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Computing at the edge is important in remote settings, however, conventional hardware is not optimized for utilizing deep neural networks. The Google Edge TPU is an emerging hardware accelerator that is cost, power and speed efficient, and…

Edge TPUs are a domain of accelerators for low-power, edge devices and are widely used in various Google products such as Coral and Pixel devices. In this paper, we first discuss the major microarchitectural details of Edge TPUs. Then, we…

This paper explores the performance of Google's Edge TPU on feed forward neural networks. We consider Edge TPU as a hardware platform and explore different architectures of deep neural network classifiers, which traditionally has been a…

Neural network (NN) accelerators have been integrated into a wide-spectrum of computer systems to accommodate the rapidly growing demands for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. NN accelerators share the…

Recent advancements in hardware accelerators such as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) speed up computation time relative to Central Processing Units (CPUs) not only for machine learning but, as demonstrated here, also for scientific modeling…

Many artificial intelligence (AI) devices have been developed to accelerate the training and inference of neural networks models. The most common ones are the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and Tensor Processing Unit (TPU). They are highly…

This whitepaper proposes the design and adoption of a new generation of Tensor Processing Unit which has the performance of Google's TPU, yet performs operations on wide precision data. The new generation TPU is made possible by…

Edge computing has emerged as a popular paradigm for supporting mobile and IoT applications with low latency or high bandwidth needs. The attractiveness of edge computing has been further enhanced due to the recent availability of…

This paper explores Google's Edge TPU for implementing a practical network intrusion detection system (NIDS) at the edge of IoT, based on a deep learning approach. While there are a significant number of related works that explore machine…

Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were developed by Google exclusively to support large-scale machine learning tasks. TPUs can, however, also be used to accelerate and scale up other computationally demanding tasks. In this paper we repurpose…

Tensor processing units (TPUs) are one of the most well-known machine learning (ML) accelerators utilized at large scale in data centers as well as in tiny ML applications. TPUs offer several improvements and advantages over conventional ML…

Accurate hardware performance models are critical to efficient code generation. They can be used by compilers to make heuristic decisions, by superoptimizers as a minimization objective, or by autotuners to find an optimal configuration for…

The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to a new generation of hardware accelerators optimized for deep learning. Some of the designs of these accelerators are general enough to allow their use for other…

Deep learning has become widely used in complex AI applications. Yet, training a deep neural network (DNNs) model requires a considerable amount of calculations, long running time, and much energy. Nowadays, many-core AI accelerators (e.g.,…

Improving the performance and reducing the cost of cloud data systems is increasingly challenging. Data processing units (DPUs) are a promising solution, but utilizing them for data processing needs characterizing the new hardware and…

Influenced by the great success of deep learning via cloud computing and the rapid development of edge chips, research in artificial intelligence (AI) has shifted to both of the computing paradigms, i.e., cloud computing and edge computing.…

Along with the rapid developments in communication technologies and the surge in the use of mobile devices, a brand-new computation paradigm, Edge Computing, is surging in popularity. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications are…

General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) computing plays a transformative role in deep learning and machine learning by leveraging the computational advantages of parallel processing. Through the power of Compute Unified Device…

Neural Processing Units (NPUs) are key to enabling efficient AI inference in resource-constrained edge environments. While peak tera operations per second (TOPS) is often used to gauge performance, it poorly reflects real-world performance…

In recent decades, High Performance Computing (HPC) has undergone significant enhancements, particularly in the realm of hardware platforms, aimed at delivering increased processing power while keeping power consumption within reasonable…