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yaantc
·28 dni temu·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
·5 miesięcy temu·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
·8 miesięcy temu·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
·8 miesięcy temu·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.