Next Generation Computing at RWTH Aachen University
Scientists all over the world are researching major global challenges such as climate change, healthcare, energy and mobility transformation. To develop solutions with the help of big data and artificial intelligence, the current computing structures based on the Von Neumann architecture, which was developed in 1945, are reaching their limits. To move forward, more powerful and energy-efficient computers are needed. They require new materials, technologies, methods, hardware and software that are characterized by speed, miniaturization, performance, trustworthiness and resource efficiency.
RWTH Aachen University (RWTH) is working to understand computing principles, translate them into engineering systems for specific applications and achieve technological sovereignty. The RWTH vision of “Next Generation Computing” looks at this technological aspect in a larger context and considers societal and sustainability issues of computing: