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Hardware Accelerators

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Paper2011

Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Emily Blem, Renee St. Amant, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam & Doug Burger

Projects that power limits will soon force chips to leave much of their silicon idle at any moment, making specialised accelerators rather than more general cores the only way to keep gaining performance.

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Paper2017

In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit

Norman P. Jouppi et al.

Reports that a custom ASIC built around a systolic array outperformed contemporary CPUs and GPUs on production machine-learning inference by an order of magnitude in performance per watt.

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Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling

In-Datacenter Performance Analysis of a Tensor Processing Unit

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