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Feeding The Datacenter Inference Beast A Heavy Diet Of FPGAs
Any workload that has a complex dataflow with intricate data needs and a requirement for low latency should probably at least consider an FPGA for the job. …
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Software Has To Lead Hardware In The AI Dance
A lot of the people who are working at the many AI chip startups have a long history in processor development in the datacenter, and that is certainly true of the folks who founded SambaNova Systems. …
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The Elegance (And Limitations) Of Precisely Engineered Accelerators
Let’s leave aside all the questions about the long-term viability of AI ASICs and appliances and focus instead on the beauty of a good architecture. …
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Avoiding The Missing Middle With AI
It is common knowledge in the manufacturing sector of the economy that many of the companies that should have deployed HPC simulation and modeling applications one or two decades ago to help with product design, among other tasks, did not do so. …
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What Could Stifle American AI Innovation?
There are many things the U.S. government can do, but innovating at a rapid pace in the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence is not necessarily one of them. …
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Where AI Might Fit in the Supercomputers of 2030
One reason we’re watching Lawrence Livermore National Lab closely is because they are at the forefront when it comes to blending emerging HPC, deep learning, and edge technologies for applications that are representative of what’s next. …
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The Next Wave Of AI Is Even Bigger
Artificial intelligence is a broad area, covering diverse fields such as image recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and robotics. …
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Changing Conditions for Neural Network Processing
Over the last few years the idea of “conditional computation” has been key to making neural network processing more efficient, even though much of the hardware ecosystem has focused on general purpose approaches that rely on matrix math operations that brute force the problem instead of selectively operate on only the required pieces. …
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Google Teaches AI To Play The Game Of Chip Design
If it wasn’t bad enough that Moore’s Law improvements in the density and cost of transistors is slowing. …
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Full Agenda for The Next AI Platform: 2020 Edition
UPDATE: Due to the inability to travel we will be hosting this remotely on June 25, 2020. …