by Ananth Krishna Prasad and Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi on May 7, 2021 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Machine Learning, Optical
In a previous blog post, we summarized some advances in optical computing that enable the implementation of low-energy optical-convolutional layers using phase masks and angle-sensitive pixels. Such approaches also present multiple challenges, such as lack of...
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by Natalie Enright Jerger on Nov 9, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Chiplets, Emerging Technology, Networking
[Editor’s Note: I’m very happy to announce that Christina Delimitrou of Cornell University will be serving as the blog’s Associate Editor. Thank you, Vijay Janapa Reddi, for your amazing service in this role for the last three years!] Chip vendors...
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by Bill Fefferman and Fred Chong on Feb 11, 2020 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Quantum Computing
Much of the recent explosion in interest in quantum computing has been driven by the arrival of the “Near-term Intermediate Scale Quantum” era (abbreviated “NISQ”), in which several experimental groups in academic and industrial labs are now able to implement quantum...
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by Mark D. Hill on Jan 8, 2020 | Tags: Accelerators, Distributed Systems, Emerging Technology, Software Stack
Due to technology challenges and potential societal benefits, NSF has provided sustained funding for issues surrounding effective scaling of parallel and distributed computing, including through the Exploiting Parallelism and Scalability(XPS) Program, begun in 2012,...
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by Sarita V. Adve, Ratislav Bodik, Luis Ceze on Dec 18, 2019 | Tags: Accelerators, Emerging Technology, Software Stack, Systems
We are pleased to share the results of a DARPA ISAT study, I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution, arguing for new hardware/software interfaces to enable the revolution promised by hardware specialization. Advances in hardware specialization...
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