Thriving in the Margins of Compute
The future of computing is not exclusively defined by massive data centers or
unbounded processing power. For both global computing infrastructure and critical
remote operations, the most vital tasks often occur under extreme constraints. This
year's Low Resource Computing (LRC) conference challenges the assumption that more
compute is always better.
We are focusing on Actionable Modernization: the art of elevating legacy, inflexible,
and limited-compuet hardware through brilliant architectural workarounds. By exploring
concepts ranging from century-long hardware lifespans to the resurrection of highly
optimized historical programming paradigms, we invite the community to discover how
extreme resource constraints breed unprecedented innovation and robust system design.
LRC is a chance to revisit computing with resource constraints. In an era with
exascale machines, half-gigawatt data centers, and billion dollar clusters built with
nanometer processes, meaningful and essential computation remains practical running
thousands of operations per second with nanowatts of electricity, on tens of cents, in
hundreds of microns.
This is is an opportunity to rediscover the potential of everything from legacy
silicon to the latest processing architecture. In between, we'll visit the realm of
'virtual' low-resource computing finding and fielding weird machines in unexpected
places.