A paradigm shift in virtual memory use: Midgard
Researchers at Ecocloud, the EPFL Center for Sustainable Cloud Computing, have pioneered an innovative approach to implementing virtual memory in […]
Google Scholarship for EcoCloud researcher Simla Burcu Harma
Simla Burcu Harma, a researcher on the ColTrain project, has received the Generation Google Scholarship for Women in Computer Science. @SimlaBurcu
ColTraIn Releases Open-source HBFP Training Emulator
DNN training and inference have similar basic operators but with fundamentally different requirements. The former is throughput bound and relies on high precision floating-point arithmetic for convergence while the latter is latency-bound and tolerant to low-precision arithmetic. Both workloads require high computational capabilities and can benefit from hardware accelerators. The disparity in resource requirements forces datacenter operators to choose between custom accelerators for training and inference or training accelerators for inference.