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Convolution Engine: Balancing Efficiency & Flexibility in Specialized Computing
This paper focuses on the trade-off between flexibility and efficiency in specialized computing. We observe that specialized units …
Wajahat Qadeer, Rehan Hameed, Ofer Shacham, Preethi Venkatesan, Christos Kozyrakis, Mark A. Horowitz
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Understanding Sources of Inefficiency in General-Purpose Chips
Due to their high volume, general-purpose processors, and now chip multiprocessors (CMPs), are much more cost effective than ASICs, but …
Rehan Hameed, Wajahat Qadeer, Megan Wachs, Omid Azizi, Alex Solomatnikov, Benjamin C. Lee, Stephen Richardson, Christos Kozyrakis, Mark Horowitz
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