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Ternary Computing for a
Human-Cyber-Physical Universe
Zhiwei Xu
Institute of Computing Technology
www.ict.ac.cn
zxu@ict.ac.cn
INSTITUTE OF
COMPUTING
TECHNOLOGY
NSF Workshop
2011.9.19-20
The FIT Initiative of
Chinese Academy of Sciences
• One of the seven Frontier Research Projects
• Bio, Space, Earth, Climate, Fission, Coal, IT
– Future Information Technology utilizing human-cyber-
physical resources (ternary computing)
• A 10-year basic research project
– Targeting applications and markets of 2020-2030
– Addressing China’s needs in 2020-2050
• Main components:
– functional sensing
– customizable internet
– cloud-sea computing
– science of information ecosystems
China’s Needs (2020-2050)
• Change into sustainable development with the four
simultaneous, historical constrains of
– globalization, industrialization, urbanization, informatization,
• Need computing for the masses, ternary computing
Z. Xu and G. Li, Computing for the masses, Communications of ACM, October
2011,vol. 54, no. 10, pp.133-141.
GDP% 1st 2nd 3rd
1993 19.5 46.6 33.9
2010 10.2 46.8 43.0
2050 5.8 42.5 51.7
The industry sector will dominate
the national economy for decades
The urbanization
rate will increase
from
49.7% in 2010
to
80.0% in 2050
The IT market will
increase
from
$0.15T, 400M users
in 2010
to
$2T, 1.2B users
in 2050
Example: Industrialization
• >200 million migrate workers in China
• 2010 China furniture industry: $140B
• Manufacturing equipment: 50% cost of is IT
– Needs smart equipment: current 3%  40%
• Expertise-enabled Computer Numeric Control (E2
CNC)
– Expertise: domain knowledge, professional experience, know-how
Polish Machine
Smart curve saw:
25 meters/minute
0.1  0.05 mm
saved 6 KW power
Example: Urbanization
• >200 million households in urban China, >4 million added every year
– Need IT to help popularize a sustainable life style
• Electricity consumption by Beijing households in 2008:
– 11.63 billion KWH, 16.7% of the total electricity consumption
– Per-household KWH: 15000 (high), 1200 (low), 600 (green), 1320 (policy)
• China’s CO2 emission (tons) in 2008:
– 5.96 billion (total), 4.5 (per capita), 2.7 (household), 0.96 (green household)
• Grid search and behavior optimization
Timely acquire massive and accurate field data from
100s millions households, for each appliance (lamp,
refrigerator, etc.) in every household.
with one sensor per home
Electricity Computing: let the physical world do the job
Example: Informatization
• 485 million netizens in China now (CNNIC, 2011.7)
• An Internet C2C service (Taobao, cf. eBay)
– 2010: >200M users (80M UV), >2.5M vendors (>50% women), 2B items
– $59B GMV (2.5% of $2.35T), 10M items delivered/day, ~$16/item
– 2014 (estimation): $300B GMV, 32B items (merchandise & services)
• Increase delivered value (or value/item) at low cost
– Human-aided big data mining & analytics (20PB  200PB)
– Big data augmented C2B
– Better platforms: 1 week  3 months data; response 2.6  1.1s
Historic Data and Projections
IT Market
($ Trillion)
IT Market
CAGR
IT Users
(Million)
