@MISC{Hartenstein_walland, author = {Reiner Hartenstein and Tu Kaiserslautern}, title = {Wall and Education}, year = {} }
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Arthur Schopenhauer: “Approximately every 30 years, we declare the scientific, literary and artistic spirit of the age bankrupt. In time, the accumulation of errors collapses under the absurdity of its own weight.” RH: “Mesmerized by the Gordon Moore Curve, we in CS slowed down our learning curve. Finally, after 60 years, we are witnessing the spirit from the Mainframe Age collapsing under the von Neumann syndrome.” Because of high energy consumption our computer-based infrastructure may become unaffordable- without reinventing the entire computing discipline, also due to cope with the manycore programming crisis. The paper highlights facts, trends, and a roadmap to by-pass this crisis and to reach new horizons. The term von Neumann syndrome has been coined by C. V. Ramamoorthy in reply to my talk at San Diego [1]. Most problems are caused by the Energy Wall, the Memory Wall, and the Education Wall. Still main focus point of CS education, the von Neumann (vN) Energy Wall, Memory basic common model [2] lost its dominance decades ago [3], also