Accelerated Software for a Post-Moore World

Sponsored Session: Lightning Talk: Accelerated Software for a Post-Moore World - Jay Dawani, Lemurian Labs Moore’s law has slowed while workloads grow and get more dynamic. Hardware is increasingly heterogeneous. The bottlenecks have shifted from compute to memory and networks. A kernel‑first model—optimizing one operator at a time—no longer delivers end‑to‑end gains. Local wins don’t add up, don’t transfer across devices, and fall over as shapes and schedules change. This talk makes the case for a new approach. Optimize at the system level. Treat the full workload, not a single kernel, as the unit of performance. Set clear objectives: throughput, latency, power, and cost, and demand predictable, portable results across different systems. We will explore where the current model fails on real workloads and what a system‑first mindset changes for framework design and everyday practice.