IT Spending
per Capita
2000 (Actual Data) 0.026 25.0% 22.5 $21
2008 (Actual Data) 0.11 12.7% 270 $85
2050 (Poverty Line Growth) 0.25 2.0% 1,200 $190
2050 (Value-Augmenting Growth) 2.0 7.1% 1,200 $1,321
Alexa
Top Sites
1. Google
2. Facebook
3. YouTube
4. Yahoo!
5. Baidu
6. Wikipedia
7. Blogger
8. Windows Live
9. Twitter
10. QQ
16. Taobao
17. Sina
21. eBay
1960-2000 vs. 2010-2050

Algorithmic
Science
New
Information
Science
• Man-machine symbiosis  Ternary Universe (The Net)
• The scope and objects of computer science are changing
– Cyber Computing  Ternary Computing
– Turing algorithmic science  algorithm Net science
– Moore’s law  Network Effects
Example of Utilizing Ternary Resources
Human Society Cyber world
Physical World
Bill
Human meter reading
15 bytes/month
electrical appliances
physical behavior of
using electricity
15 GB/month
200 million families’
Electricity
consumption
behavior
( habits, economic
incentives, social
relationship )

Automatically sense human society and physical world

Search optimal behavior of electricity consumption

Promote best practices of energy consumption
Energy Saving:
In 2009, an average household in China consumed 1044 KWH
But a green households in Beijing only consumed 600 KWH
By 2030, household electricity consumption could be reduced by
30% through sensing and promoting green practices
Upgrading Household Appliances:
New energy-saving appliances as data-intensive as
Rolls-Royce aircraft engines
• Professional challenges
– The DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
requires integrating Human-Cyber
resources
• Major research initiatives
– EU FET Flagships proposals (e.g.,
FuturICT) involve ternary integration
• Specific research results
– ReCAPTCHA utilizes Human-Cyber
resources
– SignalGuru utilizes Human-Cyber-
Physical resources
Ternary Computing Research Is Starting
Connectivity and Integration of
People, Machines, Things
Connectivity
Seamless
Connected
Disjoint
None Digital Information Functional (behavior, cognition)
Integration
Level
Red Balloon
SignalGuru
ReCAPTCHA
Grid Search
FIT Scope
Traditional
Turing
Computing
Capability Upgrade through FIT Innovations
Information
Technology
Material Device Equipment System
Acquisition
Transmission
Processing
Application
Informationization
Capability
Informationization
Physical parameter sensing
Best-effort packet switched networks
Cloud computing handling PB scale (1015
bytes) of data
Internets of Things, Media, Services
(100s million users, billion hosts)
Function sensing of physical world and human society
Evolvable internet with end-to-end quality assurance
Sea-cloud computing handling ZB scale (1021
bytes) of data
Pervasive intelligent services with Human-Cyber-Physical
integration (billions of users, trillions of devices)
FIT
Innovations
Addressing
constraints of
power and
security
Speed, power, software complexity trends
the Three 100-million issues
2020
Exaflops (1018
)
Datacenter for
100’s M (108
) users
100 M (108
) LOC
100 M (108
) W
Needs:
Maintain growth in
performance, but
control power &
system software
complexity
World Top1 computer speed (Flops)
ICT computer speed (Flops)
ICT computer system software (LOC)
ICT computer power (W)
Functional Sensing
• Compressive Sensing
• Eliminating redundant data in the data acquisition phase (A-to-D  A-to-I)
• Functional Sensing
– From sensing physical parameters, sensing information, to sensing behavior
• Function: formalized cognition or behavior
– Learn from biological perception networks
• Goal: further reduce sensed data amount by 1~2 orders of magnitude
Functional
Sensing
Cognition
information
Behavior
Information reduction
Customizable Internet
• Main features
– Extend endpoints to physical devices and people
– Programmability, isolation (slices), high performance
– Behavior cognition and cross-layer optimization
• 2010-2015:
– Enable research (host-oriented, content-centric, etc.)
– basic research and testbed experiments
PEARL routers in one physical network
PEARL routers in one physical network
Each PEARL routers provides 4 Gbps ports and customizable data/ctrl planes,
Each PEARL routers provides 4 Gbps ports and customizable data/ctrl planes,
and support 128 virtual routers
and support 128 virtual routers
IPv4
IPv4
IPv6
IPv6
Non-IP
Non-IP
G. Xie et al, “PEARL: A Programmable Virtual Router
Platform”, IEEE Communication, July 2011
Cloud-Sea Computing
• Sea Computing
– A new computing model
– hierarchically self-organizing
resources of front-end nodes
– to generate local intelligence
– to perform 90% sensing data
processing
– There will be many sea terminals
• Sea-Cloud Computing
– Cooperatively divide and schedule
computing tasks at the sea side and
the cloud side
– Big data processing and massive
serving are carried out in the cloud
• Optimize performance/energy ratio
Ecosystems Science
User Experience
Service
Application
Middleware
System Software
Machines
Components
1955-1980
Vertical
1980-2005
Horizontal
2005-2030
End-to-end ecosystems
IBM DEC ……
EDS, Andersen, …
MS Office, SAP, …
Oracle, BEA, …
Windows, Unix, …
HP, Cisco, Dell, …
Intel, Seagate, …
IBM, Accenture, …
MS Office, SAP, …
Oracle, BEA, LAMP, …
Android, Windows, Linux…
HP, Cisco, Lenovo, …
Intel, ARM, Seagate, …
Apple
Facebook
Google
Tencent
Smart grid, public safety, intelligent traffic systems, etc.
