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durst
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About durst
personal website: https://davidbdurst.com/ blog: https://davidbdurst.com/blog/
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I don't think this is entirely true. (Although please let me know if I misunderstood your comment or if I'm wrong.) While it is true that CPUs' power usage increased significantly …
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Comment #26910235
Thank you for the tips! Whenever I hear about new accelerators, my first question is: "how do people in the real world run fast code on this"? Because (related to your above points…
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Comment #26909656
Do you have a longer writeup on your experience performance tuning for the TPU? Is https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/performance-guide the best resource in this area?
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Comment #26909180
The article states that the programming model is TensorFlow or PyTorch. However, I'm not clear on the details of customizing TensorFlow or PyTorch code to run efficiently on this c…
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Comment #26908407
Does anyone here have firsthand experience using the compiler? Can you give a rough approximation of performance tuning with the compiler compared to performance tuning with compil…
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Comment #26278971
The closest I came to an SGI machine was an N64, so I would be interested in hearing the stories. What did consolidating the SGI boards get you? Didn't that cause thermal issues? A…
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Comment #26266844
Very cool! Did others in the company appreciate the benefits of repairable hardware? Also, $50,000 sounds like a lot of money. Was that price considered giving it away?
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