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Can somebody explain this to me? Unlike a scalar CPU or a vector GPU, the Graphcore Intelligent Processing Unit (IPU) is a graph processor. Is this just marke
by zebrafish 10y ago
Can somebody explain this to me?
Unlike a scalar CPU or a vector GPU, the Graphcore Intelligent Processing Unit (IPU) is a graph processor.
Is this just marketing mumbo-jumbo? I don't understand how a "graph processor" would look any different than a vector processor.
- posterboy 10y agoa gpu is optimized for 2 and 3d, graphs might represent higher topologies?
- deepnotderp 10y agoFounder of a different deep learning chip startup here. They're talking about deep learning's computational graphs. The only differences between that and a general purpose program graph is that a) the (general) absence of control flow and b)the operations are all arithmetic and generally predictably so. So basically yeah, it's marketing.