Value in productivity, sustainability, welfare and well-being
Functional sensing, customizable internet, sea-cloud computing
systems
FIT architecture, ternary computing models, security and privacy
Phenomena, metrics, laws, abstractions, mechanisms
Time/space complexity
Energy complexity; effort complexity, sensor complexity
Physical Information Media Information Social Information
Applications (IIS)
Systems (CNS)
Foundation (CCF)
Open Problems
• What are the new workloads?
– “real” workloads open to academic community
• What should be the new metrics?
– Beyond Linpack and flop/s
– Can we calculate energy complexity for each application?
• What is a good stack?
– What new properties? How to evaluate a stack?
• How to deal with the “Classis Insecta Paradox”?
– Current IT: mammals (5000 species)
– Future IT: insects (5 million species)
New Systems
Architectures
• Need computing systems enabling
– personalization, specialty,
and large volume
• Learn from IBM 360 in 1964
– Computer family and computer architecture
• To deal with the “Classis Insecta Paradox”,
we propose
– Computer tribe
– Elastic processor
Q. Guo, T. Chen, Y. Chen, Z. Zhou, W Hu, Z.
Xu, Effective and Efficient Microprocessor
Design Space Exploration Using Unlabeled
Design Configurations, IJCAI 2011.
Current chip design solutions
• Has user definable microarchitecture that can be changed
dynamically to adapt to applications’ requirements
• 2 orders of magnitude improvement in power efficiency
ASIC
Hardwired
solution
GPP
Software
solution
Elastic Processor
Flexibility
MOPS/mW
FPGA
Field and gate-
level
reconfiguratio
n
Elastic Processor
Many US scientists are
researching similar
issues
NSF Expedition project:
Customizable Domain-
Specific Computing
www.cdsc.ucla.edu
GreenDroid at UCSD
Utilization wall
Conservation cores
IEEE Micro, 3/4 2011
Thank
Thank
you!
you!
zxu@ict.ac.cn

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2011.9 Ternary Computing for a Human-Cyber-Physical Universe.ppt

  • 1. Ternary Computing for a Human-Cyber-Physical Universe Zhiwei Xu Institute of Computing Technology www.ict.ac.cn zxu@ict.ac.cn INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY NSF Workshop 2011.9.19-20
  • 2. The FIT Initiative of Chinese Academy of Sciences • One of the seven Frontier Research Projects • Bio, Space, Earth, Climate, Fission, Coal, IT – Future Information Technology utilizing human-cyber- physical resources (ternary computing) • A 10-year basic research project – Targeting applications and markets of 2020-2030 – Addressing China’s needs in 2020-2050 • Main components: – functional sensing – customizable internet – cloud-sea computing – science of information ecosystems
  • 3. China’s Needs (2020-2050) • Change into sustainable development with the four simultaneous, historical constrains of – globalization, industrialization, urbanization, informatization, • Need computing for the masses, ternary computing Z. Xu and G. Li, Computing for the masses, Communications of ACM, October 2011,vol. 54, no. 10, pp.133-141. GDP% 1st 2nd 3rd 1993 19.5 46.6 33.9 2010 10.2 46.8 43.0 2050 5.8 42.5 51.7 The industry sector will dominate the national economy for decades The urbanization rate will increase from 49.7% in 2010 to 80.0% in 2050 The IT market will increase from $0.15T, 400M users in 2010 to $2T, 1.2B users in 2050
  • 4. Example: Industrialization • >200 million migrate workers in China • 2010 China furniture industry: $140B • Manufacturing equipment: 50% cost of is IT – Needs smart equipment: current 3%  40% • Expertise-enabled Computer Numeric Control (E2 CNC) – Expertise: domain knowledge, professional experience, know-how Polish Machine Smart curve saw: 25 meters/minute 0.1  0.05 mm saved 6 KW power
  • 5. Example: Urbanization • >200 million households in urban China, >4 million added every year – Need IT to help popularize a sustainable life style • Electricity consumption by Beijing households in 2008: – 11.63 billion KWH, 16.7% of the total electricity consumption – Per-household KWH: 15000 (high), 1200 (low), 600 (green), 1320 (policy) • China’s CO2 emission (tons) in 2008: – 5.96 billion (total), 4.5 (per capita), 2.7 (household), 0.96 (green household) • Grid search and behavior optimization Timely acquire massive and accurate field data from 100s millions households, for each appliance (lamp, refrigerator, etc.) in every household. with one sensor per home Electricity Computing: let the physical world do the job
