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yaantc
·hace 28 días·discuss
Yes, ranking requires reducing to a single dimension where all interesting things are multi-dimensions. This is a lossy process, which often tells more about the one(s) doing the ranking than what's ranked.
yaantc
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Profession as sibling said, available here: https://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html

The wikipedia entry also has link to the text but the above is nicer IMHO, just the raw text. From a previous HN discussion some weeks ago!
yaantc
·hace 8 meses·discuss
I'm sorry I won't share much details, I don't think much is public on Vsora architecture and don't want to breach any NDA...

From their web page Euclyd is a "many small cores" accelerator. Doing good compilation toolchains for these to get efficient results is a hard problem, see many comments on compilers for AI in this thread.

Vsora approach is much more macroscopic, and differentiated. By this I mean I don't know anything quite like it. No sea of small cores, but several more beefy units. They're programmable, but don't look like a CPU: the HW/SW interface is at a higher level. A very hand-wavy analogy with storage would be block devices vs object storage, maybe. I'm sure more details will surface when real HW arrive.
yaantc
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Very simplified, AI workloads need compute and communications and compute dominates inference, while communications dominate training.

Most start-ups innovate on the compute side, whereas the techno needed for state of the art communications is not common, and very low-level: plenty of analog concerns. The domain is dominated by NVidia and Broadcom today.

This is why digital start-ups tend to focus on inference. They innovate on the pure digital part, which is compute, and tend to use off-the-shelf IPs for communications, so not a differentiator and likely below the leaders.

But in most cases coupling a computation engine marketed for inference with state of the art communications would (in theory) open the way for training too. It's just that doing both together is a very high barrier. It's more practical to start with compute, and if successful there use this to improve the comms part in a second stage. All the more because everyone expects inference to be the biggest market too. So AI start-ups focus on inference first.