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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) by dnautics on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:02AM (#13743116)
Yossi, do you think there's a market for special matrix mult machines that use low-precision FP, maybe as a systolic array?
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Re:The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008) by _yosefk on Monday February 27, 2017 @05:37AM (#13743267)
This is OT, but - most of linear algebra dies quickly even in single precision, meaning that your equation system solver produces a solution that doesn't really solve these equations, etc. One exception is neural networks where Google's TPU is just the start and in general GPUs while beating CPUs leave a lot of room for improvement.
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