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A Brief Guide of xPU for AI Accelerators

ACM Sigarch

Dataflow Processing Unit (DPU) is the product of Wave Computing, a Silicon Valley company which is revolutionizing artificial intelligence and deep learning with its dataflow-based solutions. HPU: Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) is the specific hardware of Microsoft’s Hololens. GPU can also be considered as a special SPU.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. And then there was the other problem: for all the fanfare, Hadoop was really large-scale business intelligence (BI). ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012.