by Dimitris Gizopoulos on Dec 8, 2025 | Tags: AI accelerator, Microprocessor, Modeling, Reliability, Simulators
Microarchitecture simulators have been conceived and implemented to be valuable tools for the design of computing chips of all types (SimpleScalar, gem5, SMTSIM, Sniper, Qflex, Scarab, GPGPU-sim, Accel-Sim, Multi2Sim, NaviSim, SCALE-sim, gem5-Salam, TAO, PyTorchSim –...
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by David Patterson on Mar 5, 2025 | Tags: AI accelerator, AI hardware, Carbon emissions, Carbon footprint, Data center
“It’s not that easy bein’ green.” – Kermit the Frog, 1976 We likely just published the first paper to report the carbon footprint of manufacturing AI accelerators. This life-cycle assessment in a real-world setting found that hardware operation emits more...
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