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The Human Processing Unit (HPU) as a New Approx...

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March 24, 2016
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The Human Processing Unit (HPU) as a New Approximate Computing Substrate

WAX 2016 co-located with ASPLOS 2016

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March 24, 2016

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Transcript

  1. 1 WAX 2016 The Human Processing Unit (HPU) as a

    New Approximate Computing Substrate Yuhao Zhu UT Austin with Matt Lease, Matthew Halpern, and Vijay Janapa Reddi

  2. Computing Device

  3. Computing Device Problem Image Compression Edge Detection

  4. Computing Device Problem Image Compression Edge Detection Algorithm / Application

    JPEG 2000 Sobel

  5. Computing Device Problem Algorithm / Application HPU

  6. Computing Device Problem Algorithm / Application HPU What approximate problems

    can be mapped to HPUs?

  7. Computing Device Problem Algorithm / Application HPU What approximate problems

    can be mapped to HPUs? How do we program HPUs while ensuring quality?

  8. Computing Device Problem Algorithm / Application What approximate problems can

    be mapped to HPUs? How do we program HPUs while ensuring quality?