no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Amirali Boroumand, Saugata Ghose, Berkin Akin, Ravi Narayanaswami, Geraldo F. Oliveira, Xiaoyu Ma, Eric Shiu, Onur Mutlu
To understand how edge ML accelerators perform, we characterize the performance of a commercial Google Edge TPU, using 24 Google edge NN models (which span a wide range of NN model types) and analyzing each NN layer within each model.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2021 • Amirali Boroumand, Saugata Ghose, Berkin Akin, Ravi Narayanaswami, Geraldo F. Oliveira, Xiaoyu Ma, Eric Shiu, Onur Mutlu
We comprehensively study the characteristics of each NN layer in all of the Google edge models, and find that these shortcomings arise from the one-size-fits-all approach of the accelerator, as there is a high amount of heterogeneity in key layer characteristics both across different models and across different layers in the same model.
1 code implementation • 20 Feb 2021 • Kiran Seshadri, Berkin Akin, James Laudon, Ravi Narayanaswami, Amir Yazdanbakhsh
Then, we extensively evaluate three classes of Edge TPUs, covering different computing ecosystems, that are either currently deployed in Google products or are the product pipeline, across 423K unique convolutional neural networks.
no code implementations • 17 Feb 2021 • Yanqi Zhou, Xuanyi Dong, Berkin Akin, Mingxing Tan, Daiyi Peng, Tianjian Meng, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Da Huang, Ravi Narayanaswami, James Laudon
In our work, we target the optimization of hardware and software configurations on an industry-standard edge accelerator.
no code implementations • 2 Feb 2021 • Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Christof Angermueller, Berkin Akin, Yanqi Zhou, Albin Jones, Milad Hashemi, Kevin Swersky, Satrajit Chatterjee, Ravi Narayanaswami, James Laudon
We further show that by transferring knowledge between target architectures with different design constraints, Apollo is able to find optimal configurations faster and often with better objective value (up to 25% improvements).
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2017 • Norman P. Jouppi, Cliff Young, Nishant Patil, David Patterson, Gaurav Agrawal, Raminder Bajwa, Sarah Bates, Suresh Bhatia, Nan Boden, Al Borchers, Rick Boyle, Pierre-luc Cantin, Clifford Chao, Chris Clark, Jeremy Coriell, Mike Daley, Matt Dau, Jeffrey Dean, Ben Gelb, Tara Vazir Ghaemmaghami, Rajendra Gottipati, William Gulland, Robert Hagmann, C. Richard Ho, Doug Hogberg, John Hu, Robert Hundt, Dan Hurt, Julian Ibarz, Aaron Jaffey, Alek Jaworski, Alexander Kaplan, Harshit Khaitan, Andy Koch, Naveen Kumar, Steve Lacy, James Laudon, James Law, Diemthu Le, Chris Leary, Zhuyuan Liu, Kyle Lucke, Alan Lundin, Gordon MacKean, Adriana Maggiore, Maire Mahony, Kieran Miller, Rahul Nagarajan, Ravi Narayanaswami, Ray Ni, Kathy Nix, Thomas Norrie, Mark Omernick, Narayana Penukonda, Andy Phelps, Jonathan Ross, Matt Ross, Amir Salek, Emad Samadiani, Chris Severn, Gregory Sizikov, Matthew Snelham, Jed Souter, Dan Steinberg, Andy Swing, Mercedes Tan, Gregory Thorson, Bo Tian, Horia Toma, Erick Tuttle, Vijay Vasudevan, Richard Walter, Walter Wang, Eric Wilcox, Doe Hyun Yoon
Our workload, written in the high-level TensorFlow framework, uses production NN applications (MLPs, CNNs, and LSTMs) that represent 95% of our datacenters' NN inference demand.