Over the past decade, much of the focus with machine learning has been on CPUs and accelerators, primarily GPUs but also custom ASICs, with advances in the chip architecture aimed at boosting parallel math performance. …
Like many system architects the world over, we had high hopes for the 3D XPoint variant of phase change memory (PCM) when it launched with much fanfare back in July 2015 after being developed jointly by Intel and Micron Technology for many, many years. …
The memory and I/O wall are arguably the two most intractable bottlenecks in the modern datacenter. …
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