The eProcessor vector accelerator design supports the IEEE754 double (64-bit) and single (32-bit) precision formats (FP64/32), the 16-bit “brain floating-point” format (BF16), and two different 8-bit format, 1-4-3 and 1-5-2, referred to as “Hybrid 8-bit Floating Point” (HFP8). While the wider formats are appropriate for the traditional scientific applications, small precision floating point formats are gaining interest for AI computing […]

In today’s high performance computer systems and particularly the more resource-intensive ones, like servers, the I/O transactions that read data from a hard disk or a network card, constitute a significant part of the overall workload, making them an essential part for a successful system in terms of performance. Most of today’s peripheral devices bypass the processor to minimize the […]

Multi-core processors have become ubiquitous across domains ranging from embedded systems to data centers because of their ability to facilitate energy-efficient high performance computing. The architecture of a typical multi-core processor mainly comprises cores that are the computational workhorses, caches that act as buffers to reduce access latency to memory and an interconnection network that connects all the on chip […]