by Di Wu, Zhewen Pan, Joshua San Miguel on May 13, 2026 | Tags: AI hardware, Parallelism
TL;DR: The history of parallel computing is a history of shifting what we put at the center of the computer. The first axis, control-level parallelism (CLP), is control-centric and schedules around the program counter: it gave us the high-performance computing (HPC)...
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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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