Re:Demystifying NPUs: Questions and Answers
by xcv123 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @09:25PM
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You're right that GPU is a misnomer these days. The top-end chips are for HPC and scientific computing in general. Good for training, inference, and non-AI applications such as molecular dynamics simulations. They can accelerate FFT and linear solvers. Their applications are broader than AI/ML. Useful for physics simulations.
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Re:Demystifying NPUs: Questions and Answers
by aragilar on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @06:07AM
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Depends on the chips, I've been hearing from people that NVidia ones (due to various changes in design which preference low-precision over high precision) are becoming more and more useless for traditional HPC, and so there's a move on to switch to AMD (noting that the software side of AMD is still not good). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40655965 suggests Apple's hardware would have similar issues.