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Aren't machine learning workloads more variable than crypto mining? How would ASIC users cope with that?
by pcr0 9y ago
Aren't machine learning workloads more variable than crypto mining? How would ASIC users cope with that?
- matt4077 9y agoThe big advances in neural networks stem from the use of GPUs that are themselves less flexible than CPUs, but allow extremely good parallelisation of (some) linear algebra (mostly matrix multiplication). This seems like a logical next step, and it's probably similar to those "tensor processing units" of the newer Tesla chips and whatever Google's custom hardware was called.
- hetspookjee 9y agoGoogle indeed calls them Tensor Processing Units and NVIDIA used the name as well iirc, thus the birth of the TPU.