with distance learning. The list goes on. After living for over
a year in an online world, most people will
not return completely to the “old normal”.
They will go for a combination of the “old
normal” and things they discovered and
experimented with in the circumstances
forced upon us by COVID-19; they might
keep their home office on some days, and
be in the workplace on other days. Higher
education will certainly also continue to
offer online teaching.
The rapidly evolving digital world has
also had an impact on the HiPEAC Vision:
updating it every two years no longer
seems quite in keeping with the speed of
the evolution of computing systems. Therefore, we decided to move from producing
a large roadmap document every other
year, to an agile, rapidly evolving electronic
magazine-like set of articles. The HiPEAC
Vision 2021 has two main parts:
1) A set of recommendations for the
HiPEAC community. It will also introduce the second part of the Vision and
will be updated periodically, or on
particular occasions.
2) A set of “articles”, like in magazines, that
will be regularly updated, the purpose
of which is to support the set of recommendations, or to introduce new topics
or situations. This will guarantee that
the HiPEAC Vision keeps evolving and
remains up to date. These articles are
intended to be self-sufficient and can be
read independently. They are grouped
into four themes or dimensions: technical, business, societal and European. New
articles will be added over the course of
the years (and outdated ones might be
removed). A further element of this new
approach to the Vision is that the editorial board asked and will ask various
authors to contribute to those articles.
"is adds heterogeneity and a diversity
of point of view that could be helpful for
better analysis of the computing systems
landscape as well as improve the quality
of the recommendations.
Domaines
Informatique [cs]
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