Archive of posts tagged: Accelerators
The Different Facets of Large-Scale GPU Cluster Scheduling for ML Jobs
Machine Learning (ML) training is an important workload in enterprise clusters and cloud data centers today. Products like virtual assistants, chatbots, and web search which are an integral part of our life now, are empowered by the innovations in ML and AI research....
Drop Whatever You’re Researching and Start Working on Crypto!
INTEL LAUNCHES NEW BITCOIN MINING CHIP, BLOCKSCALE Intel’s new bitcoin mining chip, the Intel Blockscale ASIC, will ship in Q3 2022 to select customers. (Bitcoin Magazine, April 2022) STOP! Before you read even one more sentence of this article: if you are currently...
From Application Specific to General Purpose (Again)
With Dennard scaling discontinued, application-specific hardware accelerators are ubiquitous in modern computers to offer more efficient task processing. Famous examples include Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) and Apple’s Neural Engines for...
Algorithm Evolution and Hardware Acceleration of Graph Mining
Graphs have long been treated as a challenging data type in the system and architecture community, due to excessive random accesses from the irregular graph structures and significant load imbalance from the power-law degree distribution. Beyond traditional graph...Subscribe