  • 6. Example: Informatization • 485 million netizens in China now (CNNIC, 2011.7) • An Internet C2C service (Taobao, cf. eBay) – 2010: >200M users (80M UV), >2.5M vendors (>50% women), 2B items – $59B GMV (2.5% of $2.35T), 10M items delivered/day, ~$16/item – 2014 (estimation): $300B GMV, 32B items (merchandise & services) • Increase delivered value (or value/item) at low cost – Human-aided big data mining & analytics (20PB  200PB) – Big data augmented C2B – Better platforms: 1 week  3 months data; response 2.6  1.1s Historic Data and Projections IT Market ($ Trillion) IT Market CAGR IT Users (Million) IT Spending per Capita 2000 (Actual Data) 0.026 25.0% 22.5 $21 2008 (Actual Data) 0.11 12.7% 270 $85 2050 (Poverty Line Growth) 0.25 2.0% 1,200 $190 2050 (Value-Augmenting Growth) 2.0 7.1% 1,200 $1,321 Alexa Top Sites 1. Google 2. Facebook 3. YouTube 4. Yahoo! 5. Baidu 6. Wikipedia 7. Blogger 8. Windows Live 9. Twitter 10. QQ 16. Taobao 17. Sina 21. eBay
  • 7. 1960-2000 vs. 2010-2050  Algorithmic Science New Information Science • Man-machine symbiosis  Ternary Universe (The Net) • The scope and objects of computer science are changing – Cyber Computing  Ternary Computing – Turing algorithmic science  algorithm Net science – Moore’s law  Network Effects
  • 8. Example of Utilizing Ternary Resources Human Society Cyber world Physical World Bill Human meter reading 15 bytes/month electrical appliances physical behavior of using electricity 15 GB/month 200 million families’ Electricity consumption behavior ( habits, economic incentives, social relationship )  Automatically sense human society and physical world  Search optimal behavior of electricity consumption  Promote best practices of energy consumption Energy Saving: In 2009, an average household in China consumed 1044 KWH But a green households in Beijing only consumed 600 KWH By 2030, household electricity consumption could be reduced by 30% through sensing and promoting green practices Upgrading Household Appliances: New energy-saving appliances as data-intensive as Rolls-Royce aircraft engines
  • 9. • Professional challenges – The DARPA Red Balloon Challenge requires integrating Human-Cyber resources • Major research initiatives – EU FET Flagships proposals (e.g., FuturICT) involve ternary integration • Specific research results – ReCAPTCHA utilizes Human-Cyber resources – SignalGuru utilizes Human-Cyber- Physical resources Ternary Computing Research Is Starting
  • 10. Connectivity and Integration of People, Machines, Things Connectivity Seamless Connected Disjoint None Digital Information Functional (behavior, cognition) Integration Level Red Balloon SignalGuru ReCAPTCHA Grid Search FIT Scope Traditional Turing Computing
  • 11. Capability Upgrade through FIT Innovations Information Technology Material Device Equipment System Acquisition Transmission Processing Application Informationization Capability Informationization Physical parameter sensing Best-effort packet switched networks Cloud computing handling PB scale (1015 bytes) of data Internets of Things, Media, Services (100s million users, billion hosts) Function sensing of physical world and human society Evolvable internet with end-to-end quality assurance Sea-cloud computing handling ZB scale (1021 bytes) of data Pervasive intelligent services with Human-Cyber-Physical integration (billions of users, trillions of devices) FIT Innovations Addressing constraints of power and security
  • 12. Speed, power, software complexity trends the Three 100-million issues 2020 Exaflops (1018 ) Datacenter for 100’s M (108 ) users 100 M (108 ) LOC 100 M (108 ) W Needs: Maintain growth in performance, but control power & system software complexity World Top1 computer speed (Flops) ICT computer speed (Flops) ICT computer system software (LOC) ICT computer power (W)
