Florian Zaruba

@ ETH Zurich. Zurich based Austrian expat. He/him.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

There is an alternate reality where Cray took their vector supercomputers, ditched FP64 calculations, and went with one FP32 pipe and a BF16 tensor core pipe. The same instruction set, memory architecture, and vector registers would have made a sweet deep learning machine, in many ways nicer than SIMT CUDA programming on GPUs. A Y-MP class machine like that could have delivered the AlexNet and DQN moments two decades earlier.

Even doing everything in FP64 with no architectural changes, a Cray-1 would have been the best machine in the world for neural networks. If @geoffreyhinton had access to one for early research, the case could have been made for the architectural modifications to 10x the performance.

[RISC-V International @risc_v]

🌟We have had an amazing time at #RISCVSummitEurope so far! Watch #RISCV Ambassador @FlorianWoh's #recap video, highlighting a few of the incredible Summit announcements, sessions, and activities. We can't wait to see everyone for another packed day tomorrow! #RISCVeverywhere

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@pulp_platform @suehtamacv Many congratulations @suehtamacv! 🎊

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@mark_mcgookin @pulp_platform @lucasteske Doom for sure! Crysis is the new benchmark 😅 Occamy should be a new target for the unreal engine

[PULP Platform @pulp_platform]

In order to put to rest incorrect information that recently appeared on social media and several more prominent websites, we have published a summary of our project Occamy: https://t.co/GMps7YYIcB

[Flo @FlorianWoh]

Cool @AxeleraAI booth at #ew23 looks great.
#AI made in Europe
And they use #RISCV in some chips
Greetings to the #RISCVambassador @be4web

[Axelera AI @AxeleraAI]

We’re thrilled to share that we have closed our $27million Series A and are ready to launch our AI acceleration platform in early 2023! https://t.co/5PGK6KfUjj

#deeptech #ai #ml #edgeai

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@pulp_platform That’s amazing 😍! Looking at the etron homepage I think you are on the path for the smallest Linux-booting RISC-V system. Looking forward to first alive terminal pictures!

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

Wow, congratulations to the entire team, this is such an incredible achievement!

[PULP Platform @pulp_platform]

Here is Occamy: 216 Snitch cores, an HBM controller in GF12LPP, designed as a chiplet. Enough said 😇🦉. This work wouldn't be possible without the generous support of @GlobalFoundries and @rambusinc. https://t.co/mdsCEhAD8y

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@pulp_platform Looking forward to the floorplan and die-shot on https://t.co/rCoY7USLGo 😍!

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@pulp_platform @mazzergio @ampereproject The new template also fits the NVIDIA colors very well! Superb job 👌

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

Obviously proud!

[Andreas Schilling 🇺🇦 @aschilling]

Found another chip that is manufactured in Intel 4. This is a 8-core RISC-V (RV64GC) CPU with compute near LLC called Vela.

- 64 kB SRAM for each core
- 512 kB shared LLC
- the silicon is just 1,92 mm² (1,939 x 0,991 mm)

[Enjoy Digital @enjoy_digital]

Hello (ex) @pulp_platform's Ariane/@openhwgroup's CVA6!

Thanks to Massimiliano.G's LiteX port, it's possible to regain some freedom:
- No longer restricted to Xilinx/Genesys2/MIG.
- New peripherals to play with :)
- 100% open-source SoC!
- ...
Try it: litex_sim --cpu-type=cva6

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@bilalzafar @LucaBeniniZhFe @pulp_platform @niwist And I would make sure from the beginning that large state holding elements (e.g., predictors) could be implemented as SRAMs, so can cope with at least one cycle latency

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@bilalzafar @LucaBeniniZhFe @pulp_platform @niwist I would group functional units into fixed latency (alu, fp, etc.) and variable latency (lsu, div). For the fixed latency you can be more lean and clever about your implementation because you know exactly when the result will be produced. While in Ariane everything is handshaked

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@bilalzafar @LucaBeniniZhFe @pulp_platform @niwist It’s only purpose is to flush the different stages 😉 but that might be the pain point of @LucaBeniniZhFe 😅

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@pulp_platform I ❤️ the logo!

[Luca Benini @LucaBeniniZhFe]

This is great! That's what I am talking about when I push for open hardware!! Avalanche effect 🚀😎

[Florian Zaruba @be4web]

@_O_N_LANG__ Hey! As of now we manage everything via GitHub (issues). We are happy to help out there! We don’t (yet) have any instant messaging for the public 😕