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With respect (I didn't downvote you), there is a workaround: sci-hub (I checked that it is available there). For others who want a comparison; the two papers a
by tanderson92 8y ago
With respect (I didn't downvote you), there is a workaround: sci-hub (I checked that it is available there).
For others who want a comparison; the two papers are very different: the Nature paper uses entirely analog techniques to achieve high precision results while the newly-linked article is a mixed-precision approach. That is, the newly-linked article only uses analog to obtain a low-precision estimate which is fed back to a digital computing algorithm to produce the final high-precision result. The hope is that the overall time to solution is still faster because you do not need (hopefully eventually slower) digital computation to achieve the low-accuracy result. I am not an expert in this particular hardware field (I do applied math so I am used to solving the problems they do here in digital computers), but here is what the authors of the Nature article say:
> Recent theoretical and experimental studies have used memristor (including phase-change memory) arrays to generate an initial, low-precision guess (seed), and rely on an integrated high-precision digital solver to produce the required high-precision solutions from the seed solution. Such types of accelerators are certainly beneficial, as they reduce the number of iterations required by the digital solver. Determining whether memristor-based hardware can be used to directly perform high-precision computing tasks, however, will enable a better understanding of how broadly memristive hardware can be applied. Such knowledge will help pave the way to build more general memristor-based computing platforms, instead of special-purpose accelerators.
- petermcneeley 8y agoI have done graduate computational physics (Multigrid and such) So im familiar with the "digital" side of this but certainly not familiar with almost any analog computations. (beyond those trivial op-amp integrators)
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