  • 13. Functional Sensing • Compressive Sensing • Eliminating redundant data in the data acquisition phase (A-to-D  A-to-I) • Functional Sensing – From sensing physical parameters, sensing information, to sensing behavior • Function: formalized cognition or behavior – Learn from biological perception networks • Goal: further reduce sensed data amount by 1~2 orders of magnitude Functional Sensing Cognition information Behavior Information reduction
  • 14. Customizable Internet • Main features – Extend endpoints to physical devices and people – Programmability, isolation (slices), high performance – Behavior cognition and cross-layer optimization • 2010-2015: – Enable research (host-oriented, content-centric, etc.) – basic research and testbed experiments PEARL routers in one physical network PEARL routers in one physical network Each PEARL routers provides 4 Gbps ports and customizable data/ctrl planes, Each PEARL routers provides 4 Gbps ports and customizable data/ctrl planes, and support 128 virtual routers and support 128 virtual routers IPv4 IPv4 IPv6 IPv6 Non-IP Non-IP G. Xie et al, “PEARL: A Programmable Virtual Router Platform”, IEEE Communication, July 2011
  • 15. Cloud-Sea Computing • Sea Computing – A new computing model – hierarchically self-organizing resources of front-end nodes – to generate local intelligence – to perform 90% sensing data processing – There will be many sea terminals • Sea-Cloud Computing – Cooperatively divide and schedule computing tasks at the sea side and the cloud side – Big data processing and massive serving are carried out in the cloud • Optimize performance/energy ratio
  • 16. Ecosystems Science User Experience Service Application Middleware System Software Machines Components 1955-1980 Vertical 1980-2005 Horizontal 2005-2030 End-to-end ecosystems IBM DEC …… EDS, Andersen, … MS Office, SAP, … Oracle, BEA, … Windows, Unix, … HP, Cisco, Dell, … Intel, Seagate, … IBM, Accenture, … MS Office, SAP, … Oracle, BEA, LAMP, … Android, Windows, Linux… HP, Cisco, Lenovo, … Intel, ARM, Seagate, … Apple Facebook Google Tencent Smart grid, public safety, intelligent traffic systems, etc. Value in productivity, sustainability, welfare and well-being Functional sensing, customizable internet, sea-cloud computing systems FIT architecture, ternary computing models, security and privacy Phenomena, metrics, laws, abstractions, mechanisms Time/space complexity Energy complexity; effort complexity, sensor complexity Physical Information Media Information Social Information Applications (IIS) Systems (CNS) Foundation (CCF)
  • 17. Open Problems • What are the new workloads? – “real” workloads open to academic community • What should be the new metrics? – Beyond Linpack and flop/s – Can we calculate energy complexity for each application? • What is a good stack? – What new properties? How to evaluate a stack? • How to deal with the “Classis Insecta Paradox”? – Current IT: mammals (5000 species) – Future IT: insects (5 million species)
  • 18. New Systems Architectures • Need computing systems enabling – personalization, specialty, and large volume • Learn from IBM 360 in 1964 – Computer family and computer architecture • To deal with the “Classis Insecta Paradox”, we propose – Computer tribe – Elastic processor Q. Guo, T. Chen, Y. Chen, Z. Zhou, W Hu, Z. Xu, Effective and Efficient Microprocessor Design Space Exploration Using Unlabeled Design Configurations, IJCAI 2011.
  • 19. Current chip design solutions • Has user definable microarchitecture that can be changed dynamically to adapt to applications’ requirements • 2 orders of magnitude improvement in power efficiency ASIC Hardwired solution GPP Software solution Elastic Processor Flexibility MOPS/mW FPGA Field and gate- level reconfiguratio n Elastic Processor Many US scientists are researching similar issues NSF Expedition project: Customizable Domain- Specific Computing www.cdsc.ucla.edu GreenDroid at UCSD Utilization wall Conservation cores IEEE Micro, 3/4 2011

Editor's Notes

  • #9: The European Future Emergent Technology (FET) initiative aims to funding at least 2 Flagships projects of information technology from 2013 to 2023, each with €1 billion.