Impact of Emerging Computing Architectures and Opportunities for Process Systems Engineering Applications

Moore’s “law” was the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubled approximately every two
years. This trend has distinctly failed to hold in recent years. The death of Moore’s law has left researchers and practitioners in the computational sciences searching for technologies to provide the speedups formerly supported by Moore’s law.
Previously overlooked chip architectures and other computing technologies are now receiving more development resources.
Critically, these technologies are gaining more mature software support, opening their adoption by researchers in algorithms
and applications. In this article, we review some of these computing technologies, their relationship with various algorithms
and applications, and their potential benefits (or pitfalls). We close with recommendations for future work by the process
systems engineering community specifically.