Please note the venue has changed to the Hilton London Euston, 17-18 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0HT. This venue is a 10 minute walk from Kings Cross train station.
The energy costs of AI & data processing are spiralling
unsustainably, and are predicted to reach 20.9% of global energy production by
2030. Training Chat-GPT 3 generated an estimated carbon footprint of 550 tons
of CO2, & the training cost of a cutting-edge machine learning model is
doubling around every 3.4 months.
This exponentially growing demand for energy represents a real
threat to a zero-carbon future, and is caused in large part by inefficiencies
in Von Neumann architecture CMOS hardware.
The maths powering modern neural network software are derived from
physical models invented to describe ‘spin glasses’, strongly-interacting
magnetic arrays. From the inception of neural nets, there has been a desire to
‘cut out the middleman’ of CMOS-hosted simulation and implement neuromorphic
computation directly in physical magnetic systems, with the heavy-lifting of
computing the massively-parallel interactions and energy minimisation offloaded
onto the intrinsic system physics at zero energy cost - netting massive energy
savings & new functionality.
Finally, this vision has come of age & research groups
internationally are working on fresh, diverse approaches to implement AI &
neuromorphic computing directly in magnetic hardware, with the potential to
reduce the future energy & carbon footprint of AI. Magnetic systems have
much to offer to the young field of neuromorphic computing, from skyrmions,
spintronic oscillators & spin waves to artificial spin ices.
With this meeting we hope to provide a forum for the exchange and
discussion of fresh approaches on how to marry dynamic magnetic systems with
the complex demands of tomorrow’s computing. This workshop will bring together
groups across magnetism for tutorials, talks & a collaborative sharing of
ideas.
Our workshop programme consists of invited & submitted talks and a poster session. Three talk & poster prizes are on offer, kindly sponsored by Quantum Design UK, Qnami and IOP Neuromorphic Computing & Engineering Invited speakers for the workshop are:
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